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Microsoft notified it’s corporate partners last week that the system integrator portal used to downgrade Windows 7 Pro / Ultimate to Windows XP Pro will be taken down after Friday, October 22nd. This means that Source Code will no longer be able to provide downgrade keys as a courtesy to Read more…

By Ed Oswald | Published September 1, 2010 Betanews.com …Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it would be bringing back its Windows 7 Family Pack discount program. The offer gives multi-computer households the opportunity to upgrade three PCs to Windows 7 Home Premium. The deal is available beginning October 3 at Read more…

August 24th, 2010, 15:32 GMT| By Marius Oiaga …15 years after an immensely successful platform was launched, the Redmond company now owns the fastest selling operating system in history. Windows 7 licenses are being sold at a rate of more than 7 copies per second, with 175 million copies of Read more…

By Ian Matthews I have seen Office 2000, 2003 and now in 2007 in Word and Excel open “blank” several times over the years.  If you have this problem there are four ways to view the data in the file you openned: Click VIEW, then select FULL SCREEN.  All other views show Read more…

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By Tim Conneally | BetaNews.com Published August 19, 2010, 10:44 AM Intel Corporation Thursday morning announced that it will acquire security software and management company McAfee Inc. for $7.68 billion in cash. Intel says the move reflects the changing security climate as more non-PC devices connect to the Internet, like cars, Read more…

By Ed Oswald | BETANEWS Published August 19, 2010, 3:31 PM …Toshiba said Wednesday that it had made a breakthrough in hard disk design that will allow hard drives to have much higher capacities than what is currently possible today. The research is in something called bit-patterned media, a magnetic Read more…

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The Name: I guess the machine only works 3 out of 4 weeks! No USB: Absoultely inexcusable that Apple is still trying to screw their customers with proprietary peripherals. If I could drop a USB keyboard into it, it might be useful. No Flash: Other than through the use of Read more…

http://prosecure.netgear.com/community/security-blog/2009/11/web-browser-vulnerability-report—firefox-leads-the-pack-at-44.php A recent report by Web application security vendor Cenzic pointed out that in the first half of 2009 Firefox totaled for 44% of all vulnerabilities amongst popular Web browsers. Also somewhat surprising is Safari coming in at 35% due to iPhone Safari vulnerabilities (that’s another story in itself). IE Read more…

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-7-mac-osx-apple,9159.html …The interesting stat, however, was that Windows 7 usage surpassed all versions of Mac OS X combined…

I have just started playing with Word 2010 and found some nice minor improvements. The most notable is that the Office Button, which confused most 2007 users, has been correctly replaced with the “FILE” menu drop down list. This is my first test of the new BLOGGING interface. I use Read more…

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Windows-Laptop-Internet-hotspot-Connectify,8971.html#xtor=RSS-181 Home Connectify takes control of Windows 7’s Virtual Wi-Fi feature and turns the laptop into a hotspot. PC Advisor reports that Philadelphia developer Nomadio has discovered an unfinished Windows 7 feature (Virtual Wi-Fi) that can turn a laptop into a Wi-Fi hotspot. That means other devices in the near Read more…