The simple answer is that Windows 7 just works.
You may have noticed that in the past six months the only post I wrote specifically about Microsoft Windows or a Windows-specific application was Windows 8 – Why do they call it Windows? I still use Windows 7 on a daily basis. Contrary to [...]
Windows 8 – Why do they call it Windows?
On 2011/09/16
Microsoft released the Windows 8 Developer Preview download shortly after they started their 2011 Build Conference in Anaheim, CA. I downloaded and installed it to see what’s cooking.
Windows 8 is a radical departure from earlier versions of Windows. The user interface (UI) has been reimagined as a touchscreen UI. It is [...]
Why I am abandoning Windows and you will too
On 2011/03/16
Microsoft recently released the final version of Window 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Thus far, my experience in updating 8 machines is: 2 succeeded, 5 failed, and one “succeeded” by force. This last one is my main Windows machine. It failed to install SP1 using Windows Update. SP1 installed when I used the [...]
Microsoft Mice and Apple Fingers
On 2010/06/03
Use a finger or use your whole hand: this is the basic difference between Apple and Microsoft. I bet Steve Jobs excelled at finger painting in kindergarten and that Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s current CEO, and Bill Gates, Microsoft’s founder, did not. This is why Apple succeeds with the iPod, iPhone and iPad, and is an [...]
Should you upgrade to Microsoft Office 2010?
On 2010/05/13
Office 2010 is here. Large Microsoft customers can buy it now. Consumers or smaller businesses will be able to buy it June 15.
I have a fair amount of experience with it as I have used different versions of Office 2010 for over a year now. I like it. [...]
Microsoft Office 2010 Quick Access Toolbar – quick tips
On 2010/05/08
When Microsoft introduced the Ribbon in Office 2007 they took away our ability to easily customize the menus and toolbars that existed in previous versions of Office. Microsoft added the Quick Access Toolbar, a weak replacement for that lost customization.
The Quick Access Toolbar (“QAT”) lets you place [...]
Microsoft Office 2010 is social in an unexpected way
On 2010/04/24
I installed the final version of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 on my main Windows 7 rig this week. It will be released to the general public in June 2010. I had been using the beta before this. The final version installed with a bit a difficulty. I first had to uninstall the beta and [...]
File extensions are important and useful. These are the characters that follow the final period in the file name. They are usually 3 or 4 characters long. They tell an operating system whether or not a file is an application, like Excel.exe, or the file’s associated application. The EXE extension tells Windows that the file [...]
Windows 7 is here, there, everywhere
On 2009/10/22
It took Microsoft 24 years but today they release a version of Windows that is the best client operating system they have ever sold. The UI/UX (User Interface/User Experience) is a big improvement over Windows Vista and XP. I believe that Microsoft Windows 7 surpasses Mac Snow Leopard in many ways particularly in the [...]
Windows Genuine Advantage still sucks
On 2009/10/05
I just sent the following comment to the Microsoft employee, Alex Kochis, Director, Genuine Windows, responsible for the Windows Genuine Advantage program. (It should be named Windows Genuine Pain-in-the-ass Program.)
I am a TechNet member and a Microsoft Partner. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate RTM (64bit). Windows 7 reports that "Windows has been [...]
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