Apr 6, 2007 | computers, Vista
Walter Mossberg is an influential tech columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Today’s column is a well-justified complaint about the process of setting up a new computer.Mossberg is moderately complimentary about Windows Vista; although the most time-consuming...
Mar 14, 2007 | computers, Office, software, WinXP
I recently reformatted a hard drive and reinstalled Windows XP from scratch, using a CD for Windows that included Service Pack 2.The next step was to download the patches and updates released since Service Pack 2 – almost a hundred of them, almost two hundred...
Feb 16, 2007 | computers, hardware, Home_Server, Microsoft, network
Here’s a review of a beta release of Microsoft Windows Home Server, which continues to look like a genuinely exciting advance for home computing. Here are my earlier thoughts on the preview at the Consumer Electronics show last month.When it is final, most of us...
Jan 23, 2007 | computers, Vista, WinXP
The first thing I do with any new computer is uninstall most of the applications bundled by the computer manufacturer. Microsoft reps at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show said that PC makers are undermining the quality and reputation of Windows by including so many...
Jan 7, 2007 | computers, hardware, Home_Server, Microsoft
Microsoft is taking the wraps off “Windows Home Server” today at a trade show. The first details are just coming out from people freed from their nondisclosure agreements. Here’s Microsoft’s first public web site for Home Server. I’m...
Nov 21, 2006 | computers, WinXP
A few years ago, we routinely got 256Mb of RAM for our new Windows XP computers. Memory was expensive and 256Mb was sufficient to run Windows XP, an antivirus program, an e-mail program, and another application at a decent speed with a minimum of hard drive...
