BRUCEB NEWS
Your Credit Card Was Not Used To Buy An Inflatable Motorcycle
Someday soon your email will have a receipt for something you didn’t buy. It will be matter of fact and bland but you’re pretty sure your wife would have mentioned it if she had bought, say, a pair of Luis Vuitton sneakers, so the email receipt stands out. You’re...
SOLID-STATE DRIVES
A few days ago I said that there hadn’t been any profound changes in computer hardware for a while. That’s true, but there’s a change on the horizon that might affect things...
R.I.P. COMPUSERVE
Does your technology memory extend back to the 80s? If so, you may shed a nostalgic tear at the news that the last remnants of CompuServe have been shut down by its current...
MICROSOFT ONLINE SERVICES & PASSWORDS
I’m supporting several businesses using Microsoft Online Services to host their Outlook mailboxes. It’s been very satisfying in almost every way. For a small monthly subscription...
ONECARE SUBSCRIPTION EXTENSIONS
If you have a subscription to Windows Live OneCare, you are covered until the choices for security software are more clear towards the end of 2009. Keep using OneCare. Your...
WINDOWS 7 – UPGRADE POSTSCRIPT
Starting now, you can buy a new computer with Vista and get a free upgrade to Windows 7 when it’s released in late October. Here are the details of Dell’s offer, for example. It...
WINDOWS 7 – UPGRADES
Pretty tempting, eh? For the next ten days or so, you can pre-order Windows 7 Home Premium upgrades for fifty bucks, or Windows 7 Professional for a hundred bucks. It’s a really...
WINDOWS 7 – BACKGROUND
Windows 7 is coming. It’s been almost eight years since Windows XP was released, and we’ve spent more than 2 1/2 years with Vista already. New details are appearing daily about...
BACK TO WORK
Thank you for your patience! I’m back at my desk now. I won’t desert you again, I promise.
ACROBAT.COM PAID ACCOUNTS
There will be some new experiments with subscription fees for online services, after the last few years when it seemed everything online would always be free or could be financed...
LIFE IN PARADISE
There’s nothing more exciting than finding out how someone else’s vacation is going, right? Quite nicely, thank you! (Family and friends can find more photos here.)
MICROSOFT SECURITY ESSENTIALS
On June 23, Microsoft will release a beta version of Microsoft Security Essentials, the free antivirus program that is replacing Windows Live OneCare. Microsoft is now allowing...
BEHIND THE SCENES: DATA CENTERS
I love occasional glimpses behind the scenes. In The Wizard of Oz, I would have been Toto, pulling back the curtain to figure out what was running the big head. The New York...
MICROSOFT DISCONTINUES MS MONEY
Have you noticed the collapse in the market for boxed software? We used to go to Best Buy or Staples or Costco and buy the latest programs in boxes. The only time we do that now...
FIRST INFORMATION ABOUT MICROSOFT ANTIVIRUS
Windows Live OneCare will be completely off the market at the end of June (although Microsoft will continue to issue virus definition updates for another year). When Microsoft...
BRUCEB ON VACATION JUNE 13-25
I’ll be out of the state from June 13 through June 25.I’ll be answering the phone, responding to emails, and working with you remotely, just like always. But I’ll be slow to...