Say ‘Ninite’ to software reinstallation woes
Posted by Mike Halsey in software picks on 27. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
Installing software is always a chore, especially if you’ve recently installed a new version of Windows (or reinstalled). Now a new service called Ninite aims to take some of the pain out of the process, with free software at least.
What this service does is creates a custom installer for you that will automatically install the [...]
Free PDF guide to Windows 7 Search
Posted by Mike Halsey in guides and how to's, windows 7 on 24. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
Yesterday I published the article Why Windows 7 search is the way it is, and what lies ahead, in which Dan Plastina, the group manager for the Find and Organise features within the Windows 7 beta explained why the search, organisation and library features in Microsoft’s latest operating system turned out the way they did.
Despite [...]
Windows browser ballot revealed, rolls out in March
Posted by Mike Halsey in internet on 19. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
The browser ballot screen for European users of XP, Vista and Windows 7 has finally been revealed by Microsoft, and will be rolled out to users across the EU via Windows Update from 1st March.
This comes about because of an anti-trust case instigated by Opera about the ‘unfair’ bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows. Late [...]
Upgrade XP to Windows 7, the magic bullet?
Posted by Mike Halsey in software picks, windows 7 on 11. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
One of the biggest problems with Windows 7 is that the architecture is so radically different to XP as to make upgrading impossible. You can only do a clean install if you want to move from one OS to the newer one. The reason for this is that if Microsoft allowed you to upgrade “in-place”, [...]
The time for narrow-minded self-interest is over
Posted by Mike Halsey in cloud computing on 07. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
This week it came to light that there have been senior people at Microsoft who have blocked, or tried to block new products from the company on the grounds that they hadn’t come from their own department.
Now it’s widely known that different departments within Microsoft don’t talk to each other. Examples of this are SkyDrive [...]
