Although flowers, candy and clothing are favorites for most grown children to buy their mothers, for most mothers simply visiting with her is the best present of all &151 besides taking your mother out to eat (I’m not kidding! Don’t make her cook!). Here are some little things that you can do to make her online life easier.
Microsoft is dropping the price of upgrading from one version of Windows 7 to another for a limited time. Which means those lumbered with Windows 7 Starter on their netbook can now upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium for $50 rather than $80.
The vast majority of the people who have upgraded to Windows 7 since its release last October are satisfied with Microsoft’s latest operating system. And why not? Because this is one Windows OS that does manage to live up to the considerable hype placed on it.
Windows 7 has already been adopted by a large swathe of home users. But it now looks set to be adopted by enterprise as well, with the IT departments at businesses finally realizing it’s time to move on an up from Windows XP. And many are not even determined to wait until Microsoft releases Windows 7 SP1.
On Tuesday Microsoft will be releasing two bulletins. The bulletins address eight vulnerabilities in both Windows and Office. Bulletin 1 will be fixing problems with Microsoft Windows while Bulletin 2 will address issues with Microsoft Office.
Recent figures showing Windows 7 more widely used than Mac OS show that people are rapidly switching to Microsoft’s latest system. But they also give an interesting insight into exactly who is – and isn’t – making the leap.
It was good news when Microsoft released its Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool to enable owners of netbooks without an optical drive to upgrade to Windows 7. However, it’s bad news to learn that the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool possibly contained source code from the GPLv2-licensed ImageMaster project. Oh dear.
Two weeks after the launch of Windows 7 and I think we can safely say it went rather well. There was a successful build-up to the launch, a huge buzz created around the new operating system, and despite a few upgrade hiccups, very few technical difficulties for end users. And first week sales figures suggest consumers responded by opening their wallets.
Microsoft has found a solution to a problem which caused some Windows 7 upgrades to freeze up before completion. But the firm has yet to solve a separate problem where machines are caught in a reboot cycle.
The advance hype is over and Windows 7 is now out in finished form (well, as finished as constantly updated software can be). Should you upgrade? That’s a question only you can answer, but we’ve got some tips and suggestions to help make that decision.
It took its time in finally arriving but it’s now here at last. Windows 7 went on general sale yesterday around the world. In many ways, the true test for Microsoft’s new operating system now begins. Beta testing is fine but it cannot ever hope to compete with millions of average everyday PC users installing and using the OS on their machines.
If you are upgrading to Windows 7 from XP, or if you are upgrading from Vista but changing editions (for example Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Ultimate rather than Windows 7 Home Premium), you will need to carry out a clean install. Unless you are going to partition your drive, this will mean reformatting your hard drive and wiping out all the data on it. Here are some pointers to minimize the hassle this causes.
Corporate sales of Windows 7 could get off to a good start if businesses follow the advice of a leading analyst firm. Gartner has suggested companies should skip the common policy of avoiding a new operating system until its first service pack.
The countdown to Windows 7 continues with news that Intel testers have given an overwhelmingly positive response to the system. Meanwhile several unorthodox editions are available: an official signature edition for party hosts and some somewhat less official editions on eBay.
The whole world is still locked into a recession right now, and one of the sectors hit for consumer spending is technology. But there could be a savior on the horizon, and it’s probably not the one most people would have pictured. That’s right folks, Microsoft is about to save us by releasing Windows 7, an OS that could potentially persuade us all to spend once more.
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