Features - Software

Home Computing in the Cloud - But Will We Just Rediscover the Same Old Problems?
By Bruce Benson

Recently, I wrote about home computing moving to the Cloud. (1) One of my observations on why I like the Cloud was that applications launched faster than an equivalent application running on my six year old PC. The Cloud seemed to extend the life of my PC. It just needed to be good enough to run a browser. I hate tossing out a working PC just because it needs to be faster to handle updated, often bloated, application software.

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The Fall of Windows Vista
By Musa Aykac

Although Microsoft are one of the largest companies in the world they sometimes get it wrong, and this can precisely be said for Windows Vista. The operating system never really caught on with the public, simply because XP was still a much better alternative. But let's have a look at a few reasons as to why Vista never really took off, this is going to be from a user perspective and not a technical article you may have previously come across.

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Step Into Your New Office
By Christopher L Smith

You may be pondering the installation of Microsoft® Office products (Word, Excel®, Outlook®, and maybe PowerPoint®) or looking to upgrade to a more recent release of the Office suite. Although the Microsoft Office suite is excellent business productivity software, it's not cheap (you'll pay anywhere from 150 to 700 dollars per instance, unless you're getting some volume discounts through a reseller). There are alternatives for you to consider, and those alternatives have both pro's and con's.

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