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Bing not so nice

Bing.com is, as you will know unless you have been completed cut off from this world for a long time, Microsoft’s latest attempt at wooing internet search users.
Bing has just started to become publicly available. And its first impressions are, well, not so good.
To begin with, the homepage doesn’t display properly on my browser. No, [...]

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Windows 7 - Is it worth it for Vista users to upgrade?

The Windows 7 Release Candidate version has been recently released by Microsoft. The salient features include high performance, and little improvements here and there. [Edit: the final, RTM version has also recently been released to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. My opinions have not changed.]
But what about Vista users? In specific, those that have the [...]

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The Junk that is IE8

I have never been much of a fan of the Internet Explorer franchise. Why Microsoft is bent upon forcing IE through is beyond me - they should have simply given after IE6 was drubbed by Firefox 2.0 and onwards.
Nevertheless, we saw the miserable IE7 and now, we have IE8.
I was piqued by press hype, saying [...]

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Windows 7 review (in VMware, beta)

Introduction
As my readers will know, I have recently been testing out lots of OSes in VMware. The latest to hit my test line was the beta of Windows 7. In this very brief review, I intend to outline the major achievements of Windows 7 so far.
Despite everything, the hardware requirements for running a normal copy [...]

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Windows Update crashes system?

I just installed the latest patches from Microsoft for my Windows Vista. These included the latest IE7 anti-vulnerability patch and a Windows Defender signature file.
And guess what? They prevented my system from rebooting, causing the computer to blank out at the point where I enter my password. I don’t don’t which one of the two [...]

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