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There seems to be a lot of hype out regarding Microsoft’s next version of their PC operating system.  The public opinion of Windows Vista—however flawed it might have been—clearly left a deep impact on Microsoft.  Whether people arguing the criticism regarding Vista is founded or not, there is no argument that the general populous views Vista as a failure.

With that in mind, this is Microsoft’s big chance of redemption.  When Windows 7 was announced, people were immediately excited to see if Microsoft could make the dream operating system for PC users.  I have been running the Windows 7 Release Candidate for several months now, and here are some quick thoughts.

Let me point out that Microsoft spent a whopping 6 billion dollars on development with Windows Vista.  So anyone who thinks this isn’t Windows Vista at heart, is completely wrong.  Windows 7 is an advanced version of Windows Vista.  Microsoft has also deployed the biggest OS beta testing process in the history of operating systems.  What does this mean?  They are definitely looking to get Windows 7 right in the public’s eye. Read the rest of this entry »

I recently had the opportunity to test another hosted service, Draftix.com.  I found it by searching for some software that would help with season ticket group distribution.  I was creating a new season ticket group of varying ownership and figured there had to be someone out there who’s already figured out how to do it easily using software or even Excel. 

After doing a quick Google or Bing (I’ve tried using Bing lately – maybe more on that in another post) I stumbled upon Draftix.  Interestingly, Bing provided the only direct path to Draftix- the second result, while Google (using the exact same “season ticket sharing software” query as linked to above) didn’t have a link to Draftix in the first 200 results (I gave up looking after 200).  Google’s second result did find a site (Vator.tv) that holds a review of Draftix that leads you to the Draftix site.  This is a perfect example of why relying on only one search provider (and Google is getting a lot of negative press about this lately) can limit your “view” of the Internet substantially.  An analogy would be if you rely 100% on one news service for all of your current events (The same kind of negative view a lot of people have of CNN.) Read the rest of this entry »

In this post I want to talk a little about our data.  By our data I mean any information that is unique to us: files we’ve created that can contain personal or important information that we may want to keep private and/or that we want to have backed up.  Examples include your email files, your photos, tax files, resume, letters, school papers, even your MP3 files.

One of the challenges of managing all of this data is backing it up.  If your hard drive dies for whatever reason, the data on that hard drive may be unrecoverable and all of that information (some of it priceless to us) may be forever lost.  There are many options for backing up data and I highly recommend checking out this IT Business article for more information on some free online services as well as inexpensive external hard drive solutions.  I personally use and recommend free Mozy for home and we resell Mozy Pro for business. Read the rest of this entry »