the boomer live

Microsoft in another display of incompetent (greedy) management has discontinued the family pack upgrade (3 installs) of the new Windows 7 operating system for $155.  This morning I was going to buy the family pack to upgrade our computers.  One to replace Vista, which was another piece of MS incompetence, the other 2 have XP, [...]

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I’ve been trying out the Microsoft Bing Search Engine for the past week….
I must admit I was a bit skeptical in the beginning (being a Microsoft product) but,  my verdict is…………… it actually gets much better results than Google for me.  It is especially good on travel related searches.   Try it for yourself and see [...]

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The last couple of Quicktime upgrades have offered to download Safari for me, with the acceptance box already checked.  This really aggravates me.  I though Apple was above these sort of "tricks".  They are probably trying to get their user numbers for Safari on Windows up.  I also got stuck with Pictureviewer (part of Quicktime [...]

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Vicki’s computer started getting the blue screen of death with the warning kernel_date_inpage_error last week.  The notes on the page indicated that it could be one of the following problems, memory could be going bad, bad disk sector, or a recent software download.   The ‘puter is 3 years old so I suspected a disk drive [...]

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I recently upgraded my desktop to a Gateway GM5474 preloaded with Vista.  I did it with trepidation because all I have been reading since the Vista launch is how bad it it.   Slow, intrusive, awkward to use (MS changed the way the file structure is displayed) programs not working, printers and accessories not working.  The [...]

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