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September 28th, 2008

Windows Live Writer Beta - Build 14

I’m finally glad to report that Windows Live Writer is finally back in full-effect on my computer and I can’t tell you just how happy that makes me. It’s amazing how much I’ve come to appreciate this piece of free software from Microsoft.
It isn’t so much a question of dependent, as I was able […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

June 3rd, 2008

More Integration of Windows Update

After hopefully finding a solution to my wife’s laptop problems, I began wondering to myself, why in the world didn’t Windows Update notice there were BIOS updates available for my wife’s laptop?
Although my wife is running Vista, you can tell from the graphic to the left from my Windows XP Pro machine that Windows […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

February 26th, 2007

Give Vista or any other OS a try without killing XP

Do you currently have XP, and even after reading about Vista’s most annoying “features”, you’d still like to try it out? You can download Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and give things a whirl.
The latest version of Microsoft’s virtualization software is now available as a free download from Microsoft’s website.
Virtual PC 2007 is a powerful software […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

October 18th, 2006

Microsoft Opens Virtual Drives

Maybe this is what I need to get Vista installed on my machine since I don’t have a testing machine to use. I’ve been waiting on upgrading to Vista until I can afford to upgrade my graphics card and add some more RAM.
The software permits the easy use of several operating systems on one machine. […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments