Muddying the water?

Looks like Microsoft could make its Vista successor, aka Windows 7, available as soon as August. There seems to be a rush to do this, I'm guessing because Vista has been such a huge failure that Microsoft wants to take it off the table and leave it behind as soon as they can.

Much more on this as information becomes available.................

Windows 7 could launch as early as August

20 Years of AOL Annoyances and Foul-Ups

I just don't know why anyone would still be using AOL. Perhaps if you are still a dial-up user and can save money with AOL, that would be a good reason. Otherwise why? I recommend getting yourself a Google Mail account (free) and then, to ease the transition, use Outlook Express, Outlook, or Thunderbird to process your e-mail. Outlook Express and Thunderbird are free. Outlook is a part of Microsoft Office (certain versions), and tends to be something a person has by virtue of having bought Office for other reasons. In this sense, Outlook might be considered free. I fall into this latter category.

I use a Google Mail address as my primary e-mail address, and use Outlook as my mail client. All of my mail, incoming AND outgoing, is processed by Google and remains on Google's host servers, so at any time I can look at it all from any computer in the world simply by using web mail.

Anyway, for those of you who just love your AOL and must have it, you may enjoy this stroll down memory lane provided courtesy of pcworld.com. Most users of AOL tend to be long-term sufferers users, and may remember much of the AOL story.

20 Years of AOL Annoyances and Foul-Ups

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Eight Reasons Your Next Computer Should Be a PC

Fair and balanced!

This article, again from pcworld.com, presents the other side of the story. Compare to yesterday's post.

Eight Reasons Your Next Computer Should Be a PC

Eight Reasons Your Next Computer Should Be a Mac

For all of those of you who, like me, would love to own a Mac, [or even an iPhone (also like me)], this will be of interest. It comes from pcworld.com.

Eight Reasons Your Next Computer Should Be a Mac