Vista
Why you have to click “Start” when you want to stop
The shutdown menu in Windows has been reached from the Start menu since Windows 95. This has given rise to many jokes about having to start when you wanted to stop. The actual form of the Start button or orb and the shutdown menu have evolved from Windows 95 through Windows 7. Long-time Microsoft [...]
Get ready for security patches- Windows, Adobe
Tuesday is the regular Microsoft monthly patch day and there are 14 bulletins, 8 of which are deemed “critical”. Be sure to update.
And, of course, there always seems to be yet another problem with Adobe PDF Reader. A patch is supposed to be released sometime during the week of August 16.
Windows 7 surpasses Vista in usage
In less than a year Windows 7 has gone past Vista in market share according to statistics from Net Applications. Microsoft has been crowing about the popularity of Windows 7 but there is no mention of the fact that Vista is so unloved that people are glad to get rid of it. And, of course, [...]
