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What to look for when buying a notebook or netbook computer.

(reference Network World, Computer World Articles)
Apparently a significant number of people who have tried to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 instead of doing a disk wipe and clean re-install are finding their computer locks up in a continuous reboot cycle: the install fails and then the computer reboots, the install fails and so forth. [...]

Microsoft has released Windows 7. It is much faster than Windows Vista and operates almost on a par with Windows XP. Microsoft has also priced Windows 7 much more favorably than Vista.

Acer has announced availability of the new Google Android (Linux) OS on their AOD250 netbook. This represents a trend toward a ‘data pad’ device mid way between the smart phone and the netbook. Google OS is due in the second half of 2010 to compete head to head with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft may loose significant market share to Google (Linux).

IBM Thursday announced upgrades to and a roadmap for its 15-month-old Lotus Symphony suite of productivity tools, emphasizing it indeed offers an alternative to Microsoft Office. Symphony 1.3, features support for Microsoft Office 2007 file formats such as .docx, xlsx, and .pptx.

This message just in from “Bill” in South Bend. I have not tested it yet.
Lets say you setup your XPpro laptop to require login accounts
instead of just starting up.

And lets say for some reason both the administrator and the other
user passwords don’t work for some reason????

Today I am completing the conversion of our file server to CentOS because the disk drives needed to be upgraded. They have been in service for about two (2) years and are now completely full. I ordered two 1.5 TB Seagates and installed CentOS 5.2xx, then transferred all the user login information for Linux and Samba (Windows file sharing) to the new system.

We are starting our evaluation of Microsoft Windows 7. The free download is available at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx.