In February 2007 when Windows Vista was released I gave it a try and was as many many other users quite disappointed. The main complaint was the bloody hardware requirements, very slow performance and some of the new features being more restrictive than helpful. My computer was kept occupied all the time only by the operating system [...]

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A litle belated news but for many people quite important - on 12/18/2007 Microsoft released for public testing third service pack for it’s so far most favourite operating system Windows XP. You can download it here -  it’s 336MB. It doesn’t include any new functionality and is just a rollup of all hotfixes and updates since 3+ [...]

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IBM unlike MS provides (well, not anymore) fixpaks in the form of diskette images. Because floppy disks are notoriously unreliable, slow  and expensive these days, it is much better to install FixPaks using other method - extract the content of all the diskette images to hard drive and then apply it to your OS/2 installation.
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Internet Explorer 7 has built in search and by default it uses Live Search by Microsoft. You can however choose from a list of other providers that is available at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/en-en/default.mspx
Recently I was looking for some movies and TV series on Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) and I thought it might be nice if I am [...]

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I admit it, I’m a Windows guy. Almost 20 years ago I started with MS-DOS, continued on Windows 3.11, then 95, replaced them with OS/2 Warp (may it rest in peace…), back to Windows NT, then XP and 2003, now friendshipping with Vista. But time to time I get the crazy idea to try something new [...]

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