Free Microsoft Office 2010 Upgrade Info Leaked Online
Interested in a free copy of Office 2010 but can't wait until summer to purchase the new software suite? It appears that Microsoft has let slip some interesting details about a forthcoming promotion aimed at potential Office 2010 customers this June. The promotion, which is rumored to be called the Microsoft Office 2010 Technology Guarantee Program, will pertain to those customers who purchase a copy of Office 2007 (with or without a new PC) from an authorized retailer between March 5, 2010 and September 30, 2010, and who wish to upgrade to Office 2010 free of charge. Office 2010: Activation ...
Win7 RC Users Face Bi-Hourly Shutdowns, No Updates
Microsoft is warning that those who downloaded Windows 7 RC (release candidate) sometime between May and October of last year are facing bi-hourly shutdowns if they do not upgrade (or downgrade) their operating system. Microsoft offered its release candidate software for its then highly-anticipated Windows 7 operating system back in May 2009. It generated an unprecedented number of downloads, as users of Windows XP and Vista looked to the Redmond-based firm for something better. Windows 7 RC: to be Banned, No Updates Unfortunately for all those RC users, beginning February 15, 2010, ...
Virtual City
Description Create a residential paradise or an industrial center in this fun and exciting simulation game! Construct gorgeous houses and industrial buildings as you produce goods and deliver them to the shopping malls. Make the city a cleaner place by recycling garbage, adding hospitals and fire stations, and upgrading building. Deal with economic downturn and natural disasters. Build the city of your dreams today! Key Features 50 Challenging Levels In 5 Settings! More Than 50 Types Of Buildings! Earn 16 Special Achievements! Unlock Upgrades And New Buildings! Requirements OS: Windows 98/Me,...
'Sandboxie', and 'Page Zipper'
Sandboxie Sandboxie helps to protect your operating system by running specific programs in an isolated space. For example, sandboxie would isolate a newly-installed program from having access to making changes to other programs and data in your computer. If you do a lot of downloading and want to try out a program and don't want it to make changes to your system, sandboxie is what you need. Page Zipper Ever read one of those top ten lists or photo galleries where every item is on a different page? PageZipper automatically ...
Sun Microsystems CEO Tweets Resignation
The CEO of a major computer vendor and information technology services firm has quit his job. That alone is a big deal, but the way he announced his resignation -- via social networking site Twitter -- has turned a few extra heads. Sun Microsystems' CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced his resignation on Twitter yesterday. "Today's my last day at Sun. I'll miss it," he Tweeted at 1:12am Thursday morning, says the New York Times. Schwartz followed that with an exceptionally brief synopsis of the reasoning behind his quitting, announcing, "Financial crisis, Stalled too many customers, CEO no more." ...
Black Hat Hackers Conference Confirms New IE Flaw
Microsoft has confirmed a flaw in Internet Explorer could be used by hackers to access the files on a user's computer. The flaw was demonstrated at a security conference this week. The man who discovered the flaw, Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina of Core Security Technologies, says that so far as he can tell, it's not something which can be easily patched. The good news is that Windows Vista and Windows 7 both have default options for Internet Explorer which can block the problem. Medina first noted the existence of the flaw last week, but held back details until this week's Black Hat Conference. ...
Windows 7 Powers MS Through Recession, Hottest OS Yet
Just a week after digital content distributor Steam announced nearly a quarter of its members had already made the switch to Windows 7, Microsoft Corp. has revealed that its latest operating system is now the most-rapidly adopted OS in the history of PCs. Win7: 60 Million Licenses and Counting Microsoft released Windows 7 on October 22 of last year. Over the course of Microsoft's second quarter within the last fiscal year, the Redmond-based firm reported selling some 60 million Windows 7 licenses, making it the hottest OS in the history of personal computers. In a recent report, industry ...
'MSI Afterburner', and 'JD Context Menu'
MSI Afterburner MSI Afterburner is a free overclocking utility designed for MSI graphics cards, but also works with video cards from other manufacturers. MSI Afterburner's main features include GPU / Shader / Memory clock adjustment, advanced fan speed, GPU voltage control and monitoring of the card's vital statistics. Note: for experienced users only; overclocking can permanently damage your video card if not done properly. JD Context Menu JD Context Menu is a shell extension add-on that add new functionality to the right-...
Homeland Security Warns: Stop Using Internet Explorer 6
United States security officials have joined European officials in noting the potential security risks of running Internet Explorer 6 (IE6). But they haven't gone as far as issuing a formal warning to stop using the browser. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), part of the Department of Homeland Security has issued an advisory suggesting users review the recent Microsoft security patch and apply any updates which will improve security. That could be interpreted in two ways: patch IE6 immediately, or update to a later edition; the latter of course would make more ...
