With XP quickly gaining in age as it’s desktop successor, Windows 7 is now drawing ever closer meaning more adventurous uses of XP can be sought out. Mobile ventures perhaps? One of the perks of being an older tried and true operating system is that most of the quirks have been worked out and the OS optimized to its fullest. Moving forward with XP, what is the next stage now that Windows 7 will start to take over? Smartphones of course. Brought to you by the...

One of the greatest things that has been announced as coming with Windows 7 is “XP Mode”. This mode will allow an individual to run older programs on new hardware that without XP Mode wouldn’t be able to run at all. While the consumer market generally upgrades their software as new updates to that software become available, the corporate IT world usually will stay with a tried and true set up no matter the age. It may come off as laziness on the IT...

IT departments are long known for not being on top of and grasping the latest in technology.  This fact is no surprise.  They like to take the careful and more reserved approach, instead waiting months to years before upgrading hundreds of computers’ operating systems as the effects of incompatibilities can be extremely costly and time consuming to fix bring production to a standstill and even putting the company out of business as a result of the shut down.  Now...

With Windows 7 coming out, one would think Microsoft would be all for the push to 7 as Vista was a unanimous flop.  Windows 7 while not adding anything groundbreaking in terms of new features does have added reliability and speed on its side (or so they claim).  It comes with great and utterly disappointing pain that I pass along this information: Microsoft has again extended Windows XP’s life.  How far?  Does it really matter?  Should an 8 year old operating...

I know, that’s a good joke.  But it’s a serious response from Microsoft.  They want businesses, particularly the 71% that have neglected to upgrade to Vista from XP to upgrade to Vista while theres still time.  Their reason?  Because of the similarities between Vista and 7, any problems companies face in Vista and get ironed out now will save them time when upgrading to 7 thereby making their upgrade process that much happier.  Also, an upgrade from XP to 7...