This post goes directly to Microsoft: ?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!  What are you thinking?!

Microsoft has officially announced it will be releasing FIVE versions of Windows 7:  Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate, and only Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional will be sold in retail.  Apparently this is to remove confusion caused by all the versions of Windows Vista.  They’ll be selling Home Premium to basic users, and Professional to businesses.

Microsoft, I think  the confusion came from having a billion versions of an operating system, and you’re doing it again?!  *Smacks forehead*

To top it off, the Windows 7 beta that 2.5 million or more of us are testing is Ultimate – but will only be offered as an upgrade.  This means we’ll be forced to buy Home Premium or Professional, and then pay even more for “Ultimate.”

Windows 7 Ultimate beta 7000 is nice, so why don’t you just sell what you’ve been having us beta test – and leave it at that!

Microsoft: this is blatant stupidity, and it’s moves like this that are going to make more and more people convert to OS X and become a “Mac.”

There is an ongoing battle between FireFox and IExplorer users.  Much like the battle between Mac users and PC users – no one has substance to their argument, other than the fact they just like their operating system – no one has any substantial reason for switching to Firefox or staying with IExplorer.  I use both, so let me share with you the pros and cons of both.  This first article is all about firefox, so if you’re remotely curious as to why you should use Firefox, then please read this article.

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I recently encountered a VERY random problem on my Vista machine.  I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary, my Windows Update settings were modified to not download or install updates without me doing so manually – which I hadn’t done in a long time, and I haven’t installed or modified anything.  But, for some reason, IE7 just decided to freeze when I opened it.  I restarted my computer, it still froze; I ran IExplorer with no add-ons, and it still froze.  I used Firefox to do some research and found alot of people have had this problem but no one had a definitive answer.  If running IE7 without add-ons didn’t work, people just gave up.  Well, I have a solution.

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