Microsoft has made the upgrade version of the next version of Windows, Windows 7, available for pre-order at a reduced price. The response has been terrific - Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade is now the #1-selling software item on Amazon. During the promotional period it is available for only $49. The Windows 7 upgrade advisor from Microsoft is a free download which can tell you if your PC has what it takes to run Windows 7.

Update: the promotional price has expired.

You can give your Mac hard drive come breathing room by relocating iMovie footage to an external firewire hard drive.

When you first started using your shiny new Mac, you thought the hard drive was so large you would never run out of storage. Then you started using iMovie for video, and now your Mac hard drive is almost full. Fortunately, you can free up lots of space on your Mac hard drive by moving iMovie video footage to an external hard drive. Dragging the video files in Finder will not work - doing this properly is a two-step process.
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Vista has a nice Games Window that you can easily access by clicking on the start button. It is usually located on the right - below “Documents”, “Pictures”, and “Music”.

Sometimes it seems that for no particular reason, launching this Games Window takes a long time. And then when you select a game to launch, such as Spider Solitaire, the game takes a long time to load. There is an easy fix for this.
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Microsoft, like many companies right now, is looking to trim its sails a bit. The company just announced that after 19 years it is pulling the plug on Microsoft Money. They will stop selling it after June 30 2009, and will stop supporting it in another year or two.

We recommend anyone using Microsoft Money begin transitioning to another product such as Quicken right away. Quicken, from Intuit, has been in business 25 years and is the current category leader in the space of personal financial management software. There are tools for converting your data, but they are currently limited.

According to USA Today, Microsoft and Intuit are working on a better transfer solution by fall of this year.

In this economic climate it is more important than ever to get the most value for your money when purchasing a computer for your business. Dell has had a policy for a long time that Dell products purchased directly from dell.com can be returned for repayment or substitution within 30 days. Dell has an Asset Recovery Business that takes these returned computers, refurbishes them, and sells them in an online store.

These computers come with the same warranty as new units, ranging from one to three years depending on make and model.
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Sometimes Microsoft Outlook gets stuck in a loop trying to receive mail. There can be many causes of this, but often this situation is due to a bad piece of mail in the inbox on your mail server that Outlook and/or your Antivirus software just cannot process. The offending email may have a bad attachment/virus, or the email may be badly formatted in some other way.
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