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WGHubris on April 28th, 2010

Yet another software company, this time Microsoft, decides that they can just install whatever products and services they want, no matter how unrelated, on my computer because I happen to want ONE product of theirs.

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WGHubris on April 16th, 2010

Microsoft is doing a series of full-day launch events to spotlight the rollout of several new versions of products for 2010. Of particular interest to this author is the upcoming Office 2010 Release Launch Event in Denver next week. Technically, it is a SharePoint 2010 Launch Even and an Office 2010 Launch Event, but I’m [...]

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WGHubris on April 13th, 2010

Microsoft long ago announced that it was ending support for Windows XP. However, the company continues to march on with additional end of support dates and times to really drive the point home for users who continue to be surprised that the company is no longer supporting Windows XP. Recently, there was some hubbub about [...]

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As long time readers of Best Hubris know, I have had a running battle with Microsoft operating systems and wireless networking problems. Yes, by now I may have spent less time and energy by running out and buying a bunch of brand new hardware, but I don’t think that I should have to buy all [...]

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Ah, more Windows 7 glitches. This one is particularly irritating because it is caused by Microsoft Windows 7 trying to be smarter than the user. In general, I don’t mind when the operating system takes care of me, but when it does, I expect a way to be able to undo what it is doing, [...]

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WGHubris on February 1st, 2010

Plenty of people downloaded the Windows 7 Release Candidate over the last six months or so. It made plenty of sense, of course. Since so many people hated Vista, there were not really any options for those looking to upgrade from Windows XP. That, plus the fact that Windows 7 RC was free to use [...]

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WGHubris on January 15th, 2010

I’ve been running Windows 7 on my primary desktop computer for long enough now that things are starting to emerge that I want to be tweaked to my preferences or workflow. One of those things is tweaking the Windows 7 Start Menu to be smaller and more compact, instead of using those large icons. Having [...]

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