When your talking about/dealing with a shoe string budget you need options for the office software you use. It needs to be cost effective, compatible with what you had before, what you have currently and in the future.

I’m not going to argue that Microsoft Office is the defacto standard right now for office packages, but it’s not the end-all-be-all of office suites. And as a business owner or operations manager you should have options. Read more…

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It’s actually impressive to think Windows XP was released almost 10 years ago; it’s sad at the same time.

Windows XP was a revelation to the computing world when it was released. The biggest, most popular, was the drivers. The complexity of Windows 9x/ME has been finding, downloading and installing drivers for Windows 9x; it was horrible.

The sad thing is that that process hasn’t changed much. Microsoft includes a lot of drivers with their stuff, but it’s not all of them and you’d never expect them to. But you should at least know where to find them or identify them. Every device has a device identifier and that’s how the drivers are found and located.

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