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RCMP Warns of Scam Offering Computer Help!!

By Drew on October 29, 2011, 7:33 pm

Link Removed I have had experience w/ 2 clients who had thes calls. 1 was using a MAC

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Windows 8 USB 3.0 Support Should Be Backported to Windows 7 via SP2

By JMH on August 25, 2011, 2:27 am

As Microsoft announced USB 3.0 support in Windows 8, I don’t think I was the only one thinking: “But what about Windows 7?” The promise from Microsoft...

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Fix Windows 7 SP1 Slow Startup Due to Large Number of Restore Points

By JMH on August 24, 2011, 3:06 am

A fix offered by Microsoft is designed to help customers deal with poor boot performance in specific scenarios involving Windows 7 and Windows 7 Servi...

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IBM Declares the End of the PC Era

By techmonkey74 on August 12, 2011, 1:45 pm

IBM Declares the End of the PC Era | PCWorld

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IE 9.0.2 for Windows 7 SP1 and Earlier – Patch Critical Vulnerabilities

By JMH on August 11, 2011, 2:15 am

Internet Explorer 9 has been pushed first to version 9.0.1 a couple of months ago, and now to v9.0.2 by two update packages released by Microsoft. IE ...

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New M-Disc Technology Promises Permanent Data Retention

By JMH on August 9, 2011, 8:18 am

More and more folks are turning to cloud services like Dropbox to store their oh-so-precious private data, but when it comes to truly valuable info, i...

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Fix Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Failed Installations

By JMH on August 7, 2011, 3:58 am

Microsoft has confirmed that there are scenarios in which Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 deployments can fail, with users being unable to resolve the ...

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Skype continues to go its own way (this time with video codecs)

By JMH on August 6, 2011, 2:05 am

Skype — which still is not officially part of Microsoft — isn’t in twiddle-your-thumbs mode as the antitrust scrutiny process for the acquisition cont...

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Patch Tuesday heads-up 8/9/11: Critical IE update among 13 bulletins

By JMH on August 5, 2011, 9:21 pm

Microsoft is planning a bumper Patch Tuesday for August — 13 bulletins with patches for 22 potentially dangerous security vulnerabilities. Two of the ...

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Placebook? Hang-outs could predict new online friends

By JMH on August 5, 2011, 4:45 am

A method of predicting which individuals may become friends on social networking sites based on the places they visit out in the real world has been d...

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