by progadmin | Mar 25, 2010 | Microsoft, Opinion
I met with a potential client. They have a very specialized business that involves analyzing data on hard drives. The data can take many forms and so they have a multitude of software tools that assist in compiling information. And like most businesses, they have a...
by progadmin | Oct 21, 2009 | Opinion
An opinion from my good friend, Kevin Tiahrt… I thought I would throw out my two cents on the release of Windows 7. It is tomorrow, October 22. I have been working with it for the past few months and think that it is 90% better overall than Windows Vista. I will...
by progadmin | Oct 7, 2009 | Cabling, Microsoft, Opinion, Solutions
The myth that Microsoft has created is that the Windows operating system needs to keep getting bigger and more functional. With each new release the OS grows bigger with new applications, new graphic interface designs and new utilities. But if you take a look at the...
by progadmin | Jul 3, 2009 | Cabling, Network Ideas, Opinion
The golden age of PCs was DOS. Why? Because the OS made it very easy to write quick, powerful programs. DOS was a simple single-tasking operating system. It was easy to program on DOS because their were a lot of vendors with competing compilers that made writing...
by progadmin | Apr 1, 2009 | Solutions
I have been in the IT Support business since 1986 and I have seen a lot of changes. In the late 1980s I saw Artisoft LANtastic create millions of workstations in a peer-to-peer topology that enable very small businesses to create a shared network without having the...