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Why I moved from Firefox

This Post could also be titled “Why I now use Google Chrome” as I’ve recently done something a few weeks back I would have thought extremely unlikely. I used and loved Mozilla Firefox for many years and then I was forced to reinstall the OS and software onto my laptop due to a trojan. The [...]

Microsoft tries to lower Google User-Experience

The reason that the vast majority of people use Google as their preferred Search Engine over others (e.g. Bing, Yahoo, Ask, Clusty, Wolfram Alpha etc.) is because Google does search best. Google has such huge Search Engine market share because it returns more relevant results to searchers and is constantly improving. Google does well because [...]

Free Microsoft Office coming 2010

Microsoft has announced that ‘lightweight Web browser versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote’ will be available free of charge through Windows Live in 2010. This is certainly excellent news for the 400 million odd Windows Live subscribers however should Microsoft (MSFT) shareholders be concerned? After all, Microsoft has had significant financial success over the [...]

The End for IE6 – Celebrations all Around

There is a fair bit of comment going on in the blogosphere, chat rooms, discussion forums and Internet in general about Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) becoming a non-supported application and being replaced. This effectively means that existing users of IE6 will need to upgrade or adopt a new Internet Browser (e.g. Firefox, Opera, Safari [...]