A report issued today from web analytics company  Statcounter , the Bing search engine passed Yahoo! for the first time worldwide in January and increased its lead in February. So here are the numbers

Now I would hope that the title of this article says it all.  I’m not a fan of the iPad.  It’s fortuitous for me that it’s on the very same day that Steve Jobs announced the iPad 2 with his usual flurry or colourful adjectives that I took delivery of an ExoPC Slate running Windows 7.  So why, might you ask was I mad enough to do that!? Firstly, let’s compare the specs of these two tablets.  The iPad 2 has a 1GHz dual core processor, the ExoPC has a 1.66GHz dual-core processor.  The iPad 2 has an unspecified amount of memory and up to 64Gb of storage.  The ExoPC has 2Gb of RAM and up to 64Gb of storage.  The iPad 2 has front and rear facing cameras.  The ExoPC has a webcam and I have a digital camera for everything else.  The iPad 2 has wireless n and Bluetooth, the ExoPC has wireless n and Bluetooth.  The iPad 2 has optional 3G and GPS.  The ExoPC, in fact my ExoPC, has the optional 3G and GPS. You might think, looking at the core specification that the ExoPC would nudge ahead.  That’s not the case because the operating system for the iPad has been tailored to that specific device and its hardware.  Because Apple know exactly  what the OS will be running on they can make it brilliant.  The ExoPC, despite having its own software UI layer runs Windows 7 and is inevitably hamstrung by that.

The newest version of the Windows operating system helps provide greater security and manageability for local and remote computers while improving on the fundamentals of performance and reliability. And because Windows 7 was designed specifically around user feedback, your staff should notice immediately how much faster, more reliable, and easier it is to use.

Microsoft SpyNet is a cloud service that allows the users of Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) or Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) to send reports about suspicious software and programs to the…

While a father plays a video game on an ASUS Eee Slate — a “Very PC” activity — his daughter turns the living room walls into a mural.

All modern web browsers have options to store passwords for the user which is beneficial in two ways; Users do not have to remember their passwords every time they want to log into a service on the Internet, and they do not have to enter the data into the forms manually. The downside are security implications and potential recovery issues. Most web browsers offer to protect the stored passwords with a master password to avoid unauthorized access to the passwords

Microsoft OneNote Mobile app is now available for the iPhone. Microsoft and Apple’s relationship has been very  hot and cold.

Cloud based email is great. Providers such as Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo Mail offer web access to their email services that allow users to access their emails from everywhere, provided that they have an Internet connection and compatible web browser at hand.

Microsoft recently released Windows 7 SP1 for general users (Windows 7 SP1 RTM Build 7601.17514.101119-1850).

In this video I look at creating an answer file for the windows 7 setup. Creating an answer file allows you automate the install of windows. Next video, creating a reference image