Microsoft is shipping second service pack for Windows Vista Service. I have loaded up this bad boy - so has our Tech Team Leader Bill Slater - and both of us found an easy install and noted performance improvement after applying the SP. Not “Wow!” performance increase, but definitely noticeable, with somewhat faster boot and [...]

IT - the Information Technology industry - likes the Hubble Telescope: Lots of cool technology there, lots of old technology that IT has kept running, and the ever-present IT relationship to astronomy.
With a relationship to “Givernment IT”, eWeek has an excellent slide show of Hubble images ofrom over the years. Find it here.
Enjoy!

Mike Elgan, a writer for ComputerWorld (among others), makes an interesting case about “digitizing everything”. By this he doesn’t necessarily mean just documents; he means everything. 

The short version: Photograph everything you own, and upload it all to Evernote.

I have written about Evernote elsewhere on this blog, and it is a terrific product that would work [...]

Matt Roush, who runs the Great Lakes IT Report for WWJ radio in the Detroit area, does a yearly spring “Tech Tour”. He stopped in Traverse City on Friday May 8th, and he reports about his visit here.
He has some wonderful comments about our great area and some terrific local tech companies.
The Great Lakes IT [...]

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ComputerWorld is telling us that Windows 7 may launch - as a shipping product - as soon as a late August-to-late September time frame.
Windows 7 is moving at a furious pace, and the latest betas and the Release Candidate we have seen look good.
My thinking is that this will be huge for Microsoft. They maybe [...]