Please Stop Microsoft...Just Stop It Now

Microsoft in some way is like the police...when they get it right nothing is said but when things go wrong you hear about it from New York to San Diego. I remember in 2006 I tried Microsoft's OneCare and I had to end up reformatting my entire hard drive and swore not to use it again. Now a article from CNET has confirmed that OneCare still has major problems and I wonder if they should leave this type of computer protection to the experts. I truly feel for Microsoft because it seems when it comes to security application they keep dropping the ball.

Maybe they should just concentrate on getting Vista stable so this OS will not end up like another Windows Me. Many computer experts say time and time again that whenever Microsoft purchases a product of a company it turns into lead. Microsoft, get your own house in order before trying to venture out to other avenues. I'm saying this out of love because I am tired of Microsoft being the butt of the computer world jokes.

Small Hiccups with Vista

This post is not to dump on Microsoft's new OS Vista...just a warning for people. This article on CNet is just confirming what I feel about Microsoft products...wait for about 6 months to 1 year before upgrading.

From what I have been hearing so far so good but people have been having some trouble with Vista. To me this is not because it's a crummy OS(Operating System) but as I have and will always say, when it comes to Microsoft, the first year that any of their products are released to the retail public, that's the "Beta Version" to me.>>>more

Tech News for Thursday

Turning social network traffic
into dollars>>>more
from CNet.com|News

Is it just me or does it seem that advertisers are invading every nook and cranny of our lives? I know commercials has been on the uprise and this is how most internet companies make their money, I have no problem with that, even on one of my favorite sites (Vox) you see banner ads and on my blog you see banner ads so why I am even writing this? It seems to me now advertisers are trying to really know everything and I do mean EVERYTHING about you and I.

I guess over the years of me using the web that I have come to block out the ads I see on Yahoo, Google, MSN. Maybe it's my age but I search the web the same way I go into a Target, Wal Mart or our local grocery stores...I know what I want...I go in, get my product(s) and come out. Maybe that's just me or maybe that's because lack of money who knows but the longer people are on the web I believe many of us became "smart consumers".

Years ago when I worked at a Pet food company we had a two day orientation and they taught the new employees how they target customers that come into grocery stores, discount stores on where to place their merchandise; which part of the store to shelve their items, it was pretty interesting. By placing a certain product in the back of store, that would make you and I walk through the store hoping to pick up "items" we really do not need...impulse purchases (this is why as parents we try our best not to take our children when it comes to shopping or just be stern and buy everything they pick up...grandparents on the other hand, that's another story).

These advertisements from the link above are targeted now more toward community groups, teenagers on the web and now even when you and I IM one another. I don't see them quite as often but when I would chat in Yahoo IM sometimes I would have ad bots just 'pop' up out of know where, if I was chatting about posters or even using some 'smiley' icon a ad would pop up about getting more emotional icons for your email or for your IM-ing. In open community sites I see this going on but not when I'm chatting private with someone.

The bottom line I guess comes back to choice, our choice. Just because we see advertisement does not mean we have go out and buy or 'click' the ad. Advertisers, love them or hate them, they are here to stay.

more tech news: Microsoft hopes 7 is lucky number for IE, Some iPods infected with virus, Internet Addictive, Study Says

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And Here I Thought It Was A Slow Tech Week...

Security expert: User
education is pointless>>>more
from CNet News.com

Tuesday I wrote a "help" guide on how to protect yourself when surfing the web. But from the sounds of this article most users are "idiots" in so many words. From what he's saying we should just throw our hands up and let your systems get infected, throw most computer users to the wolves.

I have to admit sometimes it can be a challenge but what he fails to realize is that all of us have been naive from one time or another. I look at this matter in some ways like telling people about Christ Jesus...either you will listen or you won't. But I have learned over time is that all of us have free will.

You can't make people do something if they do not wish to do it...plain and simple. Example, I ask my wife to use Mozilla Firefox to search the web, most of the time she doesn't; does that make her a moron, no....hard headed, yes (but she's still my SugarBaby) Does she pay for in the end..yes. She is a grown woman and computer user will or will not heed computer experts warning. And to be fair most computer users shouldn't have to IT Specialist to surf the web but the times we live in we have to be cautious.

But let me give Mr. Gorling and the other tech experts a little advise...don't belittle people. This is why nerds and geeks have such a bad rep for thinking we're superior and everyone else is inferior (remember Nick the Computer Guy from Saturday Night Live?). I like how Leo Laporte addresses the matter, "we all were novice at one time or another...", I know I don't have all the answers and I learn something new everyday...like not be like this guy...but the point is Mr. Gorling, lighten up. It's not your system that's effected and if everyone was experts, what would you be doing? It's tiresome sometimes, frustrating at times but the bottom line, people will learn to surf the web smarter or they won't.

More tech news: Wisconsin library joins Google book project, , Florida judge gets tough on 'Bully'
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Devotions for Saturday...Good Morning Everyone

Defending Against Temptation>>>more
from In Touch Ministries

Temptation, we can not escape from it plain and simple; but this devotion from Dr. Charles Stanley gives us very good advise on how to be proactive and not reactive. In this day and time with so much that has happen not just this year but just in the last month, we as Followers of Jesus Christ have to be out there on the front lines of this spiritual war that is raging in these last days.

One thing I have learned from temptation is that Satan never shows us the end results of our choices, it's always "in the moment". This is how he has tricked the world for over thousands of years. Think about it, when Adam and Eve sinned (Genesis 3), Satan told Eve once she ate of the forbbiden fruit, her eyes would be open and she would see would be like God. What he could say to Eve is that, "once you do this, you will know good and evil but your covenant you had with God will be cut off forever". Don't you think if Satan would have showed her that picture she would not have taken part of the eating of the fruit? Probably not.

Satan ways has always been and will continue to be "in the moment". When we see beer commercials, we see the nice parties, the beautiful sexy ladies, the nice homes, the nice cars. But what you don't see is the throwing up in toliet at the parties, the sexy ladies who really don't want you in there faces because your breath, your skin, clothes reek of alcohol, the foreclose sign on some of the homes because some people would rather drink than provide for their family or themselves. The cars that is wrapped around a tree or cut short a life of another (ever wonder why the drunk drivers are not killed or hurt but the person who he or she has hit is not so fortunate?)

Satan's methods has not changed, just the way his lies come packaged. Temptation is never going away but our Lord and Savior has given us a way to handle temptation and to be the victors and not the victims. Our Father wants you and I to have a radiant future not a regretful past.

Everyone have a Blessed, Fun, & Safe Weekend

DarrenKeith~

Praying For Our Children
from Christian Embassy Church

Justice

"God, help my children to love justice as You do and act justly in all they do."

Psalm 11:7 & Micah 6:8

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