by wwarren | Jan 30, 2014 | General, Hardware, Microsoft, Windows, Windows 7
Geek squad used to be competent albeit overpriced. I now have a client machine here that was diagnosed with a series of problems over the past few months to a year. 1. bad internal nic. new nic was installed. It was a good one(Intel) at least. 2. The machine...
by wwarren | Jan 30, 2014 | General, Hardware, Microsoft, Server 2008, Sophos, Vendors, Windows, Windows 7
ETC Maryland has been working with this client for several years. The network this setup replaced was first installed in 2005 when this clients business first started. Due to ETC Maryland’s forward thinking this system was able to be literally rolled into this...
by wwarren | Jan 14, 2014 | General, Hardware, Microsoft, Office, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8
I know there are many small businesses that are running Windows XP still. As of April of this year Windows XP officially dies. Many programs are simply going to not work anymore as announced by their creators. Sure you can hang onto the old versions but as more and...
by wwarren | Jan 9, 2014 | Hardware, Microsoft, Security, Windows
If you still have a windows xp machine. Contact ETC quickly for upgrades or replacements. If you are content to deal with Windows 8 you can go to any store and pay little for a computer…if you can use the computer with the interface disaster that is Windows 8....
by wwarren | Dec 17, 2013 | Microsoft, Windows
Microsoft is so desperate to move copies of it’s turd Windows 8(by extension Server 2012 and office 2013) it’s now forcing partners to that OS. I have 1..1 client that actually tolerates Windows 8. Every other client is avoiding it like the plague that...
by wwarren | Dec 17, 2013 | Microsoft, Office, Windows
My own protest here won’t mean anything to Microsoft but I am NOT renewing my membership at the beginning of 2015. Microsoft has summarily removed ALL windows 7(server 2008, office 2010) etc etc etc from tech net AND their partner download areas. I can’t...
