By admin -

Microsoft is apparently shrugging off the big Chrome OS announcement from last week, which seems a bit silly to me. Considering Google is very big on FREE, a school of which Microsoft does attend – and with years of frustrated MS OS users, I would say that a Google offering will be a very welcome option. Especially being a Linux base – so hey, maybe we won’t need some ungainly antivirus/firewall suite bogging down our systems.. mmm, to dream. Anyway – here’s some more reason MS ought to worry -

Googles got a not-so-secret weapon in its bid to convert the world to applications such as Gmail, Google Docs, Google Talk, Google Sites and, soon, Googles Chrome operating system: the 17 million college students on more than 4,000 campuses across the country.

For more than two years, Google has approached colleges and universities with a near-unbeatable offer: provide unlimited hosted e-mail and other applications, all branded by the institution and delivered free of charge.

via Googles 17 Million Built-in Chrome OS Users GOOG.

By pete -

Today we stumbled across one of those issues that comes up just once every few years – sharing files on your Windows network via different Windows OS installations. One would think this should be easy without issue – however Microsoft notoriously makes it difficult to make your computers talk to eachother if they have different version of Windows running.

Lifehacker – Setup File and Printer Sharing From XP to Windows 7 – Windows XP.

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Even if you’ve upgraded to Windows 7 in some form or another, chances are you’ve still got a computer somewhere on your network running trusty old XP. If so, it’s time to set up Windows 7 to play nice with XP on your network.

Over at the How-To Geek web site (my home away from Lifehacker), Mysticgeek writes up a detailed guide to sharing printers and folders between Windows 7 and XP—a process that never seems to be simple enough.