Lucid Points

I’ve written here, here, and here about Microsoft’s blunders, issues, and possible coming demise. Oh, and here, here, and here. There are others – trust me. I am not against Microsoft at all. What I am against is their failure to adopt new business paradigms, their total lack of respect for users (product activation failures), [...]

*May not work with your Vista computer. What a pain – Vista has been out for months, AOL 9.0 VR is supposed to work with Vista, and guess what? It doesn’t.  After the technician made sure that I had enough memory, turn off Aero, adjust for best performance, tinker with the paging file, and even [...]

Well, it seems the latest update to Motorola Phone Tools has created some instabilities to the program, or at least Mobile Phone Tools with Vista. I know of one person that is getting a com port error, and when I use bluetooth, it returns “…if you are performing an “Over the Air” sync or backup [...]

Well, it looks like the Vista problems are even deeper than Microsoft would like, and I am not the only one that thinks Vista Sucks. Now, in the Small Business section, you are offered your choice of XP or Vista.

Ok, there, I said it. I don’t get it – there is not enough of anything to justify upgrading to Vista. In fact, if you just crawled out of a cave bought your first computer, I’m not sure if you should even use Vista on it. The UAC is enough to drive you crazy. I [...]

As I expected from articles I have been reading, the attempt by Microsoft to tighten up security on Vista by implementing UAC (User Access Control) is so annoying that I finally gave in and turned it off. It was very annoying. To turn it off, go to the command prompt and run MSCONFIG. Go to [...]

Finally figured out how to get Motorola Phone Tools to work with Vista. Download the latest drivers here [Updated November 25, 2007 – the link now will take you to the latest drivers, dated November 5, 2007). You will have to register for the site, but it is free. Download the appropriate file, either the [...]

If you’ve upgraded from Windows XP Pro to Vista Business, AND you’ve changed the listening port of your Remote Desktop connection, AND after the latest round of Windows updates you find that it is not working, guess what? It seems that the last round of updates either enable a disabled Windows Firewall, and/or disabled or [...]

I upgraded (or reinstalled, I don’t know which) to Opera 9.1.

I was using OpenOffice’s Impress today, and discovered when I tried to import a file, the file list would not stay in place in order to actually select a file type. As soon as you moved your mouse from the drop-down button to select an item on the list, the list disappeared.