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This is the ASUS Eee 701 PC. Acting on the suggestion of a colleague, just before Christmas I slipped into a Toys ‘R Us store, handed over £219 (£186.38 ex VAT) and came home with a smartest little machine I’ve seen in ages. It’s a..
Topics: Firefox, Kids, Linux, OpenOffice

Peter Sayer, of IDG News Service reports on BECTA’s considered opinion of Microsoft Vista:British schools should not upgrade to Microsoft’s Vista operating system and Office 2007 productivity suite, the British Educational Communications and..
Topics: Government, Kids, Microsoft, Office software, Vista

There have been lots of interesting complaints recently from users of Microsoft and Apple operating systems about the latest releases of these systems. The nicest take on the Vista problem is this satirical review which treats Windows XP as an...
Topics: Apple, Linux, Microsoft, Personal histories, Ubuntu, Vista

Techcrunch covers the latest beta release of Office Live, called Workspace, which is Microsoft’s attempt at an online collaborative environment. Think Google Docs and Spreadsheets. Anyway, they weren’t impressed:The big surprise is that...
Topics: Office software