Jan 22, 2010
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Microsoft’s Bing helps you in the Kitchen

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With the internet, cooking has never been easier, the sheer number of available recipes enough to tide you over until the end of time. Simply visit your favorite search engine, type in the name of a dish, and pore over the various recipes for your culinary favorites. If Bing is your search engine of choice, [...]

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Jan 6, 2010
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Specify which programs users can run in Windows 7

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If you’re the administrator of a shared computer on which you have multiple users, you very well could be someone who wants that computer used for a specific purpose, wanting to limit access to a select few applications. This is especially true of businesses where lapses in productivity could be a concern. You could be [...]

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Jan 4, 2010
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Microsoft Security Essentials is the #1 Free anti-malware tool

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A few blog posts ago, I touched upon Microsoft Security Essentials’ recent accolades from AV-Comparatives, an anti-malware testing group that compares various anti-malware solutions and ranks them accordingly. As reported, Microsoft Security Essentials is one of just two anti-malware packages — the other being F-Secure Anti-Virus 2010 — that were rated “very fast” in every [...]

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Dec 23, 2009
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Microsoft Security Essentials outpaces two major rivals

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If you use either Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 2010 or McAfee Virus Scan Plus 2010, you might be interested in knowing that a recent report by AV-Comparatives — an Austrian non-profit that assesses differences between anti-virus software, informing the public of their findings — concludes that Microsoft Security Essentials runs faster than the two aforementioned competitors. [...]

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Dec 22, 2009
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JumpLaunch gives you Quick Launch access in Windows 7

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While being a release that has seen Microsoft regain much of the faith it lost with recent installments of its operating system, Windows 7 arrived with many long adored features either missing or peculiarly buried in such a way as to make their use unnecessarily tedious. For those of you pining for the Quick Launch [...]

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