Microsoft is closing the doors on all 32–bit versions of Windows after Server 2008 ships later this year. This announcement came during the second day of WinHEC as Microsoft posted an updated version of their Windows Server shipment schedule:

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This move to 64–bit operating systems will definitely be for the better, even thought the transition probably won’t be pretty. I can already picture

First things first: If you haven’t upgraded to Picasa 2.7, now would probably be a good time to do that.  It’s been available for a couple of weeks, and there are major improvements, in particular speed improvements.

Once you have that done, go checkout Picasa’s new flash slideshow feature. A handful of startups have offered a slide-show presentation that could be embedded into sites and blogs, but Picasa has

Wired posted an article today discussing what will undoubtedly spark a lot of opinions around the Web. In the article it questioned whether Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser is becoming too bloated, and whether it will be able to maintain its slim identity.

I’ve read so much on this topic over the past year or so that it is starting to wear away at my brain. Wired, however, did a

We’ve mentioned UTube before, not to be confused with YouTube, the popular video site.  Last November, the Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation (UTube.com) decided that they were going to sue YouTube. They went from getting 1,500 visitors per month to over 2 million once the video site gained popularity. Some might view this as the perfect opportunity to make some extra money off of someone’s mistake, but UTube owners filed a lawsuit stating that

Back in March Yahoo redesigned their personalized homepage (My Yahoo), to give it a new Web 2.0 look and feel.  It was a huge improvement, but at the time they said they weren’t done yet. They promised new features, and just last night some of those features started rolling out.

There’s a lot of competition in the personalized homepage arena with Google putting a big focus on theirs, but also with Netvibes and Pageflakes who thus far, have

I just saw a post on the Flock blog today reminding everyone of the test day last week for a pre-release version of Flock 0.8. The point of these test days are to find bugs and problems in Flock before it is released to the public, and it sounds like it should be in final form within a month or so.

Early this year I updated you on what was happening with this

Secunia launched a free online Software Inspector last December, and since then over 350,000 inspections have been completed. As we’ve discussed before, the service scans your computer looking for specific applications (Acrobat, QuickTime, iTunes, Windows Media Player, Firefox, Thunderbird, Internet Explorer, Opera, and more) to make sure that you’re running the latest version.

I ran the scan myself to see how well I keep my programs up-to-date, and it turns out that I