Many customers will need the full-blown Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2007 version, but for the small, home-based or eBay-based businesses, Microsoft has released Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007 as a free download: Download URL:  http://www.ideawins.comDownload size: 338 MBOS:  XP, 2003 & VistaCost:  FREE (this is not a trial or demo) Product Information: Save time on [...]

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Exam #: 71-260Beta Exam Period: October 31 – November 13, 2006Registration Opens: October 23, 2006Test Time: 4 hoursPromotional Code: BTA620Preparation Link: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/71-620.mspx Audience Profile: Candidates for this exam should have at least one year of experience in the IT field. They typically work as Tier 1 to Tier 2-level phone support in a wide range [...]

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You can receive an Express Upgrade to Windows Vista when you buy a qualifying PC running Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, or Windows XP Professional.  If you’re in the market for a new computer, be sure to ask your retailer about the Express Upgrade to Windows Vista, being offered by [...]

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Webcast: The Recipe to Build a Successful Managed Services Practice from Scratch – Part 3  Powered by: TS2 Wed on the Web  Date: Wednesday November 29, 2006 Presenters: Ron Grattopp & Erick Simpson Event Time: 3:00 PM Eastern, USA & Canada (DST) = GMT -05:00 Duration: 60 minutes Registration URL: http://www.msreadiness.com/WS_abstract.asp?eid=15004776   Description:  This is [...]

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SMS Link is definitely one of the coolest feature I’ve seen in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 so far. With SMS Link, now you can set rules in Outlook 2007 that will forward important e-mails, tasks, ect. right to your cell phone via SMS text messages. You can also send SMS messages to other people from [...]

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Sure, Acer has their Ferrari notebook and ASUS has their Lamborghini laptop, and both are pretty cool.  But if you really need the fastest PC in the universe, any geek will tell you that there’s only one place to go… Alienware   They are big, they are bad, and they totally & completely rock!  And [...]

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I was experiencing the joys of IE7 tonight (multiple 404 errors trying to enter Passport sites after XP SP2 resumes from Standby Mode) and decided to give up and reboot.  After the reboot I hit to Ctrl-Alt-Delete and launched the Task Manager to watch the show. So as I sit patiently watching, my 1.5 GB of [...]

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IE7 is finally out of Beta.  Like a lot of folks, I ran the Beta on test machines and have been waiting for the final version.  I took the plunge Friday and installed the final version of IE7 on my main production machine, and so far, it works great! Tabbed browsing (as in Firefox) is [...]

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Microsoft has released 15 ‘Step-by-Step Guides for IT Professionals‘ to assist in deploying or migrating to Windows Vista.  Each whitepaper is available as an individual download in Microsoft Word 2003 .doc format, and WGA is not required to access the downloads. Date Published: 9/11/2006 Document Format:  Microsoft Word Download Size: 118 – 748 KB, or [...]

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Question:  What do you do when Vista RC2 (2.5 GB) is taking over 10 hours to download? Answer: Download the ISO from an international server instead of a USA server and be done in about 90 minutes. Log in to your https://connect.microsoft.com/ account Navigate to the desired ISO and click on the download link When the Microsoft File [...]

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