http://blog.humanready.com housewife's and business owner's guide to today's technology world Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:21:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 http://blog.humanready.com/2009/11/17/windows-7/ http://blog.humanready.com/2009/11/17/windows-7/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:10:43 +0000 Nick R. http://blog.humanready.com/?p=97 Is it me, or is Win7 simply more of the “Vista nonsense”? Played with it for a couple of hours today – pretty much the same look and feel as it’s failure-predecessor. What are MS thinking? No clue, really…

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