Support for Windows Vis...

The product lifecycle of Windows Operating Systems continue, as the end of support for Windows Vista fast approaches. According to the Windows Lifecycle, support for Windows Vista Service Pack 2 ends on the 10th April 2012. This is for all home editions, which also includes Ultimate....

Microsoft Patch Tuesday...

Microsoft are due to release quite a lot of updates on Tuesday 14th June 2011 that will address some security issues. This includes some updates for Office Excel and for Internet Explorer 9. These updates are important and must be done. If you are Windows 7, you can either update when you...

Internet Explorer 10 &#...

If Microsofts three year software cycle is anything to go by, we are half way through the life of Windows 7, which was released back in October 2009. This of course means that Microsoft are already talking about Windows 8. In fact, according to ZDNet, we could be seeing a preview of the...

Over 10% of users still...

It is a worrying figure, but still over 10% of people in the world are still using Internet Explorer 6, a browser that was released 10 years ago and is very much dead today. According to Microsoft, 11.6% of the world was still using Internet Explorer 6, while 3.3% of users in the UK alone...

Internet Explorer 9 rel...

Internet Explorer 9, the latest version of Microsoft’s popular web browser, has been released. Looking very much like its competitors Google Chrome and the new Firefox 4.0, it does boast support for HTML5 and CSS3 – beating more for the HTML5 compatibility and catching up on...

Windows 7 problems with...

It has been revealed that there are some issues with Service Pack 1 for Windows 7. Users are apparently reporting PCs are hanging, and in some cases not booting, instead being presented with an error code. Worst case scenarios are seeing people having to rebuild their machines and leaving...

How to get and license ...

We have just installed our first Small Business Server 2011 at a clients site which, all told went fairly smoothly. Released early this year, Small Business Server 2011 is the latest incarnation of the SBS family, bringing Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Exchange...

How to print Hidden Tex...

You may have a document that has hidden text, and although you have found how to show hidden text, when you go to print, the hidden text is not there in the print preview. So how do you print hidden text in Word 2010? Simple – go to File – Print and then hit “Page...