The proposed 2009 Canadian budget has an allowance for a first year 100% write off for computer equipment and software for businesses. If you expect to be profitable in 2009, this could be an excellent catalyst to upgrade your technology:
Providing Assistance to Businesses in All Sectors to Invest in Computers
Budget 2009 proposes a temporary 100-per-cent [...]

With online media driving everyone to the Internet to watch Obama’s inauguration speech, expect things to be a little slow online today. Starting at 10:00 EST, we started to experience lag, and it has been getting worse by the minute.
By the time 12:00 EST rolls around, many will start looking for televisions, as they will have [...]

To us, patching is second nature now, as simple as putting on a pair of socks. We bought into the technologies to identify and patch equipment on a regular basis. It seems, however, that millions of people haven’t got on board with the concept yet.
A serious Windows bug was patched as an emergency measure by [...]

I am writing this post from a computer running Windows 7 Beta. After reading postive experiences from peers who got the beta earlier through their MSDN subscription, I thought I would give it a try on my home notebook. I have a new HP 6710b which was running Vista Business - wonderfully, I might add [...]

The first 2.5 million Windows enthusiasts can download the latest beta version of Windows 7 on January 9, 2009. Instructions are here:
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/01/07/information-on-downloading-and-installing-windows-7-beta.aspx
Do it at your own risk and please, if you do, heed the warnings on the above page.