Windows XP to stay on…

Despite what the high-ups at MS may want, MS users have made it clear : We still want XP.  Hence, Microsoft will keep an OEM option to customers so that they can get Windows XP when they buy a new machine, well beyond the original deadline to June 30th 2008. So if you want to stick to a legal copy of XP , then get it NOW….

Smart move by MS. Give customers what they want, Vista has nice bells and whistes, but not enough to make me move. I had to get it cause my IBM T61 came with it…so now…

I have Vista. You dont want Vista. You want XP..if you’re going to hang on to Windows..and I need to move to a Mac !

Xobni keeps me from uninstalling MS Outlook..for now

I’ve given up on MS Outlook mostly. What started out as a massively innovative product several years ago is now just a deadbeat same ol’ problems again app. I’ve long since switched to Gmail for personal email. But the one reason I still live with outlook is that its offline. It allows me to keep tons of email close at hand, though its annoying to search.

So just as I was about to shut down my Outlook usage forever, here I find Xobni. (thats Inbox spelt backwards). In a nutshell, Its the equivalent of Google like search engine+analytics+more but for Outlook. It goes for outlook what google desktop does for the desktop, or Vista search for that matter. It also allows you to view your outlook emails as conversations, just like in gmail! yay!