Data Recovery in the Event of a Hard Drive Failure

If you want to upgrade your family computers to Windows 7, it's not going to cost you an arm and a leg. Windows has released the Family Pack pricing. Officially priced at $149, it's actually a pretty good deal, compared to previous Microsoft upgrade pricing. If you are wondering whether you should upgrade or not, I recommend you do. Windows 7 is a good operating system, as evidenced by our experiences of running the Release Candidate of the software.

The Family Pack will let you install 3 copies of Windows 7 Home Premium. There is additional pricing released for individual computer upgrades as well. If you want the details, you can find it here.

To Your Success,

Tim
Last week, I blogged about Amazon remotely deleting selected books from their Kindle readers even after customers had paid for them. Apparently, the situation has progressed. Justin Gawronski had his electronic notes for his summer high school assignment on his Kindle, and they were rendered useless when Amazon pulled their "blunder" of the year by purposely deleting the aforementioned books from the Kindle devices.

It looks like Justin has found a lawyer and filed a class action lawsuit seeking punitive damages for people affected by the deletions and an injunction against Amazon to keep them from improperly accessing any Kindles in the future.

Now, I'm not one to justify frivolous lawsuits, but in this case, I say go get them, Justin. I think Amazon has it coming to them. After all, when you pay good money for a device, subscribe to the service, and pay for the books you read, what business does Amazon have digging around in your E-book reader, deleting books that you paid for, just because a publisher changes their mind about publishing in e-book format?

Let me know what you think.

To Your Success,

Tim

Welcome to my blog. I am passionate about technology. Especially when it comes to integrating technology with small and medium business. This is a highly connected world we live in. If business wants to survive, it must not only allow new technology, it must embrace it with gusto. To that end, I will post thoughts on the subject. Comments are welcome, although they may be subject to editing and/or exclusion at my discretion.  Thanks for reading!

Just back from Seattle (Microsoft's Headquarters) where we attended SMB Nation. This is the world's largest gathering of Microsoft Small Business Specialists. A tech with SBSC behind their name is certified on MS SBS 2003 Standard or Premium Edition. At this 4 day workshop, the best of the best debated, discussed and debunked Microsoft's newest offering in the smb arena, Small Business Server 2008.

SBS 2008 becomes available to the public on November 12, 2008 along with MS Essential Business Server, the bigger brother to SBS. This has been a long time coming, and is not just a pretty upgrade to the exsiting product, SBS 2003 R2. In fact, it is a major rewrite of the core operating system. SBS now joins the ranks of 64 bit operating systems.

What does this mean to you and me? More memory, for starters. SBS 2008 will now allow up to 32 gigabytes of RAM. Currently, SBS 2003 only supports up to 4GB, which is one of the biggest gripes about Small Business Server. After you load up a server with core server software, add in Internet Information Services (IIS), Sharepoint Portal (an internal website), Windows Software Update Server (WSUS), Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA), then finally load up MS SQL database, there's not much memory left to run things.

With SBS 2008 Premium comes a new way of doing things. Premium will come with TWO server licenses. One to run SBS 2008 and all that entails, and another Windows Server 2008 license you can install on separate hardware and run SQL database on. This, my friends, is wonderful news.

Stay tuned for more info regarding this.

To your success,

Tim