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Five Reasons NOT To Buy MS Office This Holiday Season
PUBLISHED: Friday, November 20, 2009
If you're buying a PC this holiday season, virtually every vendor will try to up-sell you a license for some version of Microsoft Office 2007. Not only should you not buy MS Office 2007, you shouldn't pay for any office productivity suite this year. Here are five reasons why.

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iTunes 9 Video Service Review
PUBLISHED: 11/19/2009  BY: Jay Garmon
Apple's iPods and their associated iTunes store are the undisputed product leader in portable digital music sales, but is iTunes video ready to displace streaming services from Netflix and Amazon, or even good, old-fashioned DVD and Blu-Ray disks? Read our review of iTunes 9 to find out.
FULL STORY (1,205 Reads) | DISCUSSION (3 Replies)

Is Outlook 2010 the Facebook-killer? Not yet.
PUBLISHED: 11/18/2009  BY: Jay Garmon
Microsoft is going to war with Facebook. That's the hidden message in the launch of the Outlook Social Provider, a surprisingly un-Microsoft-like feature debuting in the beta release of MS Office 2010 today.
FULL STORY (3,329 Reads) | DISCUSSION (1 Reply)

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 Review
PUBLISHED: 11/17/2009  BY: Charles P. Jefferies
Kaspersky Anti-Virus, our top-rated security product from last year, is back for 2010 with more protection and features. Will Kaspersky continue to outperform its competitors this round? Read on to find out.
FULL STORY (3,577 Reads) | DISCUSSION (4 Replies)

Holiday Software Buyers Guide 2009
PUBLISHED: 11/13/2009  BY: Jay Garmon
Believe it or not, there is a bigger software question this holiday season that "Do I need to upgrade to Windows 7?" As in, what software stocking-stuffers to buy for a new (or old) PC? We rate the best software application in six key categories -- Security, Office Suites, Photo Editing, Video Editing, Online Backup, and Personal Finance -- and offer free alternative apps in each sector for those of you shopping for software on a recession-friendly budget.
FULL STORY (5,801 Reads) | DISCUSSION (4 Replies)

Zoho Writer, Sheet and Show Review
PUBLISHED: 11/11/2009  BY: Jay Garmon
Zoho is a free Web-based productivity suite aimed squarely at the MS Office crowd. Does Zoho have what it takes to convince you leave Microsoft's high-priced businessware behind, or is it just another cloud-based pretender? We break it down in this review.
FULL STORY (2,278 Reads) | DISCUSSION (1 Reply)

GoToMyPC Remote Access Review
PUBLISHED: 11/10/2009  BY: Greg Ross
Does the GoToMyPC creator, Citrix Systems, bring their enterprise-class engineering and product lines to the consumer market? Or is GoToMyPC just the ugly stepchild of the Citrix family? Read the full review to find out.
FULL STORY (2,332 Reads) | DISCUSSION (10 Replies)

AVG 9.0 Anti-Virus Free Review
PUBLISHED: 11/5/2009  BY: Charles P. Jefferies
AVG 9.0 promises protection and performance improvements as well as a better user experience over the previous version. Does it work as advertised? See how it fared in our testing.
FULL STORY (12,452 Reads) | DISCUSSION (29 Replies)

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 Review
PUBLISHED: 11/3/2009  BY: Pulp
Adobe markets their Elements software as stripped down versions of their professional-grade applications, which has its pros and cons. Is Photoshop Elements 8 the best of Photoshop proper, or just a crippled imitation of the real deal? We break it down in this review.
FULL STORY (4,502 Reads) | DISCUSSION (5 Replies)

Microsoft Security Essentials Review
PUBLISHED: 10/29/2009  BY: Charles P. Jefferies
Microsoft's Security Essentials antivirus suite recently came out of beta and is free for anyone running a genuine copy of Windows. How does it stack up to other antivirus suites? Read on for our analysis.
FULL STORY (7,699 Reads) | DISCUSSION (29 Replies)

Adobe Premiere Elements 8 Review
PUBLISHED: 10/27/2009  BY: Pulp
Earlier this year, we were very ambivalent about Adobe Premiere Elements 7. Now that Adobe Premiere Elements 8 has hit the market, are we in for more excitement, or just another uneven video editing experience? Find out in this review.
FULL STORY (3,597 Reads) | DISCUSSION (4 Replies)

USB Bootable Windows 7 For Netbooks Available
PUBLISHED: 10/23/2009  BY: Charles P. Jefferies
Microsoft is offering a downloadable version of its new Windows 7 operating system for netbooks and other PCs without an optical drive.
FULL STORY (2,869 Reads) | DISCUSSION (10 Replies)

Windows 7 - To Buy or Not to Buy?
PUBLISHED: 10/22/2009  BY: Jay Garmon
Windows 7 hits the streets Thursday, and with it something rather new from a recent Microsoft operating system: Positive reviews. Does this mean you should definitely update your OS -- and maybe your entire system -- just for the sake of embracing Windows 7? Or is this just another hypefest that will end in tears a la Windows Vista? We break it down in this buyer's guide.
FULL STORY (15,070 Reads) | DISCUSSION (50 Replies)