Time. It's time to embrace software's auto-update era | Deep Tech. Driven by Google and like-minded software makers, a new era is dawning in which your software is constantly refreshed--often without any intervention on your part at all. Depending on how you see things, that could be either a scary loss of control over your own computer or a boon to convenience and security. Either way, the practice is increasingly common. I, for one, welcome it. In the last week or so, I've manually updated Google's Chrome, Chrome Canary, and Picasa; Adobe Systems' Flash Player, Photoshop, Premiere, and AIR; Microsoft Windows 7 and Office 2008 for the Mac; Apple Aperture; Mozilla's Firefox and Thunderbird; Opera; and Evernote.
Should this really be my job? Automatic updates can cause compatibility problems and yield control to corporations whose agendas may differ from your own, but used judiciously, I think it's an improvement. In days of yore, software came on disks manufactured and shipped at some expense to customers. Opera has followed suit. Free Personal Finance Software, Online Money Management, Budget Planner and Financial Planning. Windows 7 and a Grab Bag of Microsoftness Before FY10Q1 Results. October 22nd 2009. Windows 7. The circle is now complete. What is Windows 7? There's a lot that Windows 7 is (oh, it's faster, it has an improved task bar, peeking, snapping, homegroupin', stable drivers and some pretty freaky desktop pictures) but the big thing that it isn't is that Windows 7 is not Vista. It didn't suffer Vista's raging dysfunctional mismanagement and broken windows.
It didn't require a reset. With FY10Q1 announcements coming this week and along with Windows 7, I hope we have a lot of good things to talk about with the analysts. So, anyway, what's in the mix as the financials come up this week? Windows 7: check. Within the Windows 7 reviews, there's going to be a point-of-view that the operating system is dead, which is, ah, kinda dumb. Kindle? Windows Live is supposed to help with building value via rich applications. Joy. Windows 8: speaking of planning! Office: hey, hey, hey, there's a Beta on the way. Mobile: Holy. Look. And I'm going to buy an iPhone. I hate it. Start Your Online App with FairSoftware.