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Review - Auto Hide IP
4.6.0.8 (Oct 22, 2009)

It simply does not work. While using this, and then using tools easily found online, my real IP address was revealed without the least bit of trouble. This software is a joke.
Review - Opera for Windows (Beta)
10.10 Build 1830 Beta (Oct 9, 2009)

Unstable? Hardly. Opera's beta versions have crashed on me but one time over the past few months--and on Vista, no less. I've seen it be nothing but rock stable.
Review - Google Desktop for Windows
5.9.908.26273 (Aug 27, 2009)

Anyone unable to rank this with more than one or two stars is far from an objective reviewer basing their review only merits. Using Google Desktop on one computer and Vista sidebar on another, I find as with all software alternatives, each has its strengths and weaknesses.

However, when I want to find something I may have somewhere in Gmail, possibly on another of my computers, maybe the answer is on the net, and/or in a non-Microsoft format (altogether covering 95% of data and possible locations, if not more), I turn to the computer with Google Desktop and forget Vista Sidebar and even its merely decent search.

(And anyone silly enough to think they're truly hiding data or their internet usage almost 10 years into the 21st century is a completely clueless moron.)
Review - Rainmeter
1.0 (Aug 9, 2009)

I can only assume the author hasn't purchased a new computer in a few years and/or is totally unaware that almost all PCs now have multiple cores. Reporting a single value for CPU usage on a quad-core machine is a major show-stopper, at least for me when I've needed to know what's occurring on different cores all too many times to properly assign affinities. Uninstalled and deleted.
Review - Realtek High Definition Audio Codecs for Windows
2.27 (Jun 24, 2009)

Definitely something in the last version which crashes my system. However, the weekly updates are a real hassle. Maybe time to start avoiding Realtek on any computers I now purchase.
Comment - PDC 2008: Look out for the 'delighters' in Windows 7
2.27 (Oct 31, 2008 - 11:46 AM)

Marketing is 90% psychology. In fact, for my doctorate I took approx. 50% statistics classes, 40% psychology classes, and only 10% true "marketing" classes.

Marketing is extremely multi-disciplinary. It is comprised of psychology, statistics, social psychology, economics, consumer behavior (90% psychology itself), sociology and a couple other disciplines. That is why it is one of the more difficult terminal degrees to get.

And should you doubt my word about from where the concept originally came (i.e., not psychology but marketing instead), first do your research and then pen your response. You'll look far less clueless than that janitor to which you refer.

And, I am proud of it. Thus my response to make certain proper credit is given for work Microsoft seems to wish it should now take full credit.

(And btw Microsoft, you still owe me a copy of Office promised me by one of your sales reps in exchange for help I gave her at that time.)
Comment - PDC 2008: Look out for the 'delighters' in Windows 7
2.27 (Oct 31, 2008 - 11:37 AM)

We were the first to use the term "delight" in reference to a point beyond mere "satisfaction."

And were it so obvious, there would not have been an entire book about it published--and now finally read by someone at Microsoft.

Edit: To be clearer, when using a Likert scale (e.g., a 7-point scale) to measure degrees of customer satisfaction, "delighted" was never before a point on the scale. Previously, the scale's highest measure of satisfaction was typically "extremely satisfied." Research revealed there is a point in consumers' minds beyond "extremely satisfied," that it was in fact quite different from "extremely satisfied," and the term "delighted" was used to define and measure that point.

(And no, I do not expect you to understand this. But at least you have been informed.)
Comment - PDC 2008: Look out for the 'delighters' in Windows 7
2.27 (Oct 30, 2008 - 12:31 PM)

Just FYI, the concept of "delighting" the customer is far from being a new or Microsoft-developed concept. It was researched, developed, and coined approx. 10 years ago by the Customer Satisfaction research group (which included me and my colleagues) at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management.

It was my esteemed colleague, Prof. Roland Rust, who theorized and championed the concept of "delighting" customers instead of merely satisfying them.

This article tells me is that Microsoft is a full decade behind current knowledge about providing its customers a positive product or service experience. 'Tis no wonder Vista is a dismal failure in many of its customers' eyes--including mine.

In addition, it reveals Microsoft continues to steal many of its very best ideas from the pioneering efforts of others' hard work. All credit for stated "brainstorms and explorations" goes to Dr. Rust, Ph.D., Marketing and not to Samuel Moreau or Microsoft.
Comment - Microsoft says it needs more Internet Explorer 8 beta testers
2.27 (Aug 1, 2008 - 10:57 AM)

First, if Microsoft's past holds, this will be an alpha release and a beta in name only. (Betas are released as finals--see Vista.) Second, and given that, I've had enough "beta-testing" of Microsoft's alpha releases. No thanks.
Comment - Is Microsoft's Mojave Vista experiment backfiring with users?
2.27 (Aug 1, 2008 - 10:41 AM)

Roswell vs. Mojave. Both decidedly weird desert-themed occurrences with truths seemingly being adjusted as required. And, both are attempts to fool all the of people all of the time.

Is either the Roswell incident or Mojave experiment any more believable and/or manipulated than the other? Quite frankly, it appears to be a tie. After using Vista for several months now, why Microsoft did some things certain ways remains entirely alien to me.

(Did not anyone is Micro$oft'$ marketing department catch that one--consumers mentally and subconsciously associating Mojave with lies and cover-ups not unlike Roswell? Doh!)