Upgrading to Windows Vista has been banned by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), technology giant Texas Instruments and other corporations and government agencies. These organizations are evaluating their options, but overseas it’s turning into a stampede to get out of Microsoft software.

School districts in the U.S. are starting to move entirely to Linux rather suffer the cost of upgrading Windows. Examples are the Windsor Unified School District in Northern California and the Bexley, Ohio high school district. Schools making this move have been surprised how easy it is and how much money is saved.

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This didn’t surprise me at all… I haven’t played around with Vista yet but I don’t think I’ve read anything positive about it since it’s release… All I can say is I’ll never be upgrading to Vista anytime soon after reading this article.

Vista - Arrogance & Stupidity

A nice big list of open source applications for windows that are completely free.

Suprise, suprise… FireFox is at the top.

Open Source Applications for Windows

This is AJAX at it’s best. This new software called Scrybe looks powerful. It’s an all-in-one organizer that uses AJAX to make tasks easier.

Check out the video on their website showing a live demo…

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I recently purchased a second monitor for my PC and I’ll never be going back After setting up my second monitor, a friend of mine told me about a cool little tool called UltraMon.

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While I’m on the topic of Customer Relationship Management software, I may as well write about the CRM software my web design company bought this week - GoldMine. This one aint free and it isn’t browser based - it’s software that you need to install on your computer.

However it can still be accessed over a network, you can have unlimited user accounts and isn’t light on the features. You can customized just about anything too.

We’re currently in the process of transferring all our customer details from our old customer management software that I whipped up in PHP over to GoldMine. It’s a boring process but needs to be done.
It’s worth checking out. It’s certainly going to make everyone here at work more efficient.