PC World has published on its website the 25 worst tech products of all time. From the article:

At PC World, we spend most of our time talking about products that make your life easier or your work more productive. But it's the lousy ones that linger in our memory long after their shrinkwrap has shriveled, and that make tech editors cry out, "What have I done to deserve this?"

They listed AOL as the #1 worse product of all time, & RealPlayer followed at #2. The rest of the list is pretty interesting too. Read it for yourself:

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,125772,00.asp

Office 2007 isn't the only Beta 2 that Microsoft has just released. Add the Windows Vista OS to that list as well. Earlier the Nebs Blog reported on the requirements of Vista, which seems to be the talk of the town. But now the newest Beta version is available to developers. Check out what PCWorld had to say about it here:

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,125843,00.asp

Computerworld has posted a review & visual tour of Microsoft's Office 2007 Beta 2. One of the biggest differences in Office 07 is that menues & toolbars are no longer used, but have instead been replaced by "ribbons." The interfaces & graphics are a lot nicer looking too. Check out the complete review & tour for yourself:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9000690

Slashdot has got a thread going about the best free anti-virus choices on the web to download. Slashdot's own iamjoltman has listed 3 good choices to choose from, & the reply thread is full of a bunch of other choices to look at. If you're looking for some good free anti-virus protection, this is the page for you. Check it out:

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/22/1310211

Microsoft has revealed the requirements needed for PCs to run Windows Vista. They talked about 2 different requirements, Windows Vista Capable & Premium Ready PCs. Vista Capable PCs can run Vista, but aren't powerful enough to experience the new OS to its fullest. Microsoft also put up a downloadable tool on their page that you can run on your computer to determine where your computer stands in being able to handle Vista. Check it all out here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/default.mspx

Apple has recently released their new MacBook Pro 17" laptop, which is more powerful & has a larger screen than their MacBook Pro 15" laptop. So by common sense the 17" should be more expensive, right? Well, you'd think so anyway. Turns out that if you customize the 15" to have the same specs as a standard 17", they'll both come out to be $2799. More still, if you upgrade both laptops to the 100GB 7200RPM hard drives & 2GB of RAM, the 17" comes out $100 cheaper! Now I'm not actually saying that the 17" is too cheap, but rather the 15" is way to expensive. Apple has a really messed up idea of how to price their products.

Source: Gizmodo

An awesome new WindowBlinds download became available that'll make your PC desktop look like an Xbox 360. Pretty snazzy looking, if I do say so myself. Get the download from over here:

http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/