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You may have already heard of the Google Android operating system, it was originally designed to run on modern mobile “smart” phones. However, with the advent of the netbook (small ultra portable laptop like devices) there has been interest in porting Android onto these machines. Why would someone want to run cell phone software on a computer? For starters the software runs very well without much hardware horsepower. Secondly, Android brings with it the well established Google name. Whereas before consumers selected from Microsoft XP or Ubuntu they could very soon be given the choice of choosing between Windows 7 and Google Android.

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Kavmerica.com usually doesn’t review technology but we are going to make an exception here because of the vast economic implications that the new version of Microsoft Windows carries with it. Recently we were able to get a hold of a beta version of the new operating system, Windows 7. It should be noted that some of the problems mentioned below will be fixed before the final version comes out. However, no doubt about it, Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit) severely disappointed us.

Our test machine was setup to run NVRAID. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s when the computer uses software to make two or more hard drives appear as they are one disk. That’s where the trouble started, both Windows XP and Vista were able to detect this configuration without any problems, Windows 7 could not. Finally we opted to just do away with NVRAID and install it to a single hard disk. The Installation was rather straight forward after that and seemed to move along quickly.

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Many people feel that they need to have Microsoft Office in order to be productive on their computer. While this may or may not be the case Microsoft has come out with some attractive pricing options.  You should also be aware that Microsoft sells 5 different versions of their office suite.  A handy comparison is Available Here.  If you’re a home user or a student headed off to college then the Home and Student Office package is a very attractive option.  The retail price of $149 can easily be beat at many locations.  If you need it right away Staples and Bestbuy carry it for only $99, while online retailer Amazon.com has it for $74.99 and they’ll ship it for free.

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Apple announced today a 30 day free trial of iWork ’09.  Available Here

The computer “office” market is currently dominated Microsoft’s Office 2007.  Available Here as a 60 day free trial.  It is doubtful that iWork ’09 will make any serious inroads into what has become a very lucrative corporate market.  However, it should appease the Mac faithful and dampen any movement towards open source products like Open Office which is available freely.