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One can look at this move in a few ways. Here’s the move: Ford Motor Co. and Microsoft are rumored to announce a new version of Windows called “Windows Automotive” to run inside of Ford Vehicles.

The new “Sync” software package will bring drivers hands-free cell phone use, downloading music, and possibly check e-mail.

The announcement is planned to be made at the North American International Car Show in Detroit next weekend and at the Consumer Electrics Show in Las Vegas a day earlier.
The roll-out will start with the Ford Focus and Ford 500, both models geared at the “youth market”. All Fords are expected to have this option in the 2008 model year.

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Here’s a cool Lego video taking on System of the Down’s Chop Suey.  Not the best Lego stop-motion I’ve seen, but defiantly a cool choice in music.

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Here’s a classic that needs no explaination:

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This could quite possibly be the worst wine I’ve ever tasted. Usually there is not an alcohol taste in the glass when you’re sipping a red wine…not in this case. When I first tasted this I felt a need to glance back and see if there was anything wrong with the bottle…not in that case either.

I picked this up because there was a pretty good sale on it at a wine shop that opened up in my area. Although I have faith in the shop, I don’t have any faith anything coming from this California winery.

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The version of Windows Vista for businesses has been out for about a month now. But industry analysts are saying that IT departments are not ready to upgrade to the new OS.  There are a number of problems why this is happening, but it’s not the OS itself.

For one, Microsoft is not releasing patches (software fixes) until early next month. This can prove fatal if a bug, virus, or any other program gets into the system. This is evident with the release of Internet Explorer 7 earlier this month. Patches immediately went out for Windows XP and Server 2003, but not Vista.
Another reason is software. The only thing right now that runs natively on Vista is Microsoft’s Office 2007. Businesses that run anti-virus or VPN (virtual private networking) software are out of luck, for now. The reason why this is the case for those two “genres” of software is due to Microsoft’s reluctance to release the code for Vista to vendors creating the software.

The move to Vista will not happen until early 2008 for most businesses. Some (including myself) are predicting that the switch for consumers won’t happen until PC makers start installing the OS into their new machines. When will that happen? Nobody knows.  The system requirements for all editions of Vista would require a fair number of hardware upgrades to run it, or a new PC.

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