Q – I noticed recently that FT Downloader is running on my WinXP machine. The search results on Google gave a mixed opinion on whether it is malware or something from Microsoft. A – Jay Ferron, our speaker for the evening, said that FT Downloader (ftdownloader.com) is a download manager that comes … [Read more...]
Microsoft – Xbox One
Date: Tuesday, March 4th, 7 p.m. Location: Danbury Hospital Auditorium By Richard Corzo DACS is going to try something new this month. We’ve never had a program on gaming consoles, but for our March meeting we’re going to hear about the Xbox One (http://www.xbox.com) from the folks at the … [Read more...]
XP: The End Is Near. What are you doing about it?
By Bruce Preston As of April 8th, 2014, Microsoft will cease all support of the Windows XP operating system at the SP3 level, having discontinued support for SP2 some time ago. Microsoft is also discontinuing support for Office 2003. This means that there will no longer be 'Critical Updates" … [Read more...]
Jay Ferron – Windows 8.1
Date: Tuesday, February 4th, 7 p.m. Location: Danbury Hospital Auditorium By Bruce Preston In the beginning there was DOS and it was 'good enough', if you were willing to deal with the nuances of the command line interface. There were various releases – 1.1 bumped diskette capacity from … [Read more...]