Video Post: Closing the Book on Borders

Reactions to the announcement of Borders declaring bankruptcy last week ranged from a yawn to panic about the entire bookstore retailing industry. Many are wondering what possible effect this could have on Barnes & Noble, Border's biggest competitor. Given Barnes & Noble's shaky financial situation, there's no guaranteeing what will happen, but I look into that and more in this week's Daily Axioms Video Blog.

The Ghosts of Vistas Past

We are unlucky enough to have an HP computer in our office that still uses the now obsolete Microsoft Vista operating system. This is a product that proved to be fatally flawed and is now replaced by the much improved Windows 7. Why does anyone care? Because these poor computers originally equipped with Vista are still around and people actually try to use them! Ha!

We had a out-of-town visitor to Axiom today with a relatively new Dell laptop with....you guessed it, Vista. I spent the better part of a morning trying to dig down into the internet settings to get the thing to connect to our network. A procedure that takes about two minutes on our Macs. And don't even think about trying to set up a printer...you will regret you even tried. And of course whatever you try to do, you get about a dozen warnings that all life as we know it will end if you allow a perfectly safe application to download.

If anyone out there is still using one of these computers, please, please do yourself a favor and upgrade to Windows 7, or better yet, buy a Mac.