So Corel is following Thinkfree Office’s lead and is releasing a Home Office suite that will play nice with netbooks. According to Corel, Home Office is: a new office suite designed specifically to address the needs of consumers and home-based businesses. With its low memory requirements and small footprint, Corel Home Office is also ideally […]
Archives for June 2009
Should I switch back to Linux? What distro should I go for?
So I’ve been using Windows XP on my ancient Eee 701 for almost a year now. I’ve had no complaints with it. Well, not until lately. Somehow Firefox has been crashing on me so much that it’ll be a miracle to surf the web without my favorite browser crashing on me within an hour. I […]
Microsoft to create new anti-virus
I know this isn’t really netbook news, much less Eee news, but Microsoft’s currently trialling a new anti-virus that’ll be given away for free. It will be released, um, “soon”. Called Morro, the software will tackle viruses but lack the broader range of utilities, such as parental locks, found in paid-for security suites. Morro will […]
Netbook-specific security suite from Kaspersky
That’s right, you guys. Kaspersky has introduced a security suite made just for netbooks. It’s designed to work on netbooks and other small notebooks with Intel Atom, Celeron-M, or VIA-C7-M processors that are running Windows XP. It’s been tested to work on netbooks from Acer, Asus, MSI, and Samsung. Kaspersky says that the security suite […]