Wednesday October 29th.

I read that Microsoft has announced that they are bringing out yet another operating system to replace the failed Vista system, which had so many bugs that many, including yours truly, opted to stay with XP. Windows 98 no longer has support but I am aware that there are still quite a number of computers still running with it. These operating platforms have become so complicated and use up a great deal of memory and resources, that they are in fact much slower than 98 was. No commencement date has been revealed yet but I am sure that many will be wary installing it until it has been trialed extensively.

I also note that AOL has taken over ICQ and integrated icqmail into aol. I had to reload ICQ to get access to that address and I will  be notifying all contacts  that come through icqmail of my primary emaiil address.

Also I have tried most of the windoze based browsers and have found that Internet Explorer 8, Firefox and Sea Monkey all work but the Safari browser, eats up too much RAM.For  reliability and a quicker start- up,  Google Chrome is by far the best. I took Netscape Navigator down after they withdrew support and stopped updating the browser. Firefox has taken over and Seamonkey appears to be identical, based on the same Mosaic foundation that Netscape had.