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Published 11/02/2009 by CIO New Zealand

Windows 7 killed off my key apps

With no mail server, no mail client, no word processor, no simple file transfer system and all our Thinapps decommissioned, we decided to roll back to a working Vista set-up.

Microsoft desperately wants us to love Windows 7. And running on a machine with no other software,...

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