Screen of Death

Were you affected by the latest Microsoft update?  Miscrosoft announced yesterday that it is looking into its latest security updates.  For those affected, they are left with a black desktop and little else on their screen.

“The symptoms are very distinctive and troublesome,” Prevx said. “After logging on there is no desktop, task bar, system tray or sidebar. Instead you are left with a totally black screen and a single My Computer Explorer window.”

However, those far, Microsoft is saying that they cannot locate the problem nor replicate it.

A Microsoft representative said that the company continues to recommend that customers “test and deploy” the November security updates.

“Based on our investigation so far we can say that we’re not seeing this as an issue from our support organization,” the representative said. “The issues as described also do not match any known issues that have been documented in the security bulletins or (knowledge base) articles.”

So if you are amoung the few people affected by this update, please notify Microsoft.  We need to get to the bottom of this.

Monday Sales Rises

It is being reported that sales online after the Thanksgiving holiday were up 20% compared to 2008.  The news has spark online retailers to continue to offer more and more offers online.  So if you are looking good deals for that hot new flat panel tv, start checking online.

One word of caution.  If you are ordering online, make sure you figure out the correct model for your dream tv.  Then compare it to the model being offered online.  Some of these bargain might be for the older model and not the latest model.  If that doesn’t matter to you then you will be happy with the deal that you can find online.  That is not to say that all the deals are for older models.  Just check to make sure you know what you are getting and what is being offered.