Inventory management is a complex job and its best handled by computerizing the entire process of buying, keeping record of inventory till selling. But a computer alone is of no use unless it has good inventory management software installed. Just like you cannot compromise with your health, your inventory is also a form of health for your business and you cannot compromise here too. While searching for a reliable, powerful and yet affordable inventory management software, I came to know about a website advanceware.net. At first sight I thought their product will be highly priced because of so many features and big names like Amazon, Microsoft and many more attached with it but I was wrong. They have priced it very competitively even providing you with 30 day money back guarantee in case you don’t like the product. So there is nothing to lose here.

What I like more about their website is that they are confident about their product and service and it shows on their website, they provide you plenty of demos and samples on their website. Not to forget the ease of navigation, every part of website is accessible from top menu. Having a warehouse and warehouse management software is not enough in this age of internet; you might also want to sell your product thru internet. Sounds technical right? Many questions will arise in your mind that how you will setup online store, get payment etc. Advanceware.net offers ecommerce integration for both business to business (B2B) and Business to consumer (B2C) sites. Looking at samples which were live sites, I was quite impressed with the quality of their commerce integration service. Point of sale (POS) system offered here is a must have for business who needs quick processing or orders. For online payments you will need merchant service and guess what? You get that here too.

First time users should not be worried how to choose Inventory management software as I found a really helpful. Tips for choosing an accounting software and much more information you can find on this page. Make sure you read every tip there before deciding on any particular inventory management software.

I upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate from Windows Xp Professional a week ago and after so many days of use, I can say that it’s worth the upgrade. If you are a home user then there is nothing to worry, just upgrade but for professional users who are happy with Xp, should remain happy with it unless they are sure that the software they use will work flawlessly on Windows 7 or not. I have seen any software that works on Xp, also installs and works on Windows 7. I find opera browser crashing many times on Windows 7 and I have to switch to Firefox which seems very stable. Some software’s will work but behave abnormally like Dreamweaver CS4 for example works fine but sometimes it won’t let you insert any code in code view. Similarly Adobe Photoshop CS2 which was never made for Windows 7 works perfectly without any glitch but it will always prompt you to register even if you select “Never Register”!

Apart from Software related compatibility and stability problems, Windows 7 excels in some very basic feature of an operating system and that is file browsing. Navigating to files and locating any file/folder is very easy in Windows 7. It boots faster and most important it shuts down even faster, no more ending program window blah blah… it just follow what you say it to do, shut down means shut down and I like it! A small but pleasant advancement in Windows 7 is that new pen drives will install and become ready to use almost instantly.

Microsoft has included a nice looking media center which can index all your media files and present it to you in a nice way. All’s well but I don’t like two things about it, first the sound it makes when you start it and second is audio equalizer which seems to be absent or its located somewhere so deep that I still can’t find it.

Wonder why Microsoft.com website works best only on Internet explorer? Not only this, most part of its website works ‘only’ in internet explorer. We call it monopolies of Microsoft that it has always disgraced use of software’s that are not made by Microsoft. EU has already fined Microsoft for this bad business practice. There is no doubt that Microsoft is a reputed company and we all use their software because they are easy to use but I don’t understand why they have to follow such cheap tactics. If internet explorer fails to meet security standards then they should work on it instead and something like Internet explorer 7 should have been made long before.

Yesterday when I went to my nearby PC store, I was surprised to see original antivirus software packages kept for sale. I asked the owner of anyone buy them and he said that now people are buying genuine antivirus software! Till now everyone buying a PC would ask the dealer to install all the software’s he/she needed and it was known to both seller and buyer that pirated software will be installed free of cost. It begins with installation of pirated windows xp or vista then pirated antivirus and then pirated office package and finally whatever software customer ask for. The dealers have a bag full of pirated software CD’s. However the trend of using pirated antivirus software is slowly changing and more and more people are buying genuine software. But this is limited to antivirus software only and other software’s are still used pirated only.

Ubuntu we all aware of now is one of the famous free Linux flavor has a new version of its LTS series available. With each new release, it’s getting better and better and giving tough competition to premium operating systems. This new Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS can be downloaded from here instantly or you can order free CD’s of this OS from here if you have a limited or slower internet connection and cannot download big files.

Linux turns 17 today and in these 17 years it has evolved so much that it can be seen almost everywhere, from school books to office computers and hey even my smart phone runs on Linux! Today 6th October was the day when world saw its first Linux, it came to existence from a post made on usernet named Linux. No one would have thought that Linux will come to this stage giving trouble to software giant Microsoft. From the consumer point of view, Windows is still the preferred OS and home pc are always found to have windows installed but for commercial use where security is more important than ease of use, Linux is the way to go. This gave rise to Linux flavors like Red Hat which are premium and comes with support just like any other paid software.