Did you know that there's a full featured office suite that's compatible with Microsoft Office and completely free?

Open Office includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database applications.

The interface is similar to that of Microsoft Office, and even advanced Office users will find almost everything they're used to.

Links: Open Office | About Open Office | Screenshots | Download

To see if your PC is ready for Windows 7, download the free Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor.

Created by Microsoft, it scans your PC for potential issues with your hardware, devices, and installed programs, and recommends what to do before you upgrade.

If your PC can run Windows Vista, it can probably run Windows 7, but it's still a good idea to use the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor.

Links: Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor

The importance of backing up data, whether it's personal files such as photo's, music and emails or important business documents is not normally at the forefront of the everyday user but how would it affect you if all your important data was lost?

It happens, I see it too often. Hard drive failures and virus infections are the main cause of this. Families losing their treasured photo's and companies financial records destroyed.

You need a backup plan.

Allow MM PC Solutions to quickly put this in place for you. Setting a backup for everything that's important to you, the backup can be synchronized to watch for any changes in the original files and these get reflected in the backup so it remains constantly up to date. Also, with a "set it and forget it" mode you can be rest assured that in the event of disaster all is not lost.

Contact a technician now to discuss all options available to you.