Kaspersky has always, for my money, been the leader in antivirus software. The features are all first-rate and less computer resources are used than with all of the other programs I’ve tried. Kaspersky is highly recommended.

The best internet security software I’ve ever used. It doesn’t slow my computer down to a crawl, as some others, and is very effective.

Kaspersky has always made the finest anti-virus programs in my experience. This version is fast, proficient and simple - so I can recommend Kaspersky products.

The new 2014 3-user Kaspersky Anti-Virus program is still another typically outstanding product from a company I trust. Highly recommended.

If you’re engaged in just about any sort of business today, it’s difficult not to have Microsoft office. Sooner or later, a colleague will send you a spreadsheet with some sort of custom macro that only works in Excel, or a presentation that only seems to render properly in authentic PowerPoint. Even if you’re a diehard Mac user with all sorts of sophisticated alternate apps on your Mac, sooner or later you’ll wish you had Microsoft Office.

There’s so much history in here…120 years, in a package you can hold in your hands, complete with photographs, advertising - everything. What a great concept. Yes, it has install issues on Windows 7, the search functions aren’t as good as what you find on Google, and as of now, there’s no way to keep it updated as new content becomes available. But, with a product like this, the long-term view is what counts - eventually these issues will be worked out, and you get to own a piece of history for something like three cents an issue.

Photomatix offers a relatively strong and low-cost way to get into HDR photography, and I find it a great creative tool. The program’s support for RAW format images seems to be good - it handles RAW from my Nikon D300 and D3x without problems, although the large files that come from my D3x seem to take a long time to process. A fast computer and lots of memory help. Assuming good basic technique, the images come out amazingly well.

Others have covered most of what I want to say, but I thought I’d add a few comments. First, VMware really rocks on my 8-core Mac Pro. For some reason I don’t quite understand, it runs some Windows benchmarks within a virtual machine faster than booting Windows natively on the box! Graphics-intensive apps seem to do better natively, but anything that does lots of I/O seems to run faster under VMware.

Used H&R Block tax software for the first time last year - it was cheaper than what I had been using.nSince they didn’t constantly bug me to buy it again this year, and it worked well last year, I purchased again.nI’m very glad that I’m not getting constant pleas to buy their software. And, it loaded last year’s info just fine!nnI haven’t efiled, yet - but that went well last year & I’m expecting it to go fine this year, too.

It works fine - User interface a bit different from Turbo Tax.nMain reason I switched - I Hate being Marketed to death by Turbo Tax!