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VINO-TECH TEL. NO. +27 21 4395412, MOBILE +27 721820439, P O BOX 595, GREEN POINT, 8051 For Safaris & Adventure Trips visit: http://african-safaris--adventure-trips.blogspot.com/ For Long & Short-term Accommodation: http://cape-town-accommdaton.blogspot.com/ G'Day All Wishing you all well for the long weekend. Please drive carefully as the roads are especially wet and slippery. PERSONAL FINANCE (source: Iafrica.com) It becomes legal for you to lease a car from 1 June this year, when the National Credit Act comes into effect. This means that soon you will be able to drive a car that would normally be well out of your price range... while at the same time saving on tax. But what is the difference between leasing a car and buying one on residual? And which is going to be cheaper for you in the long term? iafrica.com's expert Iona Minton says just before you dash out to lease a car,
check whether it will really benefit you. The introduction of the National Credit Act holds a number of other benefits for you, too. The irritation of receiving marketing rubbish, unless you specifically say you don't want it, becomes a thing of the past. Moreover, if you're blacklisted, the act could ensure you have your name removed from the credit bureaux when the new laws are implemented in just over a month's time. Just a word of warning, though: this doesn't mean your debt doesn't have to be repaid. THINKING OF BUYING A NEW PC OR UPGRADING FROM XP TO VISTA? Microsoft admitted what we have been saying all along, Vista, aka Windows
Me Two (Me II), is a joke that no one wants. Dell announced that it would be offering XP again on home PCs. The second that Vista came out, Microsoft makes it very hard for you to sell anything other than Me II. It can't do this on the business side because it would be laughed out the door, but for the walking sheep class, well, you take what you are shovelled. The other equally monumental Me II failure? Gates in China launching a $3 version of bundled XP. Why is this not altruism? Well, it goes back to piracy and how it helped enforce the MS monopoly. If you can easily pirate Windows, Linux has no price advantage, they both cost zero. With Me II, Microsoft made it very hard to pirate. It is do-able, you can use the BIOS hack and probably a host of others, but the point is, it raised the bar enough so lots of people have to buy it. Want to bet that in a country with $100 average monthly salary, people aren't going to shell out $299 for Me II Broken Edition?
So, it did the unthinkable, and dropped the price. I won't bother to hunt down all the exec quotes saying how people can't afford clean water would be overjoyed to sell kidneys to upgrade to the new version of Office, but they are out there. This was a sacred cow, and it is now hamburger backed up against the wall. What we are seeing is an unprecedented shift of power. It is also an unprecedented admission of failure. And the funniest part about the moves made? They are the wrong things to do. Microsoft is in deep trouble. MOTHERS' DAY SPECIAL For any order of 2 X 12 or more you get a typical American backed Lemon Cheesecake topped with strawberries. Or if you really want to spoinl her, contact me regarding a special cooked meal delivered to your home. Or anything else you can think of. PLEASE E-MAIL ALL ORDERS TO vino-tech@telkomsa.net Remember, if you can’t find something, we’ll find it for you! Whether it be wine, food, accommodation or safaris & event/functions
Janine SmithVINO-TECH (Proprietor)N.Dip (Mkt), CNE, MCP, NSW
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