Surface Pro reviews are in…

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… and the results may surprise you.Or maybe not.InfoWorld Tech Watch. [Link fixed. Thanks, everybody, for pointing it out! BTW, you can follow me on
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the link in this article doen not point to the article, but to a google search selection page.

enjoy your colums,

otto

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Dear Woody,

I’m having trouble getting to your Tech Watch article – it keeps redirecting me to set Google as default search engine???

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Your Tech Watch link for the “Surface Pro reviews are in” goes to https://www.google.com/homepage/search/help.html which is an annoying advert for the Google search engine. No sign of Surface Pro reviews!

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Ah… Woody…. check that link. The one I find goes to a Google Homepage site.

Keep up the good work man.

LarryP

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Hey link takes me to “make google your home page ” have I got a bug or is it your end ??

thanks J

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Woody,
I don’t know why, but every time I go to the Tech Watch link, a “make google your default search engine on home page” pops up, whether I am use the I-can’t-rid-of one on Firefox or the one on Chrome. Once I got a message from my machine, a little window, (paraphrase)”something is trying to change your homepage, do you want to keep it as is?” I did follow the instructions on Firefox to have google as my default search, which is what it was when “something” changed it (as described on the earlier blog entry about Questions still remain about JAVA – which is deleted). It couldn’t. I am just watching…resisting…It didn’t interfere with my posting this comment.

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#2, Woody, It’s Delta took over the Firefox home page search and the rest is as described in my first comment. It doesn’t feel like something is in control of my machine, but I wonder.

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The surprise is that the link goes to https://www.google.com/homepage/search/help.html

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Hi Woody,
It appears you have a broken link here – I am being sent to https://www.google.com/homepage/search/help.html which asks me to make google my default search provicer when I click the Tech Watch link.
Wendell

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The Tech Watch link points to Google search. I’d much rather read your piece, Woody (grin).

Regards,

MM

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Google Homepage… Color me surprised! LOL

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The Tech Watch article link seems to be wrong – goes to the Google search help page.

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@Sanda –

My bad. I posted the wrong link.

The notification about changing your home page means you installed an obnoxious program that felt it should be able to take over your home page. Not clear if it asked for your permission to take over the home page or not, but the extra hook is in there to make sure you know about it.

Delta is a painful piece of malware. See http://www.411-spyware.com/remove-delta-search-redirect

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Woody,
Thanks so much. I went to the link, but it’s not listed as Delta redirect,etc. nor do I know what CNET freebee I installed it with, other than recently putting Firefox as reinstall. So I think I’ll do the Microsoft Essentials Scan and see if that helps, after I get the Microsoft updates (without NET)…and I’ll get back to you when I can.
Again,thanks.

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#2, Woody, I see now that it’s taken over both Chrome and Firefox. I’m wondering, if all else fails, if I should use those Factory discs I burned with the original programs and wipe everything out. Sound right?

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Naw. No need to reinstall. Shoot me email with a summary – woody at ask woody dot com

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Woody,
The new Surface Pro sold out almost as soon as the store opened in Manhattan on Sat.- the only ten inches of snow was plowed and shoveled/snow blowed. They took names for wait list. I think you told in an article about the RT, that when it went on sale, they didn’t have enough to look like there was heavy interest. I think that’s what they did on Sat.,Feb. 9, the release date for Surface Pro.

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Sanda –

I think you’re right…

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