Are you a big fan of Microsoft Windows XP? Perhaps you are not quite a fan at all of Windows Vista? Well guess what? Your choice of a Windows Operating System is about to vanish!

After (or is it on?) June 30th, Microsoft is refusing to provide any more boxed copies of Windows XP to stores for purchase. Though, Microsoft might continue selling copies of Windows XP to computer makers and system builders so that they can “pre-install” XP as the operating system for a new computer.

You can read more details on this by clicking here

The Paladin finds this to be a very sad story indeed, though not for reasons you may think…

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The Paladin was very surprised recently as he came across an article by the Washington Post regarding U.S. Customs Agents seizing laptops, cell phones, PDAs and other electronics at the border and keeping them sometimes for weeks on end.

You can access the original article by clicking here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/06/AR2008020604763.html

This story is quite an eye-opener.

For instance, Customs Agents can demand that you enter passwords or whatever else is needed to access your computer and open up the digital contents to them. They can also keep your laptop or other electronic device for days, completely copying its contents, before returning it to you.

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Greetings Citizens of the Realm!

The Paladin is proud to announce the opening of our new online store: The Computer Paladin’s Armory. The store can be reached via several links on the site, including the left-hand navigation bar.

The store carries products that fulfill the roles mentioned in the Computer Defense Tools & Essentials portion of the site. These tools will be delivered right to your door and come complete with the security and confidence of shopping at one of the Internet’s most established and trusted names: Amazon.com.

MyComputerPaladin is proud to be an “associate” of Amazon.com. What we have done is select a manageable subset of products from Amazon’s massive offering and distilled them down to a small range of choices for you. While MyComputerPaladin does receive a small amount of compensation from Amazon.com for any purchases you make through our store, the cost to you is the same as if you had searched Amazon.com’s massive catalog directory yourself and purchased them from Amazon.com’s site. Your purchases through our store help support this site as an online resource, and you gain all the benefits of shopping at one of the Internet’s most respected retail sites.

We would also like to take this opportunity to point out that MyComputerPaladin.com has no association with and receives no compensation from any products that we list in our store, other than the previously mentioned small commission we receive from Amazon.com. If this should change in the future we will point it out in a post.

We state this because we want you to know that we do not steer you towards specific products due to any compensation that we receive. We present you with the information you need to make an informed decision and let you choose for yourself. We select what we feel is a good selection of appropriate products from established vendors, but certainly invite you to choose your own merchant and products.

Our primary goal is to teach you proper computing principles and techniques and then allow you to choose for yourself.

Your support is appreciated, but first and foremost we are dedicated to educating you in the ways of the computer. For knowledge is the key to your freedom and salvation.

We thank you for your time, and please pass our site URL along to your friends and family if you feel we have been of help to you.

With the greatest of apprecation,

MyComputerPaladin.com Staff