This will be a big year for new operating systems. Apple (AAPL) plans a new version of its Macintosh operating system, to be called Snow Leopard. Palm (PALM) plans an all-new smart phone operating system called Palm WebOS. But the new release that will affect more users than any other will be Window...

Ever since the Microsoft Windows 7 Beta became available for download, the world continues to be abuzz with what it is like, what it is not like, what it has, what it hasn’t, what Microsoft got right, what it hasn’t,… David Murphy of PCWorld took a “72 hours of Windows 7� challenge and he ...

There is no doubt, Microsoft is going to dominate the operating system market through Windows 7. Who knows where we will be after that. At that point we will likely be looking at some type of open source product, such as Ubuntu?  Maybe even we’ll move to our smart phone(s) full time? Whatever...

Filed under: Windows, Freeware There are plenty of things the Windows shell does really well, but there are other relatively minute details that have been overlooked since Windows 95 that really piss us off - like the ability to click and drag taskbar buttons. Thankfully, this 600k app that will let...

For several years I’ve been taking my private laptop to work, like most of my colleagues. Often I’m asked to set up a laptop for a guest talk, and many times I had to provide my own computer for the presentation. Frankly, I hate to share my own, private laptop, however for a long time it...

Moving the Windows taskbar from the bottom to the right side of the screen was probably the greatest layout change that I ever made or had to cope with since I started with Windows 95. The taskbar was at the bottom for more than ten years and one day I have decided to move it from that position to t...

(Click to Enlarge) One thing that many Vista complaints have in common is that they nearly all say that “it’s not Longhorn.” That’s true, Microsoft made a lot of changes along the road of Vista’s development, and they burned through new concepts faster than a Hummer bur...