Everyone knows that Microsoft is trying to put Windows XP out to pasture to usher in the latest windows operating system, Windows Vista 7, the last date that direct OEM and retail license availability ended on June 30, 2008 and the System Builder license availability ended on January 31, 2009. But d...

I’ve finally jumped in and given Microsoft’s Virtual PC software a try. I guess I’m obviously a complete beginner though because I didn’t think about or realize that I’d need to have the installation software for the OS to be installed on the new virtual machine. Now I ...

I’m trying to get things back online and organized on my laptop for working with clients. One of the things I used to do is have many of the frequently used files for clients set to be available offline when I’m disconnected from our network. The problem was that I quickly ran out of ava...

Steve Ballmer has decided that, since netbooks are popular now, there must be a cheap server OS to ’serve’ these groups of netbooks. Where this leap in thought came from could be most anything, but I’d have to say my thoughts range to ‘chemically-induced’. Microsoft is ...

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at ZDNet  has delivered on what lots of people have probably been wanting to hear and see in plain black-and-white hard data. In a head-to-head battle between Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista SP1, what would the results show between the two combatants. Over the past few d...

Deb Shinder shared a feeling about the much advertised and promoted OS dysfunction in a recent issue of VistaNews. She shared her feelings around the Valentine’s Day holiday last week. But why does Vista inspire such animosity among so much of the neutral or Windows-centric press? Again, peopl...