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Microsoft issues its biggest-ever security fix

Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) issued its biggest-ever security fix on Tuesday, including repairs to its ubiquitous Windows operating system and Internet browser for flaws that could let hackers take control of a PC.

PC Magazine Publishes Best Free Software for 2010

Every year PC Magazine compiles a list of Best Free Software. This year's collection contains 196 programs sorted into 30 categories, all of which cost nothing.

Surprise, surprise: "Windows Safer Than Mac" says chief hacker

The organizer of the Pwn2Own hacking contest claims that Windows 7 is found to be more secure than Snow Leopard, and that Safari will be the first browser to fall victim in the upcoming hacking contest. Not all hackers agree that Windows 7 is more secure than Snow Leopard.

Windows Azure reaches general availability stage; Microsoft starts charging for cloud computing platform

Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) on Monday launched its Windows Azure cloud computing platform as a paid service, but smaller companies are unlikely to be among its first customers. That's because Azure doesn't currently include a pricing option that makes sense for smaller applications.

How to build your own Windows Home Server rig

Michael Brown Computer World 04/01/2009
How to build your own Windows Home Server rig

Recycle an old PC or build out a bare-bones system with Windows Home Server

Can Dell's Adamo Make Windows PCs Sexy?

Looking at Dell's new Adamo laptop is a bit like watching a guy 50-year-old guy enter his mid-life crisis. And that guy just might be the Adamo's target customer--someone with $2,000 to plunk down on an underpowered laptop, but would rather run Vista Home Premium than OS X.

Microsoft Blames Azure Outage on OS Upgrade

Elizabeth Montalbano PC World 03/18/2009

Past Was Guide for Changes to Windows Development

Elizabeth Montalbano PC World 03/09/2009
Microsoft Blames Azure Outage on OS Upgrade

Microsoft is blaming a routine OS upgrade for an outage that hit its Windows Azure cloud-computing infrastructure over the weekend.

Past Was Guide for Changes to Windows Development

About a year ago on its Redmond, Washington, campus, a member of Microsoft's Windows Vista team met with a group of journalists to face some tough questions about the OS.

Windows XP to Windows 7 upgrades: Difficult, but not impossible

Scott M. Fulton, III Beta News  02/23/2009
Apple helps Microsoft get Windows 7 righ

"When you strike at a king, you must kill him," said the great Transcendentalist, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Apple, in toying with but not killing Microsoft in enterprise computing, has unwittingly granted its rival a new lease on life with Windows 7.

Windows XP to Windows 7 upgrades: Difficult, but not impossible

Early indications from Microsoft are that Windows 7 setup will only work on Vista-based computers. But if you're running XP, you may not be out of options.


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