After my colleague, John Lister, published a post about Microsoft’s new free security suite some questions were raised about what this means for Symantec and McAfee.  The new software dubbed “Morrow” by the company is replacing [...]

If you’ve spent minutes on end waiting for Vista to start up or shutdown, you might think nothing could be more painful. But for some employees, the real pain comes when they look through their paychecks.

Microsoft is claiming that Windows 7 will be everything Vista wasn’t.  Fast to boot, UAC that actually works and improve performance.  At least so far it is faster to boot so the company isn’t lying on that front.  It even runs better than Vista [...]

Microsoft is launching a free anti-virus service for Windows users. If it takes off, it could be a serious threat to commercial security products.

The system, codenamed Morro, will launch in the second half of 2009. To make way, Microsoft will drop its existing [...]

Windows 7 won’t be released until next year at the earliest, but that hasn’t stopped would-be pirates exploring ways to get round measures designed to stop people using illegal copies. The interest has been sparked by the first distribution of physical copies of [...]

The 64-bit edition of Windows Vista continues to gain in market share. However, some are questioning whether it’s really an important issue for consumers, or if it might even cause more problems than it solves.

Newly released court documents confirm Microsoft relaxed its criteria for declaring a computer ‘Vista Capable’ after lobbying from Intel. The chipmaker complained that the original rules would exclude some of its products and cause lost business in the billions.

One of the biggest complaints I have heard about the Windows Vista operating system is the number of pre-Vista programs that either won’t run properly, or won’t run at all. There are generally three reasons why this happens.

Security experts say one of the vulnerabilities fixed by this week’s Windows Update has been a known problem since at least 2001. The Server Message Block issue has even been used in security training events.

This month’s Patch Tuesday update is, by Microsoft standards, fairly quiet. There is only one fix rated critical and one rated important, though the firm does warn both the associated vulnerabilities are at particular risk of exploitation.

The popular AVG anti-virus program has wreaked havoc for some XP users by leading them to mistakenly delete a core system file. It’s left some people unable to start Windows at all.

The problem affects some users with versions 7.5 and 8.0 of the [...]

Microsoft has revealed that printers are the devices most likely to cause driver problems in Vista. Nearly 12% of attempted installations fail, around four times Microsoft’s own target.

The figures emerged at last week’s Microsoft conference for hardware partners. The firm’s Chris Matichuk unveiled the [...]

Microsoft has unveiled steps to make solid state drives run far more efficiently in Windows 7. It’s the third boost for the technology announced this week.

Leading manufacturer SanDisk has just announced a new filewriting system which makes much more effective use of the [...]

While small businesses and large companies have had a hard time shifting to Vista, mid-level companies and organizations have had the hardest time overall due to a number of factors.  Beyond simple hardware complications, internally-modified software isn’t meshing well [...]

Solid State Drives (SSDs) have always underperformed when coupled with Windows Vista.  SanDisk’s new file system method now being used on its SSDs aims to change all that.

Daily Tech is reporting that SanDisk has unveiled a [...]