Gizmodo:
March, 2007: Windows Vista's initial sales are great, "more than doubling" those of its predecessor, Windows XP. Flash forward to November, 2009: Windows 7 initial sales are 234% higher than Vista's. Those numbers sound awful (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Apparently we won't have to deal with upgrading our Microsoft-driven computers for another three years. According to a tentative roadmap, the next version of the OS, Windows 8, won't be arriving until 2012. This release date (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Black Friday is a week away, and thousands of markdowns are already announced. Our master list of Giz-friendly deals—a hefty read—includes similar items priced differently at different stores. Keep it refreshed, cuz we'll be (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Microsoft put far more work into the look and themes of Windows 7 than its previous operating systems. Pull down that design work into your non-7-system with Digital Inspiration's simple work-arounds. You can't just grab the (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Courts ruled that Chinese language editions of Windows 98 SE, 2000, XP, Server 2003 will be banned from being sold in China due to Microsoft infringing on the intellectual property of a Beijing-based software company. By usin (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Windows: Wanna give Office 2010's online document syncing, Windows 7 taskbar integration, and killer quick steps a go? Microsoft has thrown open the doors on a free beta of Office 2010 Professional—for those who can wait out (Read More)
Engadget:
Hey, man -- aren't you sick of all the pain and expense of mounting disc images from the desktop? OK, we weren't either -- until we saw this: Umazone's UMA-ISO is a drive enclosure (supply your own 2.5-inch HDD) that features (Read More)
Ars Technica:
As Windows 2000 was being developed in the second half ofthe 1990s, Microsoft was firmly focused on building in as much functionalityas possible, in a play to push Novell Netware (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Adam thinks XBMC is the best media center around, but I roll with Boxee for its awesome content apps. Here's how I turned a relatively cheap, yet surprisingly powerful home theater PC into a DIY Boxee Box for my HDTV. Why go (Read More)
Engadget:
When Sony's VAIO W netbook was released, we said the company would "have to do better than put a pretty face on a vanilla set of innards to get our next five Benjamins." So what has the company done to raise the appeal of its (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Time and time again, people tell me that they've bought an external hard drive to backup their pictures, music, and documents. Great, right? Sadly, that's not always the case. There's one simple rule about backups that everyb (Read More)
Engadget:
AT&T just added a pair of Windows 7 Starter netbooks to its stable, and while we've got nothing against the Samsung Go and the Acer Aspire One, we just can't help but feel preloading 7 Starter makes the already-dubious subsid (Read More)
Engadget:
It's well established by now that the Kohjinsha PA series tablet is one peculiar creature. It has the internals and OS of a netbook, with a 1.33GHz Atom CPU and Windows XP Home, the 4.8-inch display of a portable MID, and the (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Thank you Meijer, for aiming low this Black Friday. Our readers may/may not want a Sylvania 1080P 42-inch TV or Blu-ray player, but they'll be on sale for $499 and $89, respectively. Plus, $9 Blu-ray movies and cheap video ga (Read More)
Engadget:
It makes sense to release your mostly-theoretical (so far, anyway) desktop OS-based slider handset with the world's newest and best version of Windows, but it when your slider handset is dubbed "xpPhone" things become a bit m (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Generally speaking, upgrading to Windows 7 is a no-brainer. "But what about my gadgets?" you might ask, eyes watering slightly, "will they be OK?" Yes, yes they will. Here's how to make Windows 7 play nice with all your favor (Read More)
Engadget Mobile:
Filed under: Handsets, Others, Windows Mobile, EV-DO, CDMAIn just one week, ViewSonic has gone from a glint of a 3G phone maker to having two models prominently on display. We've already seen VPC08 Windows XP phone, and now u (Read More)
Gizmodo:
A new order page reveals some surprising new info on the netbook-like xpPhone. Turns out that 4.3-, 4.8- and tablet-style 7-inch touchscreen versions will be available, and you'll be to add a 5-megapixel camera, Windows 7, an (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Windows 7 and Ubuntu, despite their opposing missions, can get along like best pals on a single computer. Here's how to set up a dual boot system that lets you enjoy the best of both worlds in perfect harmony. By default, Win (Read More)
Gizmodo:
If I have trouble concentrating on a 30-inch panoramic monitor, I can't imagine myself in front of the eight monitors the single-slot Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 graphics card can drive, each at 2560 x 1600 pixels. The $1995 Matrox (Read More)