How to keep Windows XP SP2 safer after Microsoft stops patching

Patches for the venerable service pack end Tuesday, but you can help protect your PC until you get SP3

With these free and low-cost downloads, you can customize and tweak Windows 7 just about any way you wish

Never mind trying to virtualize the desktop. Microsoft says application virtualization is where the momentum is

The shuffling of leadership positions at Microsoft comes weeks before the vendor’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, DC

Time to act isn’t now, it was yesterday, says Softchoice

Apple is on top, and the time of the PC is ended

While Apple may be running away with the mobile consumer apps race, in the enterprise things are getting very interesting

Learn how to put AppLocker, BitLocker to Go, security accounts, and other key Windows 7 security improvements to good use

Application developers have little interest in the Windows Mobile platform, making it even harder to interest users

Vendors and VARs need to think more holistically about their customer’s professional and personal needs

The U.S. Appeals Court refuses to hear yet another Microsoft appeal of a jury’s US$240-million award for IP infringement of the Toronto company

An opinionated look back at the good, the bad and the ugly of Microsoft’s 35-year history

Admins are divorcing the aging OS to hook up with sexier Windows 7 trophy

Windows Phone 7, Microsoft’s revamped answer to the Apple iPhone and the Blackberry, is exected to be front and centre at MIX10

A new study of IT certifications shows Cisco, Microsoft certifications increase high-tech salaries