Even with more and more companies transitioning their machines to Windows 7, Windows XP still accounts for 60 percent of the market according to a recent report conducted by Forrester Research, Inc. Please keep in mind that all of the following numbers and figures were taken from March data. According to the 400,000 machines from more »

Even though Windows 7 released less than a year ago, it has already passed its predecessor, Windows Vista in marketshare. Both Vista and 7 have 14.4% marketshare with Windows 7 having a couple more copies to edge out the battle. Of course both of these operating systems are dwarfed by their grandfather Windows XP which more »

Sure, everyone wants the latest and greatest. And while I am not going to argue one way or the other for Windows 7, it is the latest — at least as far as Windows is concerned. That aside though, it seems that quite a few people and work places are still running old software and more »

For netbooks, it’s obvious that Windows Vista is not the optimal operating system. Many people choose to downgrade to Windows XP as it runs faster and better than Vista when on those tiny computers. It also doesn’t come with the reputation that Vista received in its early days as a highly incompatible OS. But now more »

Microsoft has recently made the developer preview of the all-new Internet Explorer 9 available at http://www.ietestdrive.com/. Internet Explorer 9 will be supporting HTML5 video, and it sports a multi-core capable JavaScript engine codenamed “Chakra” (hear that engine roar!), and supporting new web technologies that gives it the edge like CSS3 and SVG2. The Chakra JavaScript more »

Microsoft is warning XP users not to press the F1 key if a website prompts them to. The company urges them to ignore the warning saying it could be an exploit using a newly discovered vulnerability in VBScript. A security advisory provided more info: “The vulnerability exists in the way that VBScript interacts with Windows more »

Microsoft’s latest security patch has left XP users with BSOD’s and unusable systems. The company’s support forums have been flooded with complaints from angry users since the release of MS10-015. “I updated 11 Windows XP updates today and restarted my PC like it asked me to,” said a user identified as “tansenroy” who kicked off more »

Perhaps in an effort to make it easier for users to upgrade to Windows 7 from XP or Vista, Microsoft has released an official upgrade chart — and to put it simply, the chart seems a little overwhelming at first glance. Diving in, to try and make some sense so you can make sure you more »

When Microsoft released Windows Vista, despite all the hype a lot of people decided to wait out the release to decide whether they should upgrade. We all know that after reports started coming in on how much Vista changed from XP along with some of the unspecified flaws that many users saw, a lot of more »

If you’ve decided to take the netbook plunge, you’re probably going to want to streamline the programs you use and get rid of any “crapware.” The real question is what applications do you really need for a netbook? Netbooks are meant to browse the web and take advantage of web services. Since they are somewhat underpowered, you need applications that use system resources efficiently so they don’t slow down your machine.