The most successful version of Windows - and the one that people will probably be very reluctant to give up using - is beginning a 1000-day countdown to the end of support from its parent company.

IE9 is here - in final form at last, as XP lovin’ users watch it just zoom right past. Windows 7 gets to see a web of beauty spun, but for XP users all - it won’t even get a run!

Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away. After handing out the pre-Christmas 2010 gift of Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 they’re doing the exactly opposite with Windows SteadyState which will not be available for download after 31 December this year. This puts Windows XP and Windows Vista users of this handy management tool for shared computers into a bind — but it doesn’t affect Windows 7 users because they can’t use it anyway!

Microsoft's support for XP is winding down with users being encouraged to move to Service Pack 3 or, better yet, Windows 7. Support officially ends on 13 July 2010.

A new product from virtualisation specialist Parallels promises to take the pain out of upgrading to Windows 7.

How often have you heard the words "it's difficult to get this software/hardware working on Linux, that's why it hasn't caught the mass imagination"?

Australia's PC market defied expectations and ended 2009 strongly, buoyed by an increase in consumer spending and lifecycle refreshes on government contracts to record a six percent sequential and a 10 percent  year-on-year growth for the fourth quarter last year.

Obviously not getting the results they wanted through email phishing scams, it looks like cyber-criminals are turning to the telephone to get malicious software onto home computers.

Here we go again, the world’s largest software company has released a patch that, in conjunction with its malware removal tool, is unable to detect systems with malware, or is suffering other problems that cause Windows XP machines to crash, crash and crash again - with a fix that requires you to find your XP installation CD!

Just three months after its general availability to the public, Microsoft’s latest Windows 7 operating system now accounts for 10% of all Internet browsing. Yet corporations are still unmoved.