All hard drive manufacturers have announced the first wave of 3TB (that’s 3 Terabytes) hard drives in the first half of 2010, and first 3TB hard drives like the Western Digital Caviar Green WD30EZRSDTL 3TB are now available. These high capacity hard drives will work fine for users running Windows Vista, Windows 7 or a [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Web developers have several options to test their web projects in different web browsers. Among the available choices are virtual operating system images that provide access to specific web browsers. Microsoft has just updated a set of Internet Explorer application compatibility VPC images that are available as a free download for Windows operating systems compatible [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer, Web Development

Windows XP Service Pack 2 users may have noticed that the latest Microsoft out of band security patch released a few days ago was not offered for their operating system. Neither Windows Update, nor the direct download via Microsoft Downloads listed the security patch. Windows XP SP3 users, and newer Microsoft operating system users, were [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Windows 7, for the first time, has surpassed Windows Vista in operating system market share according to three popular companies that track OS market share over time. StatCounter, the W3Schools OS platform statistics and NetMarketShare have recorded a steady rise of Windows 7 ever since its introduction in October 2009. Overall numbers differ because of [...]

Categories: Operating Systems

A vulnerability in Windows Help and Support Center was discovered recently that could allow remote code execution on affected systems. Only Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are affected by it. Microsoft is aware of limited targeted attacks that exploit the vulnerability. These attacks use specially crafted links on web pages or email messages with [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Windows 7 has been gaining market share ever since it has been released in October 2009. The latest operating system market share trends, courtesy of NetMarketshare, has seen another strong month for Microsoft’s latest operating system which managed to gain another percentage mainly at the expense of its predecessor Windows Vista but also the market [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Windows

Things are not looking bright for users of the Windows XP operating system as companies are starting to drop Windows XP support or compatibility. Microsoft for one said that the upcoming Windows Live Wave 4 suite would not support Windows XP at all. Windows Live is a collection of popular applications including Windows Messenger, Windows [...]

Categories: Windows

Not many users have problems running software on Windows 7 as the operating system seems to be compatible with most available programs. Microsoft has nevertheless added the so called Windows XP Mode to the operating system that provides access to a virtual Windows XP system that integrates smoothly into the Windows 7 operating system. The [...]

Categories: Windows

Reports about blue screens began to appear on the Internet shortly after the release of this month’s security patches for the Windows operating system. Especially Windows XP users seemed to have been affected by the crashes which were first thought to be linked to the update. Microsoft addressed the issue shortly after reports began to [...]

Categories: Security, Windows