An internal list of the most popular requests for improving Windows has been leaked, giving a glimpse of what users want in the next version of Windows. Strangely, 'make Firefox the default browser' is not one of them.
When Microsoft announced Windows Home Server earlier this year, it was greeted with a mixture of curious disdain and eagerness. Some questioned what the product offered over existing solutions, while others welcomed it with open arms. It's at once hard to explain and easy to understand what Windows Home Server is, but it's worth getting to know…
You gotta love job postings. Depending on the description provided, you can often times determine some underlying plans for a company. And the only companies we care about in this regard would be the ones big enough to lend some interesting job postings and descriptions. In this case, WebProNews was tipped off to a posting from Microsoft, and …
Zune 2 and its batch of new features are finally upon us, bringing new players and an entirely new experience. Read on to find out how Microsoft has managed to change a lot on the one hand, and very little on the other—then see how the Zune stacks up against iTunes and iPod.
Turbine's DirectX 10 client for The Lord of the Rings Online is upon us. Though company admits that its DirectX 10 offers "minor visual upgrades," we seek to find what kind of performance penalty comes with the new DX10 code. All is not well in the land of Middle-Earth…with DX10.
You might have heard about Verizon's new 20/20 symmetric FiOS—a sweet 20Mbps upstream and down. But 20 ain't 100, and we're damn jealous of the Japanese, so we got on the phone and asked the guys managing Verizon's tubes what's around the bend. The scoop for citydwellers is that we can expect "not too distant" announcements about FiOS availability
A sophisticated new process crams up to 40% more transistors onto their 16 new chips.
Digg's original, real-time tracking page, Digg Spy, is one of the best and probably most overlooked ways to use the site. You can get a huge feel for the community from watching diggspy. User habits, hidden gems, new friends, bury brigade activity, URLs, agendas, speed…it's all there.
Benjamin Franklin long ago warned against rhetoric that demands trading individual rights for corporate security. Asking Americans to greenlight extensive, unchecked electronic surveillance by changing their very definition of privacy is a prime example of such rhetoric.
