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Windows XP refuses to die. Nine years after the OS first landed on the scene, an approximate 74-percent of business users are still saddled with it. To make matters worse, the average age of the PC running the outdated software is 4.4-years old, which means a vast majority of users are running already outdated software on hardware that is quickly approaching obsolescence, itself. Windows 7 is ...

Our friends over at Engadget obsessively cover everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics, which is why we compile this daily roundup of their top stuff (or, at least, what we think is tops). For more details on any of these stories, click on the Engadget links in each story below. Vista SP2 Released Waiting for a security update for Windows Vista? Wait no more. Vista Service Pack 2 is ...

Share If you're a Windows user, it pretty much goes without saying that you've encountered a frozen program before. Often these jammed apps get labeled with the dreaded "Not Responding" message and simply refuse to do anything, even close. Usually, the only solution is to open the task manager, find the appropriate process, and choose to close it. Fortunately, a quicker and easier way exists. ...

If you count yourself among the throngs of Windows Vista users who have been perpetually perturbed by Vista's constant prompt windows (known as User Account Controls, or UAC), you may soon be breathing easy. According to IT World, Microsoft developers are claiming that Windows 7 will feature 29-percent fewer UAC prompts than its oft-hated-on predecessor. "We've reduced 16 different points of ...

Okay, even we have to admit this is getting a bit insane here. Are you people never happy? Everyone complained that Windows XP left much to be desired in the security department. So Microsoft made some changes, took some notes from the Mac OS X and Linux playbook, and required users to elevate privileges via the User Account Control (UAC) anytime changes were made to the system (resulting in ...

It's not like (PRODUCT) RED versions of Windows Vista haven't been shipping on associated systems for months now, but for those who'd prefer to keep the rig they have and just get a colorful / charitable upgrade to Microsoft's latest OS, this is for you. Listed on the official (PRODUCT) RED website and up for pre-order now at Amazon, the special edition of Windows Vista Ultimate is slated to ship ...

We've certainly shown, again and again, how Windows XP has no shortage of security flaws, but thus far Vista has been relatively free of issues. That's good news for Microsoft, since Vista looks like it will provide the foundation of the upcoming Windows 7. However, one crack in that foundation has been discovered that could allow hackers to corrupt the core of the system and hide software on ...

If you spend your day sitting at a desk at a computer, when do you boot up your machine? If you do it when you get in, do you count that time spent booting toward your overall workday? Or, do you come in ahead of time to let it boot up? We're guessing there aren't many people getting out of bed 15 minutes earlier just to make sure their computers are logged in and warmed up precisely at 9:00 am ...

digg_url ='http://digg.com/microsoft/A_Big_Change_For_PC_Users'; While Windows Vista (launched in early 2007) addressed a number of Window's XP's biggest issues, most notably a much needed security refresh, Microsoft's most current operating system (OS) came with its own string of new headaches, like incessant pop-ups and some frustrating incompatibilities (not to mention its own set of ...

It's been a hard knock life for Windows Vista, Microsoft's latest and greatest, and according to a presentation given at last week's Black Hat security conference in Vegas, it's not going to get any easier from here on out. Two security experts, Mark Dowd from IBM and Alexander Sotirov from VMware, indicated that they have found a critical flaw in that operating system's Web browsing habits that ...

Are those windows of yours looking a little smudged lately? No, we're not talking about the windows in your house or apartment, or the windshield of your car. Instead, we at Switched, like many other consumers and tech watchers out there, are looking at the somewhat confusing view put forward by Microsoft and computer makers for the future of Windows the operating system. Windows Vista was ...

Though Microsoft isn't requiring computer manufacturers to fully transition to building Windows Vista-based systems until January of next year, Dell jumped out ahead of the pack early and promised to complete the switch before the end of this past March. However, it seems the world's second-largest PC maker was a little too quick on the draw. Word is out today that after a flood of requests ...