Why we need Windows 8

You’ll read lots of reviews out there describing Windows 8 as a schizophrenic operating system. All those reviews are true. No need to repeat them here. The separation between Windows 7 functionality and

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 27th, 2013 Brian Bourne

How to run Windows applications on your Mac

People that buy an Apple Macintosh computer are making a deliberate choice to go Mac, but some may regret the wider world of Windows applications they leave behind, if not necessarily the Windows

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 15th, 2013 Jeff Jedras

Market Windows 8 to your customers before final release

by Stuart Crawford  The perfect storm is brewing and you have no excuse to get out in front of your clients, the marketplace or your industry associations and show off Windows 8. Stuart

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: June 8th, 2012 Stuart Crawford

Windows 8 Enterprise embraces BYOD

Microsoft has bowed to the age of consumerization and 'bring your own device' (BYOD), announcing features in the next version of its business OS, Windows 8 Enterprise, it hopes will fit in with

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 20th, 2012 John E. Dunn

Windows 8 upgrade path from Vista, XP still unclear

Microsoft today declined to confirm whether users of Windows XP and Vista will be able to upgrade their PCs to Windows 8 when the latter launches later this year.On Monday, Microsoft spelled out

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 18th, 2012 Gregg Keizer

Office 2007 support extended by six months

Microsoft has extended the mainstream support period for Office 2007 by six months to align the suite's lifecycle with a little-known provision in the company's support policy.Although it's unclear when Microsoft added the

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 12th, 2012 Gregg Keizer

Ubuntu Linux 12.04 helps ensure privacy

Say the word "privacy," and most of us think of online privacy--along with the never-ending battle against spyware, tracking, and other opponents of the cause. What many people don't realize, however, is that

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 9th, 2012 Katherine Noyes

Why Apple’s OS X is a resource and security nightmare

The Mac is back in the enterprise. Last year sales of Apple's flagship computer to business jumped substantially, growing 44 per cent compared in Q3 with a paltry 5.3 per cent increase for

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 9th, 2012 Mark Everett Hall

Run Windows Software on Linux with Wine 1.4

As free and open source software continues to become more powerful and more prevalent, there's less and less need to choose anything else. It's not at all surprising, for example, to see the

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 8th, 2012 Katherine Noyes

How to get more desktop space using OS X Lion

Spaces is a feature in OS X Lion that allows you to have multiple desktops, which can be handy when you're working in more than one application and in different documents. Spaces is

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 2nd, 2012 Roman Loyola

Hands on review of Windows Server 8 beta

Leap Day brought with it the chance to download the beta release of the next version of Microsoft's server platform, along with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and first looks at the next

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 1st, 2012 Computerworld Staff

5 Ways Windows 8 will help apps cut power consumption

The Windows 8 beta will be available by the end of February, and Microsoft has given much thought into optimizing it to run well not just on desktops and laptops, but also on

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 10th, 2012 Joseph Fieber

Windows 8 tablets miss CES, will have five-point multi-touch

Five-finger multi-touch, 720p cameras and 1366-by-768 resolution screens will be among the requirements for Windows 8 tablets, according to documentation from Microsoft.Rafael Rivera, who blogs at Within Windows, picked through Microsoft's Windows 8

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: January 18th, 2012 Jared Newman and Melissa J. Perenson

Top 6 technologies to watch for at CES 2012

Just like snowflakes, every Consumer Electronics Show is special.Or at the very least, every CES comes with its own special buzz technology. "It" technologies in recent years have included tablets (a big hit)

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: January 9th, 2012 Brad Reed