5 must-try Windows email applications – Beta News (Backup)

You should also consider an upgrade if you’re still using Windows Mail (Vista) or Outlook Express (Windows XP or earlier). In this roundup we’ve sourced five alternative email programs, some free, others not so, and put them through their paces to see

Windows 8 Will Be Great For PC Games, Forget 7 or XP – Softpedia (Free Scan)

Microsoft’s next operating system, Windows 8, will be great for games and relaunch PC gaming as a whole, according to a new report coming from an inside source. Versions of the Windows Operating System are powering most of the computers out there, but

NEX Computing Solutions Offers Windows XP Pro Embedded – PRLog (free press release)
PRLog (Press Release) – Dec 21, 2010 – Chandler, AZ., – December 7, 2010 – Providing operating systems for long life to complement embedded solutions, NEX Computing Solutions announced its participation in the Microsoft Windows Embedded Partner Program

The outlook for Windows 7 with Google Chrome coming up – Seattle Times
Demand for Windows 7 has been pent-up over the past few years because many companies stuck with Windows XP instead of upgrading to Windows Vista, which is Windows 7′s immediate predecessor. Microsoft plans to stop supporting the last version of Windows XP in 2014.

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Microsoft gearing up to reintroduce iPad competitors running Windows 7 – Apple Insider
The primary UMPC device was Samsung’s $1300 Q1, which ran both Windows XP (upgradable to Vista) as well as Microsoft’s mobile Windows CE (since rebranded as “Windows XP Embedded” to escape the stigma of Windows CE’s past failures.) In 2006, Gartner said

Solutions: Back up, then make the switch from Vista to Windows 7 – St. Petersburg Times
You need to look for the Boot Sequence setting. Otherwise, your remaining solution would be to boot from a borrowed Windows XP source CD and choose the Recovery option to see if it can repair your Windows installation. If nothing works and you have vital

Three Simple Ways to Recover Windows XP Password – Associated Content
This may happen when you attempt to log in to your Windows XP and you realize you lost the password. Just because you can’t remember or some hackers had change your password. It’s easy to gain access to Windows after losing user account password. Just

Make Windows More Useful (and Fun) with WindowFX 4.0 – MLive.com
WindowFX is a special effects program for Windows that allows users to add a variety of opening and closing, transition and other visual effects to the user interface. Available now via a 30-day trial or $9.95 from Stardock, WindowFX is also a part of the

Microsoft Windows XP Professional Complete Product – PC World
Strengths: Very stable. Fast reboot. Weaknesses: However, my reboot is not as fast as other reboots I have seen on other pc’s. I think it may be my computer. Overall Evaluation: I use this product on my laptop and my desktop pc at home. I have found it to

Microsoft Windows 7-Based Tablets Won’t Work: 10 Reasons Why – eWeek
There’s a long history there Let’s not forget that Microsoft has been heavily invested in the tablet space for years. Windows XP Tablet Edition is one of the more notable tablet offerings extant. Yet, it never caught on much beyond the enterprise.

Explainer: where, how and why would China get the source code (Hardware malfunctions) to Microsoft’s Windows? – TMCnet

The source code is a human-readable set of around 50m lines (for Windows XP, released in 2001) to 75m lines (for Windows Vista) is what is used to “build” or “compile it” into machine-readable code the Windows program that runs those computers. Microsoft

Understanding Microsoft Windows XP – informIT
Michael Miller provides an overview of what Windows XP is and how to navigate its interface in this guide created for those who are entirely new to computing. Miller describes such computing fundamentals as clicking and doubleclicking, dragging, and

Windows 7 Erodes XP and Vista, Is Close to 20% of the OS Market – Softpedia
Windows XP continues to be the dominant platform on the operating system market, but its user base is slipping away at a steady pace. Windows Vista was never made for greatness, and its share of the OS market has also been shrinking slowly but surely, not

‘Nightmare’ kernel bug lets attackers evade Windows UAC security – Computerworld
The bug is in the “win32k.sys” file, a part of the kernel, and exists in all versions of Windows, including XP, Vista, Server 2003, Windows 7 and Server 2008, said Sophos researcher Chet Wisniewski in a Thursday blog post. Several security companies

Slow Death for Windows Vista – Packaged Software End of Sales Reached in October – Softpedia
But fact is that the date marked an important milestone for the successor of Windows XP, namely Packaged Software End of Sales. As of October 22, per the new lifecycle changes introduced by the Redmond company, sales of boxed versions of Vista were

Newly discovered Windows kernel flaw bypasses UAC – Ars Technica
While technically true, this is missing the point: this flaw works on Windows XP, which has no UAC, and it works even if UAC is disabled. It also allows privilege escalations that UAC doesn’t, as it allows attackers to run malicious code with kernel

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