• Windows 7 Deals Rile Vista Users

  
  Vista Ultimate users are fuming and ranting over the Windows 7 upgrade offers Microsoft is extending.

• Google Chrome OS: Does the World Need Another Operating System?

  
  The concept of an operating system has been turned inside out with the announcement of Chrome OS.
• Google OS May Force Microsoft to Reinvent Windows
• Google's Chrome OS Has 'Fail' Written All Over It
• Microsoft to Offer Family Discount on Windows 7?
• Blogosphere Buzzes About Promotion of Windows SVP
• Analysts Paint Chrome as Long-term Threat to Microsoft
• Windows 7 Upgrade FAQ
• 10 Free, Must-Have Windows Security Downloads
• Microsoft's Upcoming Patches May Hinder Hackers

Windows How-Tos

• Speed Up Your Windows XP Netbook Tired of your pokey performance from your petite PC? A simple Windows tweak can goose its operation.
• My PC Won't Boot When Keatlaretse boots his PC, it shuts itself down
• Insert a Copyright From the Keyboard BooBoo asked the Answer Line forum how to easily insert the copyright symbol (©)
• Customize Your Windows Desktop Learn how to reposition the taskbar, resize your icons, and save your desktop layout.
• Move the Taskbar to the Side of the Screen No, really! Windows 7 and netbook users in particular have much to gain by relocating the Taskbar to one side.

Windows News

• Microsoft's Upcoming Patches May Hinder Hackers Of the half-dozen patches, three will affect Windows, and one each will patch problems in Publisher, Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA) and Microsoft's Virtual PC and Virtual Server software.
• Blogosphere Buzzes About Promotion of Windows SVP Analysis: Bloggers cheer, sneer, and jeer about Windows Engineering SVP Steven Sinofsky, while predicting OS's final release date.
• Google's Chrome OS Has 'Fail' Written All Over It Analysis: Google's efforts to dislodge Microsoft Windows with Chrome OS don't stand a snowball's chance in hell.
• Why Chrome Won't Replace Windows Former Google employee says Google's OS could spawn a whole new class of faster, cheaper, diskless PCs.
• Analysts: Google Has Muscle for Long Battle With Microsoft Analysts say that Google is one of the few -- or only -- companies in a position to take on Microsoft in the operating system business.

Windows Playing in PCW Video

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  Microsoft to Charge Europeans Double for Windows 7 European customers will pay nearly twice as much for Windows 7 as U.S. consumers.
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  Microsoft Suggests Corporate Vista Testers Should Switch to Windows 7 At Microsoft’s recent Tech Ed Conference, the company suggested users testing Vista should abandon that effort for the Windows 7 release candidate.
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  How to Tame Vista's User Account Control In this screencast, senior editor Robert Strohmeyer walks through the steps you'll need to take to tame one of Vista's most annoying features: user account control.

Windows Slideshows

• Windows 7 Illustrated: 10 Cool Desktop Features In anticipation of Windows 7 being released into the wild on Oct. 22, here is an up-to-date pictorial guide to the most compelling navigation and networking features of the OS.
• The 10 Dumbest Tech Products So Far Awful wearable PCs, gaming systems that made you sick, free handhelds no one would take, and more. What'll they think of next?
• Best and Worst of Windows 7 and Windows Server The new release candidates of Microsoft's desktop and server operating systems work well together, but along with our favorite features we still have a wish list. Let's compare notes.
• Bing: A Visual Tour of What's New Microsoft has rebooted its Live Search and rechristened it Bing. Here is a tour of Bing and point-by-point look at what it has to offer.
• Arrested Developers: 8 Tech Celebs Who've Been in Trouble with the Law It's easy to forget that the people responsible for creating the technologies we use everyday are, well… people too. And some of them do bad things.

Windows Reviews

• Cancel Your Cable, Watch TV on an Xbox Can a program installed on your PC beat cable providers at their own game? Read about one man's quest to avoid a crummy digital-upgrade box.