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In a special Inside Podcast, I join Dan Kregor to chat about some of the new features announced by Microsoft for Windows Server 8....More

Microsoft today announced that its Lync 2011 corporate communications client for the Mac was complete. (A version previously shipped for Windows.) The product will be generally available to volume license customers on October 1....More

I'm happy to report now that Windows Home Server 2011, while not without some minor issues, is rock solid, and just as viable a solution for home users as was its predecessor. I use and rely on Windows Home Server 2011, and recommend it highly....More

30 years ago today, IBM launched its IBM Personal Computer, or PC, the result of a year-long skunk works project to get the slow-moving behemoth into the then-nascent personal computing market. On that note, the IBM PC was more successful than its designers could have reasonably dreamed of: It pushed personal computers into the lucrative business market and by using off-the-shelf parts, inadvertently created a market for PC-compatible clones that endures to this day....More

Microsoft this week announced its first major free update for Windows MultiPoint Server 2011, called Update Rollup 1. This release includes new language (Arabic and Hebrew) support, better support for touch screens, improved USB storage drive letter management, improved mouse handling, remote device automatic detection, and better support for PS/2 audio....More

Microsoft Press makes various titles available for free in PDF format, but this week it revealed that it is now making some of these titles available for free via the Amazon Kindle and other eBook platforms as well, thanks to their release in DRM-free EPUB and MOBI formats....More

While Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser is generally on a slow incline (though its latest version, IE 9 is on the way up), and Firefox seems to have flatlined, Google’s Chrome has eaten up the largest portion of web browser usage share over the past year or so. This past month, however, both Chrome and Safari showed strong gains. And since these browsers are both based on the same rendering engine, WebKit, they may be worth considering as a single entity....More

Microprocessor giant Intel announced another blockbuster financial quarter on Wednesday with net income of $3.2 billion on a record $13.1 billion in revenues. It was the fifth straight quarter in which the firm posted record revenues, and it's a reminder that the traditional market for PCs and servers is still firing on all cylinders despite consistent, ill-informed reports to the contrary....More

Microsoft announced today that its upcoming Explorer Touch Mouse will arrive in September and will cost $50 in the US. This new mouse joins the Touch Mouse ($80, coming this fall) and the Arc Touch Mouse ($60, available now) in the company's stable of touch-based pointing devices....More

Microsoft today announced that it is offering up to a quarter million dollars for new information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the Rustock botnet's operators. This is the first time the software giant has offered a reward like this since 2009, with Conficker....More