Western Digital has released the My Book Live Duo personal cloud storage system. Compatible with Windows and OS X devices, the system lets you back up your files and make them available remotely.

Tobii’s "Eye control device" lets you launch programs on your laptop by using a camera to track your eye movements. This page includes a short video showing how it works.

Comet is being sued by Microsoft for selling counterfeit copies of Windows Vista and XP. Comet allegedly sold more than 94,000 copies of the operating systems, pre-loaded onto systems.

Microsoft’s old Flight Simulator has been killed off to make way for a game called Flight. Flight will be offered as a free download for Windows PCs.

Win8 will have a number of new features. Among them will be processes for resetting and refreshing a device. The process is designed to make it easy to remove your personal files before you get rid of a PC.

IE6 is ten years old and Microsoft would like people to upgrade to something newer. The company celebrated recently as the US market share for IE6 dropped under one percent.

The Windows Azure and Office 365 cloud will be getting some updates this year. Among the changes will be the same availability for single and multiple instances, support for UDP, support for Linux, and the ability to create a VPN between Azure and other servers.

WinPhone7 has not seen widespread adoption. In November the OS held a mere 5.2 percent of the U.S. market and new activations during December were far less than those for Android and iOS.

Users are finally moving from WinXP to something newer after Microsoft refused to port Internet Explorer 9 to the old operating system. Most seem to be trading XP for Win7.

Both Internet Explorer and Firefox lost ground to Chrome during the last year. Now Microsoft is hoping for a boost from IE9 on Win7.