If your favorite Windows apps run on Intel’s x86 chips, it appears there is a good chance you won’t be able to use them on Win8. This may mean you have to change out all your apps to transfer the data to the new ARM platform.

The wait for Windows to boot up is sometimes cited as a reason to leave your PC running. Bringing it out of hibernate hasn’t been any quicker. So when Microsoft says Win8 will have boot-ups almost 70 percent faster… this page includes a short video showing how the new OS will boot.

After digital certificates were stolen from a Dutch firm, Microsoft said they could not be used to pass malware through the Windows Update service. Now a hacker is claiming he can push malware to machines through the service.

The Courier, the Win7 tablet, went nowhere. But. Rumor has Microsoft trying again with Win8.

September 13 is Patch Tuesday. But someone accidentally pushed out the patch bulletins early. So you can read all about the patches before they’re released.

Hewlett-Packard isn’t getting any takers for their PC business so they may just spin it off as a separate company. In the meantime, they are still making, and selling, computers.

While it is still unconfirmed, the release date is looking more and more like fall-winter 2012 for the release of Microsoft’s next desktop OS.

A free, hour-long webinar will be held on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 to introduce this set of marketing tools for SharePoint portals and Internet sites. Registration is required.

Mariner Software has now released Paperless 2.0 for Windows. Paperless provides a digital document management product for both households and businesses.

On October 27, 2011, Greg Shields will host a webinar on how to use IT Job Scheduling to automate jobs that spread across Windows and Linux, SQL and Oracle, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft.