A crash detector, a multi-monitor taskbar, and a 3G/WiFi/WWAN Cost Limiter are among the less obvious features expected in Win8.

If you can’t boot your system, or you’ve got corrupted files, what do you do? One answer is to restore from backup, if you have one. This article looks at some alternatives.

On Tuesday, June 14, Microsoft will release an update to fix 34 flaws in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Office, SQL Server, and other products.

You’re planning to add some RAM to your PC, or a new graphics card and you aren’t sure how? This article looks at some of the common mistakes and how to avoid them.

Microsoft is offering some free add-ons for its Lync Server. This page mentions six new add-ons and includes links so you can download them.

Microsoft would like all those Android apps to be available on Windows Phones. To help out developers they’ve added Android to support to the API Mapping Tool and have written a white paper to explain the process.

It wasn’t that long ago that Microsoft was touting Silverlight as the replacement for Flash. Then, everything changed. Muglia quit. Guthrie was transferred. And a demo of Win8 used HTML5, not Silverlight. Silverlight developers are, understandably, upset.

The U.S. Supreme Court has let the $300 million patent infringement case stand. The court threw out Microsoft’s arguments that the patent was invalid.

Yet another nail in the WinXP coffin comes from Apple. If you use WinXP and want to take advantage of the iCloud for your music, you’re out of luck. You need to be running Vista or Win7 (or iOS 5) to access iCloud.

Microsoft has placed notifications in Russian newspapers as part of their suit against Rustock. The notices give unnamed operators, located in Russia, a chance to defend themselves.