Passwords may become a thing of the past as devices, including your PC and cellphone, become able to distinguish your face.

This slide show highlights 13 features, such as smartphone access, concurrent authoring, and calendaring that may make a difference for Office 365.

Microsoft is claiming 350 million licenses have been sold in 18 months, making Windows 7 far more popular than Vista though still far behind XP.

Most security experts advise encrypting data to keep it safe. Another method appears to be fragmenting the data and "hiding" the fragments by manipulating their locations.

Microsoft’s "Project Barcelona" is a metadata information server. The idea is to have a web-crawler work within an enterprise’s own data cloud to link information otherwise hidden in a variety of locations.

A new benchmark test, designed to get better estimates in "real world" situations, has been used against several of the major browsers. The winner? Internet Explorer 10.

SpyZooka antispyware software, for Windows PCs, is designed to detect the problems causing pop-ups and unexpected toolbars to suddenly appear on your machine. Cyberlab also offers a free PC scan to check for problems.

Microsoft would love to have you abandon XP and upgrade to Win7. They’ve ceven reated a desktop gadget, that will only run on Vista or Win7, to count down the days until XP is no longer supported.

Microsoft’s Project Tuva is celebrating the 50th anniversary of a series of lectures by physicist Richard Feynman at Caltech. The videos have been updated to include commentary by MIT physics professor Robert Jaffe.

Logicalis is now offering IT pros the chance to voice their views on its newly launched "Hype or Ripe" blog site. No registration is required for you to select a story as "hype" or "ripe".