This new Office plug-in from Google lets you collaborate on Microsoft Office files using Google’s infrastructure. This page includes a 2-minute video showing how it works.

As people move their computing tasks to cell phones, there will be fewer desktop and laptop machines running Windows making it a less tempting target for malware. Which doesn’t mean there won’t be new malware for Windows.

After Microsoft confirmed the WinPhone 7 update turned some Samsung phones into useless bricks, the company has pulled the update for those phones. The update will be re-released when the problem is fixed.

Officially, Microsoft is not planning to speed up the release of Internet Explorer 9. Meanwhile, the release date for Firefox 4.0 has slipped again, and Google Chrome shipped six updates last year.

Windows comes with a number of tools and features but, sometimes, these don’t do what you want. This article lists several options for such things as image viewers, anti-virus, and media players.

Microsoft is making a limited-time offer to developers; a free trial of the Windows Azure platform. The offer is available from February 22 through June 30, 2011 and includes 750 hours of Windows Azure Extra Small Compute instance use.

Service Pack 1 for both Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 is due to appear on your Update list today. The service packs are designed to fix a number of bugs and offer some new features.

The marketing folks who thought holding employees hostage, resulting in an emergency call and SWAT team response, would be a neat way to advertise the Dell Streak aren’t the first to do something dumb. This article includes seven more marketing missteps.

Other World Computing announced the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 hardware RAID storage drive with massive 12TB of storage/backup in a desktop-sized brushed aluminum enclosure. The Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 12TB RAID storage drive offers a "Quad Interface" of FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0, and eSATA for Macs and PCs.

One of the differences between Windows machines and UNIX machines is the "need" for rebooting. This article covers some of the reasons why, and when, you should reboot UNIX boxes and why you should use it as a last resort.