Divcom Software announced the release of HelpSmith 3.4 for Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, and Win7. The new versions lets users integrate their help systems with Internet services such as YouTube, Google Analytics, and JavaScript.

If the information being leaked out of Redmond is correct, a beta version of Windows 8 may be available the middle of this year.

The Stylistic Q55 will run Win7 Professional on an Intel Atom processor with a 10-inch LED touchscreen. Battery life is expected to be about eight hours. The devices will be available in Europe sometime in April.

Reader Joseph McAllister has been trying to import his contact list from Excel into Outlook.

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The Bing Bar from Microsoft is designed to make the Bing search tool easier to use. The toolbar is available to work on Internet Explorer 7 and higher.

Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Eric Schmidt were there. But Steve Ballmer wasn’t invited. One reason cited was the location of Microsoft’s headquarters. Very odd.

A Dell tablet, expected to ship in January 2012, will run Windows 8. Or will it? It all depends on whether you believe the slides supposedly leaked from Dell.

While many companies are looking to spend money on new hardware to host cloud-based systems, they haven’t yet started hiring the people to install the systems.

RegistryBooster 2011 has new features and improvements to help it clean and fix the Windows registry database. It includes support for 32-bit and 64-bit WinXP, Vista, Win7 in 19 languages.

While Microsoft says it supports Open Source software, they have decided not to allow developers to post any applications covered by an open license, unless it’s the "open source license" created by Microsoft.