The U.S. price for upgrading, from Vista, to Windows 7 is running about $120. The full version, needed to "upgrade" from WinXP, costs about $200. But. If you buy it in Britain you can get the full version for only $106.

Microsoft lost the copyright case and was fined $200 million. But, because Microsoft’s lawyers repeatedly misrepresented the law to jurors, the judge added another $40 million to their costs.

The author of this article is excited about the Windows 7 interface options. Included are screen shots of some very interesting wallpapers that come with the OS.

A study by NSS Labs, paid for by Microsoft, pitted several current browsers against some standardized tests. Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3 performed the most consistently.

If you’re looking for another job, should you brush up your .NET skills or something else? Job listings are down sharply from last year but some specialties are better than others.

We answer a reader question about using SCANPST, and along the way dive, once again, into an unfortunate use of puns.

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DataNumen Inc. has released Advanced Outlook Express Data Recovery (Version 1.0) to help you recover mail even if the .DBX file has been lost. AOEDR works with all versions of Outlook Express.

Windows Server 2008 and Vista have a new security log format, including over 50 categories, many with individual audit policies. The new ELM Management Pack for Windows Server 2008 Security Events provides updated Event Filters, Event Views and Reports designed to address these changes.

The author of this article installed Windows 7 RTM on his Dell Inspiron E1505 notebook with 1GB of RAM and a 1.83GHz Core Duo processor to see what it would do. While the RTM is a little better than RC1, there seem to be a few issues yet to work out.

Internet Explorer 6 is already eight years old. Now, despite a campaign by developers to get rid of it, Microsoft is saying it will continue to support IE6 until 2014.