After being accused of double-charging European customers for Windows 7, Microsoft defends its pricing while explaining the difference in the European version.

His old Dell desktop cost $1700 new so, Brian Nadel, of Computerworld, has challenged himself to refurbish the machine, for about $400, and increase performance by 30%.

Microsoft’s advertising tends towards the opaque and heavy-handed, so when an ad is actually humorous… This article includes links to four of these IE8 ads.

Based on a Community Technology Preview (CTP) copy of Microsoft Office 2010 this article discusses some of the changes made to improve Office. A link to a slide-show of the new features is included.

While there might be better applications available, most companies refuse to consider moving away from MS Office.

Shinto priests in Tokyo began offering blessings to electronics when WinXP, and a multitude of system crashes, hit Japan. Now they’ve branched out and bless laptops, cell phones, and web portals as well.

In their continuing efforts to endear themselves to the world, Microsoft is taking advantage of the weak dollar to charge more for Windows 7 in Europe.

Microsoft "lowered" the price of Windows 7 in an attempt to undercut Apple’s OS X. But Snow Leopard is expected to be available in September, will run on a PC, and is less expensive.

Fresh out of the box your new PC may not have any malware on it, but it’s hardly ready to protect itself from the internet.

A reader asks about getting Outlook to display alerts when Outlook itself is closed.

Read this OutlookPower article.