While not entirely serious, this short article claims that Microsoft’s Bing is in favor of you buying a Mac.

To get some of the features of Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 you have to run them in the same network. This article discusses the combination of these products. Site requires free registration.

If you still run XP, Microsoft may have some rude, and costly, surprises for you. Machines purchased before April 23, 2010 can be downgraded to WinXP but after that date they can only be downgraded to Vista.

According to research and advisory firm IBRS when companies implement virtual desktops and thin clients they may run afoul of Microsoft’s licensing model. This could result in additional licensing fees in the tens of millions of dollars.

Okay, there were probably far more than fifteen design mistakes made over the years, but these are some classic "what were they thinking" blunders from the 1980s. And, yes, Mattel did make a computer.

Now that Opera and Firefox have gained a toehold in the browser market, is the European Commission out of touch in it’s continued pursuit of Microsoft?

Dell’s Download Store is now offering Microsoft Works and the Office suite to customers. If you buy the software through Dell, and you have a problem with your PC, Dell will allow you to download previously purchased software again.

Mistakes made while emailing could go from bad…to really bad. As it turns out, two of our favorite developers, Sanjay Singh of Standss and Mike Sperry of Software have developed a number of Outlook Add-ins that are designed to help out.

Read this OutlookPower article.

The Archos 9 touch-screen internet tablet is powered by a 1.2 GHz Intel Atom Z515 processor and 1GB of DDR2 RAM. Analysts had expected it to run Google’s Android OS, instead it’s running Windows 7.

Saying Microsoft’s decision to strip Internet Explorer from the European release of Windows 7 was insufficient, the European Commission will continue its anti-trust suit against the software company.