If you’re running Windows XP or Office 2003, starting next week you will have to pay for any service calls to Microsoft.

Conficker didn’t do much damage, to computers, on April 1. However. The computer security experts who tracked it, forecasting doom and gloom, are looking less impressive.

While they may not be in quite the same category as cleaning out pig pens or shearing alpaca, some IT tech jobs are far from glamorous. This article lists seven dirty IT jobs.

Windows XP is still popular. So popular that Microsoft is having trouble killing it off. The news is that Microsoft will continue to sell news licenses for XP after May 30, 2009.

Researchers at Microsoft are looking at the gestures people use to communicate in an effort to improve those used for touch-screen interfaces.

Conficker’s legacy may not be the non-event of April 1, instead it may be the number of people scammed into buying fake antivirus software.

While you might want to consider upgrading, Internet Explorer 8 doesn’t offer a compelling reason why you want to go to the effort.

Beware: those PowerPoint slides may be loaded with malware. There is currently no patch for the flaw which affects Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3, and Office 2004 for Mac.

Demand for high-tech jobs remains positive. GigFish offers their new, low-cost online job site for the high-tech sector.

Now that April 1 has come and gone with little activity from Conficker, was it all a joke or was the date misinterpreted?