ASUS All-in-One PC ET2011AUTB The AMD Fusion E-350 1.6GHz dual-core CPU is at the core of this all-in-one system from ASUS, which features a multi-touch screen. Priced around $900, this unit comes with front and rear cameras, and both side and rear expansion options including 6 USB 2.0 ports and HDMI-In. Its hard drive is [...]

For those of you Windows 7 and Windows Vista users not running Internet Explorer (IE) 9 as your browser of choice, would free music and movies be enough to entice you to switch? Microsoft is looking to entice users who aren’t running IE 9 to give it a whirl, using a holiday promotion as an [...]

HP may not be making any more TouchPads with webOS for consumers, but it certainly isn’t willing to be left out of the tablet party. With a new Slate 2 Tablet PC running the full version Windows 7 due out later this month, HP believes it has the device that businesses and professionals will need [...]

StatCounter shows Windows 7 Beating XP It took Windows 7 a little more than two years, but according to StatCounter, the Website analytics company, Windows 7 is now being used by more people than its decade old brother XP. According to StatCounter’s research arm StatCounter Global Stats in October 2011 Windows 7 took 40.5% of [...]

Windows XP has finally been eroded to sub 50% levels by Windows 7 and Google Chrome is closing the gap on Mozilla’s Firefox browser, according to web metrics firm NetmarketShare. Windows XP has been pushed to the sub 50% mark by its younger brother, Windows 7. Extrapolating the data out, I’d say that Windows 7 [...]

Measuring the rate of adoption of various operating systems is always a tricky task, but some big trends are easy to spot no matter which metrics you use. For Microsoft Windows, the markers are unmistakable: Windows XP continues its steady decline. Windows 7 continues its steady advance. Windows Vista is fading rapidly into a historical [...]

Some people view Microsoft as The Evil Empire, while others give Apple that moniker. I’ve never thought either one was particularly evil but when I found iCloud installed on my PC after upgrading to iOS 5, I’m beginning to wonder. I discovered the iCloud icon in my Windows 7 system tray after a recent update/reboot [...]

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@Ed Bott I hate to tell you Ed – but we [expletive deleted] do use Linux! You can’t really blame him too much when you’ve changed the name of the blog! Now I don’t JUST use Linux, sure… I use Mac and Windows too. But I’m a reader too, and you’ll notice I don’t always [...]

The reason for Microsoft’s windows 8 lack luster reception has most beenbeen a giant user interface back peddle, early retro-ing of the user interfacetechnology.( raise your hand if you feel clicking a picture icon is /that/ innovative,I was doing that, and a whole lot more, with my mouse, before Windows 95 existed).‘reimaging’ windows, err does [...]