Engadget noted that the new class of Eee PC-like ultraportables was in need of a new product category ... "... as we were going over some back posts that since the launch of the ASUS Eee PC (and the numerous products that have followed, from the MSI Wind...

Will Red be the colour for back to school for the 2009 school year? If my kids see this new PC, I expect we will be pressed to contribute towards the country's economic recovery. This from the Dell blog: a new, tiny (and I'll assume a low cost) mobile...

Fresh from the net, here's a highlight from D6 down in Carlsbad and number one on the All Things D Top Ten list (as at right)... "With Microsoft (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates soon relinquishing his daily role at the software company he co-founded as it grapples...

More on CNET's Ina Fried's interview with Steven Sinofsky discussing Windows 7 ... A quick post as I have a few minutes during a quick lunch break before my noon teleconference. Earlier today, Ina Fried posted her Q&A with Steven Sinofsky in Windows...

A quick note to let you know that Knowledge Base article 914387 "How to configure daylight saving time for Microsoft Windows operating systems" has been updated to reflect the manual changes for Morocco and Pakistan. We've also updated the information...

LNB asks... "My lap top speakers are not working. No sound comes out of them but when I plug in headphones, the sound works just fine. I haven't dropped or spilled anything on my computer. I can't remember when the last time I heard sound out of the speakers...

I admit it... for a while after dogfooding the system in an old, spare PC, I thought for a while that I would build a custom, low-power Windows Home Server . But, as I looked at the time involved, the appeal of the HP MediaSmart Home Server was too great...

Mike Tholfsen is an energetic and dedicated senior test manager at Microsoft, and I've had the pleasure of working with him in his effort to bring the message of Test Customer Champions to other engineering groups around the company. Product groups who...

Satya Nadella announced today that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects -- together accounting for 750,000 digitized books and 80 million indexed journal articles -- and the sites will be taken down next week. "This also...

In this morning's news, Microsoft Expands List of Formats Supported in Microsoft Office ... " The 2007 Microsoft Office system will support XML Paper Specification (XPS), Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.5, PDF/A and Open Document Format (ODF) v1.1 with...

This from the morning news... first there was the Princess Leia hologram , now Bill Gates is getting virtually projected around the world... Bill Gates, chairman of software powerhouse Microsoft Corp, made a five-minute virtual appearance at the World...

Gizmodo this past week said of Microsoft's Mediaroom (our TV over IPTV solution) service via AT&T U-Verse and BT Vision in the UK... "... features... quick channel changing, multiple channel records simultaneously without a hardware tuner limit, multi...

In the morning news... Microsoft and Yahoo! are again in the spotlight, this time with a move that "Microsoft announced that it is continuing to explore and pursue its alternatives to improve and expand its online services and advertising business." ...

Sunshine... 80 degrees... must leave the office.... Here's the reading list... Have a good weekend. ITP Spring Show 2008 » BrushBots - Brush Bots are tiny machines that work in tandem with the user in creating generative art. Released on top of a piece...

CNET News reports that Conde Nast purchased the popular tech blog Ars Technica... according to techcrunch... Ars Technica, a decade-old independent tech news and analysis site, is becoming a part of Conde Nast's Wired Digital group. The acquisition will...

Computerworld reported yesterday in their story " HP confirms XP SP3 endless reboot snafu, promises patch " that... "... some users of its AMD-based desktops have had problems after installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), and said it would issue a...

While waiting for a conference call to begin, a quick post on Touch Wall demo'ed by Bill Gates at the CEO Summit this week in Redmond . Benjamin J. Romano of the Seattle Times covers today how Bill Gates demonstrated the Touch Wall at the CEO Summit in...

Not all bugs are in your code... they're all over (and around) your computer. Learn about some new debugging tools that will help keep you healthier... After typing on my keyboard all day in meeting after meeting, I noticed that the laptop needed a little...

As noted on TechNet today off the main Windows XP TechCenter , Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) is now available for download and install via Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center. Windows XP SP3 includes all previously released updates for...

Usually, I don't post during business hours (maybe, on occasion at lunch) but I'm working at home today, recovering from something likely to be a bad cold. As many companies are beginning to support as an employee best practice, staying at home when you...

OK, Microsoft withdrew the offer for Yahoo! yesterday. Perhaps we will move on and quickly drive to the next big thing... but first a couple of thoughts. Mary Jo Foley noted in her post Microsoft takes its ball and leaves Yahoo on the Web 2.0 playground...

In case you missed the news today, Steve Ballmer announced (MSN link below) that Microsoft withdrew its offer for Yahoo! today. Microsoft Corp withdrew its offer for Yahoo Inc on Saturday after negotiations fell through because Yahoo wanted more than...

Wonder what to do when you're waiting for Outlook on one computer to move several thousand messages, and another computer is busy copying video demos? Use the third to post your reading list. In the time that it took me to burn a DVD and delete the old...

As noted on LifeHacker... Featured Windows Download: TweakRAM Memory Optimizer Free Today Only "Instead of dropping cash on a new stick of RAM for that old computer, go grab a free license for the normally $20 memory manager TweakRAM—today only. TweakRAM...