Netbooks have rapidly gained in popularity over the past few years, finding their way into the hands of business professionals who want a small notebook for travel purposes, and budget consumers who only have a few hundred dollars to spend on a new computer. Now that we’ve all become accustomed to calling them netbooks, Microsoft has suggested that our tine new friends need a new name all together.

Windows XP may be dead to some, but Microsoft is quickly realizing it won’t soon be forgotten.

There’s a misconception with the crss.exe process as to whether it’s a virus or a necessary Windows process.  Let’s dig a little deeper to understand what it is and how it differs from other processes with similar names.

Windows XP is still the favorite operating system by far due to its relative stability and ease of use, but there’s always room for improvement.  Here’s a quick “Top Five” list of the easiest ways to speed up Windows XP to make it run more efficiently. 

Windows 7 is here, but with years of bad Vista memories, does it have what it takes?  Depending on how Windows 7 embraces new-age technologies such as cloud-computing and netbooks, it will determine whether Windows 7 is the future, or more of the same from an antiquated software giant.

At the Professional Developers Convention 2008 Microsoft, for the first time, gave the public a look at the much anticipated Windows 7. Microsoft has been extremely secretive about this new OS so it was nice to get a taste of what Windows users can expect to see in Windows 7.

You don’t have to search hard to find a copy of the Microsoft’s extremely popular Microsoft office. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by the computer giant and while some might think Microsoft was going to turn a blind eye to the pirated copies that have been hitting the streets.

A Wall Street analyst has said that Microsoft stands to lose around $395 million in revenues for 2009 because of the poor adoption of its Vista operating system by corporations.

Microsoft to offer Office SP1 through automatic update Microsoft has announced that it will be offering the Office Service Pack 1 through automatic update from June 16. The early announcement was made because Microsoft promised to give its users at least 30 days notice before releasing any software service pack automatically through the Microsoft Update (MU) channel.

After nearly a year of beta testing, Microsoft has finally made its Windows Live SkyDrive available to Australia. What is it? It is a free online storage option that is attached to your existing Windows Live Hotmail email account.

Internet Explorer has never complied with W3C web standards, making it the least liked browser of web designers (and often of internet users as well). Internet Explorer 8 will be released soon, and although it claims to be fully W3C compatible, internet pundits fear it will fail the Acid test.

In a speech given by Bill Gates at the World Economic Conference in Davos, Switzerland, he bites the hand that fed him: capitalism. In an ironic twist, one of the richest men in the world calls for a “kinder, gentler” version of capitalism, the very form of free enterprise that allows him the luxury of both charitable giving and a ultra comfortable lifestyle.

In the news is a story on the large number of older PCs “in the wild” that could be recycled. It seems of the 7 million out there in a recyclable condition, only 500,000 will be recycled. Apparently the rest go to landfills or rust away in storage.

In the news this week, British schools have taken a clear stand against Microsoft’s new invasive software models, advising educators not to upgrade to Microsoft Vista or the newest Microsoft Office, Office 2007. The announcement came down this week from the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency.

In recent world news, a MySpace profile has been determined to be a security risk. How is this possible? It pretends to be a Microsoft software update, trying to get unsuspecting users to click the activation button.