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  Microsoft slashes Surface RT prices by 60% for schools

  Microsoft today confirmed that it has heavily discounted the Surface RT tablet to universities and K-12 schools, cutting the price of the entry-level model by 60%.

  By Gregg Keizer | 18 June, 2013 19:34

  Tags: Microsoft, Windows, hardware systems, tablets, software, operating systems

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  Best Buy gets the best of Microsoft in Windows Store deal

  While Microsoft gained space in 600 Best Buy stores yesterday, the electronics retailer got the better end of the deal, an analyst said.

  By Gregg Keizer | 14 June, 2013 17:27

  Tags: NPD Group, retail, Microsoft, Windows, software, operating systems, industry verticals, Best Buy

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  Windows 8 Update: Microsoft teams with Best Buy to boost Windows 8 sales

  Microsoft is placing Microsoft Stores within about half the U.S. Best Buy locations and creating a parallel online store on the Best Buy site in an effort to drum up more consumer business, it seems, for Windows 8.

  By Tim Greene | 13 June, 2013 21:59

  Tags: skype, Microsoft, Windows, software, operating systems, Best Buy

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  Microsoft seizes floor space in Best Buy for Windows mega mini-stores

  Microsoft has struck a deal with Best Buy to create 600 stores-within-stores in the U.S. and Canada to sell customers on Windows 8, the Surface tablet line, and new PCs and devices from other OEMs.

  By Gregg Keizer | 13 June, 2013 20:44

  Tags: Apple, retail, Microsoft, Windows, software, industry verticals, operating systems, Forrester Research, Best Buy

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  Nationwide makes SSDs standard on PCs, to employee applause

  Nationwide Insurance is moving off Windows XP and the misery of an eight-minute boot-up time for some 40,000 users.

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 13 June, 2013 13:24

  Tags: SSD, Drives, storage, Windows, hardware systems, desktop pcs, software, operating systems, Hewlett-Packard, PCs, Nationwide Insurance, HP

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  5 excellent uses of Windows 8 Hyper-V

  Windows 8's bare-metal virtualization layer is a great way to create an app sandbox, run a test machine, launch a VHD appliance, and more

  By Serdar Yegulalp | 05 December, 2012 11:16

  Tags: Microsoft Windows, Windows 8, Microsoft, Microsoft Hyper-V, Windows, virtual desktop, software, operating systems, VMware, virtualization

• Prepare your PC for future data disasters

  Reformatting and restoring a PC is not fun--in the way spending 2 hours in the dentist's chair is not fun. You have to back up all your data (and pray that you haven't forgotten anything), reformat the hard drive, install Windows, track down missing drivers, find and reload all your software, restore your data, and pull out clumps of hair over the things you inevitably neglected to save. (Firefox plug-ins, anyone?)

  By Rick Broida | 05 February, 2011 01:51

  Tags: Windows Vista, windows troubleshooting, Linux, Windows, Windows 7, software, non-Windows, operating systems, windows maintenance

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  Switching to desktop Linux? 6 ways to ease the migration

  With all the many compelling reasons for a company to switch to Linux on the desktop, it's no wonder that businesses large and small are increasingly relying on the free and open source operating system.

  By Katherine Noyes | 27 January, 2011 06:52

  Tags: unix, open source, Linux, Windows, software, Windows 7, non-Windows, operating systems

• Windows 7: 10 Cool Keyboard Shortcuts

  Keyboard shortcuts are wonderful time-savers but many of us are either too accustomed to the mouse or too lazy to get beyond Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.

  By Shane O'Neill | 21 September, 2010 05:27

  Tags: taskbar, applications, Microsoft, Windows, Word, keyboard shortcuts, Windows 7, software, operating systems

• How to keep Windows XP SP2 safer after Microsoft stops patching

  Maybe you didn't get the memo: Tomorrow marks the end of patches for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2).

  By Gregg Keizer | 12 July, 2010 20:09

  Tags: Microsoft, security, Windows, software, operating systems

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  The Microsoft break-up that never happened

  Thomas P. Jackson, the former federal judge who in 2000 ruled that Microsoft should be split into two companies, died Saturday. What if his ruling, overturned before it could be implemented, had gone into effect?

  By Gregg Keizer | 18 June, 2013 18:39

  Tags: IT industry, Microsoft, Windows, software, operating systems, Department of Justice

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  Launch of Outlook RT testifies to Microsoft's app troubles

  Microsoft's announcement Wednesday that it will add Outlook to Office on Windows RT says as much about the company's app problem as it does about customers clamoring for a business-grade email client.

  By Gregg Keizer | 06 June, 2013 18:27

  Tags: Microsoft, Windows, software, operating systems, mobile apps

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  How Windows Red can fix Windows 8: The right strategy for Microsoft

  When Microsoft first outlined its strategy 32 months ago to bridge the old style of PC computing with the new world of tablet computing, we were optimistic. Although Apple had revolutionized computing with the iPad, creating the fastest-adopted technology ever, its approach walled off the tablet from the PC, with two different operating systems, user interfaces, and applications. Instead, Microsoft promised a unified, adaptive approach that would satisfy everyone.

  By Galen Gruman | 04 June, 2013 13:57

  Tags: Windows 8, Microsoft, Windows, software, operating systems

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  How Windows Red can fix Windows 8: The right strategy for Microsoft

  When Microsoft first outlined its strategy 32 months ago to bridge the old style of PC computing with the new world of tablet computing, we were optimistic. Although Apple had revolutionized computing with the iPad, creating the fastest-adopted technology ever, its approach walled off the tablet from the PC, with two different operating systems, user interfaces, and applications. Instead, Microsoft promised a unified, adaptive approach that would satisfy everyone.

  By Galen Gruman | 03 June, 2013 16:12

  Tags: Microsoft, Windows, software, operating systems

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  Hey, Microsoft: It's the apps, stupid

  Microsoft has revealed some of the changes in Windows 8 due to reach customers in a month, but didn't address what analysts called the biggest barrier to the OS' success.

  By Gregg Keizer | 30 May, 2013 19:20

  Tags: App Development, Microsoft, Windows, software, operating systems

Whitepapers about Windows

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  Best Practices for Preparing for SharePoint Migrations

  This paper focuses on some of the most common platforms that content can be moved from: Windows Server file shares, Exchange public folders, and previous versions of SharePoint. However, the strategies discussed can also be applied to content from other sources, such as Documentum, Novell or UNIX file shares, Notes databases, and web sites.