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• The Bill and Jerry Show I wasn't anywhere near a TV Thursday night, so I missed the debut of Microsoft's much-ballyhooed ad campaign featuring Bill...
• Gain Keyboard, Mouse Control in 10.5 Screen Sharing One of the things I really like about OS X 10.5 is the built-in screen sharing tool. With multiple machines in our home...
• 12 Unnecessary Vista Features You Can Disable Right Now Tired of Vista's bloat? Reclaim your PC's performance by turning off a dozen wasteful features.
• Intel Buys British Linux Developer Opened Hand The acquisition adds to Intel's arsenal of Linux development projects for mobile internet devices.
• Can Seinfeld Really Sell Vista? Microsoft's new ad campaign launches next week with comedian Seinfeld hawking Windows.
• Microsoft Warns of IE8 Lock-in With XP SP3 Microsoft has warned users of Windows XP Service Pack 3 that they won't be able to uninstall either SP3 or IE8 in some cases.
• Linux End-User Summit Planned Event scheduled for October in New York City is intended to bring together users, senior Linux developers.
• Network-Attached Storage on the Cheap FreeNAS: Open-source OS turns an old PC into a great network-attached storage device.
• Vista May Still Have Its Day Think Windows Vista is a hopeless dog and XP was always the cat's meow among users? Think again.
• Bugs & Fixes: Fixing a Connect to Server Error What to do when you get an error message while trying to access a server via the Connect to Server command in the Finder's Go menu.
• Security Researcher Warns of Vista Vulnerabilities Dynamic memory management is a weakness, he says; Microsoft alerted but has not applied patches.
• One-Third of New PC Buyers Opt for XP New data finds 1 in 3 business PCs pass on Vista to get Windows XP under Microsoft's "downgrade" offer.
• Vista Users Rush for SP1; XP Owners Dawdle on SP3 Pent-up demand for Vista fixes drove users to install SP1, researcher says.
• Will Microsoft Continue to Activate New XP Installations? Gunther Steinberg of Portola Valley, California wants to know if he'll be able to install Windows XP on a new computer, and have Microsoft activate it, "in 2010 and later."
• Microsoft to Buy up to $100M in Support Vouchers It continues a cross-licensing deal between Novell and SUSE Linux.
• How to Clean Your Windows Registry and Speed Up Your PC A cluttered Registry can slow Windows to a crawl, but cleaning it up effectively isn't easy. Steve Bass reviews some of the leading Registry cleaners, and offers tips to help you get your Registry down to size and improve your PC's performance.
• Microsoft Sends Up Trial Balloons for Windows 7 While Vista takes a beating in the press, Microsoft seems increasingly willing to disclose details of its forthcoming OS.
• Microsoft May Use 2,000 Developers for Windows 7 25 'feature teams' to work on different facets of the replacement to Vista OS.
• Use an AppleScript to Force a Desktop Picture Change You may use the Mac OS X feature in the Desktop preferences to have your desktop images set to change every n minutes in...
• Bugs & Fixes: Fixing a Spotlight Search Failure You begin a Spotlight search via the Find window (accessed by the Command-F command). You select to limit your search to a...
• Launch System Preferences With a Keyboard Shortcut You may need to open System Preferences from time to time to adjust network settings, change user account options, or some...
• Microsoft Snuffs Out Third-Party ActiveX Controls Stomps buggy HP, Aurigma controls with 'kill bit' update.
• Redmond Releases Security Update for Windows, Office Microsoft's biggest security update in 18 months fixes 26 bugs.
• Five Steps to Safer Virtual Servers Virtualization security guru Chris Whitener of Hewlett-Packard shares his field-tested advice on how to secure virtual servers. Consider these five tips as you evaluate your enterprise's virtualization security.
• Expect 12 Microsoft Patches Next Week Microsoft plans 12 updates, including 7 "critical" patches for Windows, Office, and IE.