Several of you have asked me to add data for Windows XP to my Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista benchmark post. Well, you asked for it! by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

A series of Apple patent filings published this week reveal Apple's new possible multi-dimensional interface for Mac OS X that could make "better use of screen real estate by increasing the number of virtual surfaces capable of housing application and

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: RIM announces all-cash acquisition, takeover bid Andrew Nusca: Need $100K? Make videos for YouTube Richard Koman: White House hates Martin's free

If it seems very basic, that's because it is. Yet, iPhone users are so eager to have a cut/copy-and-paste tool that they're willing to pin their hopes on a YouTube video and Twitter feed. Techmeme At this point, that's all

Is Microsoft poised to join other tech vendors in announcing dismal second quarter earnings or is the company going to yet again manage to meet or beat its traditionally conservative guidance this time against seemingly impossible odds? by Mary Jo

The second Mobius event of 2008 was held this week in Seattle and I was invited to participate with some of the greatest minds in the mobile space. We saw the beta of Windows 7, future of Windows Mobile and

I consider why students should change from an ordinary, boring Vista computer, to a server operating system instead. by Zack Whittaker

Come join fellow ZDNet blogger and world-famous CRM analyst and guru, Paul Greenberg, and me for an informal IT failures chat in Boston. Paul and I are taking the IT failures discussion into the real world for an old-fashioned town

A petition, right from the heart of the University of Kent where I currently study, is attempting to persuade the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, away from new immigration laws targeting international students entering UK universities. Whilst the topic itself

If you're buying someone on your holiday gift list some sort of electronic gadget, I'm giving you the greenlight to be a pain with your retailer or the product manufacturer about doublechecking the green credentials. I'm usually pretty undemanding when

David Linthicum counterbalanced last week's downbeat assessment on the things killing SOA with five reasons to be optimistic about service orienting (that's the spirit). Very notably, Dave credits enlightened CTOs/CIOs and CEOs with seeing SOA through the swamps of skepticism.

Intuit has removed fees for preparing and printing additional returns in TurboTax following a groundswell of complaints. On Wednesday I detailed how user complaints were surfacing over Intuit's new fees. Intuit had planned to charge a fee of $9.95 per

It's always the short questions that make my job interesting. Like this one. Gil, do you think companies will cut back on Enterprise Web 2.0 in light of the economy? First reaction--it depends. I'm an analyst, that's always our first

James Hamilton, an architect on Microsoft's Data Center Futures team, has decided to leave Microsoft for Amazon.com, as TechFlash first reported. Hamilton will be a Vice President on the Amazon Web Services team. by Mary Jo Foley

Watching an operating system evolve from a small, worthless lump of Vista, to becoming a unique, beautiful chrysalis of Sevenness, will probably be nothing like watching my godchildren grow up to be young adults, but probably a lot more fun.

I met Clinton Fitch a few years ago at a Mobius event and just had the pleasure of hanging out with him this last week in Seattle. Clinton puts together some of the most comprehensive reviews you can find online

We really are only beginning to understand how the IT services delivery, data management, and economic models of cloud computing will impact the market. If this shift is as large and inevitable as many of us think, the impact on

Tokyo is currently the largest city of origin of Twitter messages in the world, more than twice that of second placed San Francisco and New York in the USA as of this summer. (Incidentally, while the Japanese Kanji language Twitter

Even if we solved all the problems of health care, even if everyone had insurance and regular check-ups and no fear of costs, millions of Americans would still seek alternative therapies, for wellness and piece of mind. by Dana Blankenhorn

A little forgiveness would go a long way. As would linking the costs of documentation to the benefits. by Dana Blankenhorn