When Senior Editor Robert Strohmeyer held his Windows 7 launch party, his guests got tips on how to set up a Windows 7 network, how to share files–and cake! Robert was inspired by Microsoft’s campaign ...

Microsoft is known for listening to feedback from its users. However, the requirement for a native Windows network speed monitor was neglected for a while and was even missing from the tech giant’s ...

This is a follow up to my previous post about living in a dorm, and having a wireless router assigning invalid IP addresses to people. Short story, sometimes everyone on one of our 4 switches looses ...

If you have a business reason to keep a Windows 7 system active past its 2020 end-of-life date, here's how to keep it from being a security liability on your network.

Windows 7 officially ships on Thursday, which means end users and administrators running Windows XP (and to a lesser extent, Windows Vista) have some interesting decisions to make. To help you make ...

My post “Why Windows 7 will crush Linux” has created quite a stir, particularly in the Linux community, it seems. So far I have received over 100 comments (mostly from those who favor Linux over ...

“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” is a line from Rudyard Kipling’s The Ballad of East and West. It could also apply to Windows and Linux. If you don’t know what you’re ...

Windows 7 has reached end of life and now isn't supported by Microsoft. It means businesses and consumers with PCs running on Windows 7 – which was introduced in 2009 – will no longer receive ...