Windows Vista Home Basic is essentially warmed-over Windows XP, Windows XP SP3. If you're currently happy with Windows XP SP2, we see no compelling reason to upgrade. On the other hand, if you need a new computer right now, Windows Vista is stable enough for everyday use.
It's as fast as we imagined, but we wish AMD's new dual-core chip played better with other computer parts out of the gate.
Get the affordable, sleek, and sexy 5G Apple iPod for its audio virtues. Although video looks great, poor video battery life and a relatively small screen hamper its appeal to video heads
To create cross-platform documents for the Web, Nitro PDF is a back-to-basics alternative to Adobe Acrobat.
What's happening to Microsoft? Business Week calls it a midlife crisis, but what if the world has simply moved on?
ARM is to integrate security into its popular processor cores for mobile devices, paving the way for Palladium-style secure systems.
Other firms may stake a claim on the connected home of the future based on bulging storehouses of movies and music, smart fridges or smart phones.
Rick Rashid envisions a future in which disk drive capacity of a terabyte is routine and user interfaces possess active intelligence.
For Yossi Vardi, the evolution of wireless technologies such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi points to a future where messaging programs are increasingly powerful and pervasive.
How long will it be before your computer is able to read your facial expressions? Will a rude gesture become the next Control-Alt-Delete? ZDNet Australia investigates computing interfaces.
We put the two biggest encyclopaedia brands on the market head to head. Which one has the bigger brain? Read our Australian review.
Microsoft has identified a handful of technology trends likely to reshape PCs and is working to define its new role. Plus, it's getting ready for the demise of the PC.
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Opening the floodgates on missing drives
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