http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/34/all xx http://www.itworld.com/windows/79852/stop-windows-media-center-hogging-hard-drive As I've mentioned in the past, I'm a big fan of the Windows Media Center software that comes baked into most versions of Vista and Windows 7. http://www.itworld.com/windows/79852/stop-windows-media-center-hogging-hard-drive#comments Operating systems Software Storage Windows How-to Windows Media Center Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:33:42 -0500 ITworld staff 79852 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/security/85785/microsoft-confirms-ie6-ie7-zero-day-bug Microsoft today confirmed that exploit code published last week can compromise PCs running older versions of Internet Explorer, but said its security team has not yet seen any in-the-wild attacks. http://www.itworld.com/security/85785/microsoft-confirms-ie6-ie7-zero-day-bug#comments Operating systems Security Software Windows News Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:40:06 -0500 ITworld staff 85785 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/windows/85766/windows-7-5-things-cios-consider-before-deployment Start now. Particularly if you skipped Vista, you need to start testing applications for compatibility with Windows 7. Microsoft says it will discontinue support for Windows XP in April 2014. Gartner predicts that many application vendors will drop support for XP versions by 2012. "Application support is the biggest problem to be concerned with," says Gartner analyst Michael Silver, even with some browser applications: Windows 7 forces an upgrade to Internet Explorer 8. http://www.itworld.com/windows/85766/windows-7-5-things-cios-consider-before-deployment#comments Operating systems Software Windows News Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:40:07 -0500 ITworld staff 85766 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/windows/85758/windows-8-2012 Microsoft Windows 8 may be coming as early as 2012, based on a recent rash of comments and hints dropped by Microsoft personnel in official capacity and informal context. http://www.itworld.com/windows/85758/windows-8-2012#comments Operating systems Software Windows News Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:10:05 -0500 ITworld staff 85758 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/hardware/85701/speed-up-everything Has your PC lost its pep? How about your network connection, your printer, or even your phone? Here's our guide to giving your gear new life. Follow our tips, and you can fire up your system and your other tech essentials. http://www.itworld.com/hardware/85701/speed-up-everything#comments Hardware Operating systems Software Windows News Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:39:54 -0500 ITworld staff 85701 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/windows/85689/will-chrome-os-lead-more-powerful-win7-netbooks Chrome OS may lead to higher-performance netbooks, but many of them will not be running Google's next-generation operating system. http://www.itworld.com/windows/85689/will-chrome-os-lead-more-powerful-win7-netbooks#comments Operating systems Software Windows News Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:10:07 -0500 ITworld staff 85689 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/windows/85577/make-most-windows-7s-high-powered-taskbar Microsoft pulled off a rare feat with Windows 7's taskbar, making it far more elegantly useful and customizable, without turning its back on everyone's well-honed sense of what it does. Dig around, though, and you'll find a few features that make the taskbar even more functional. http://www.itworld.com/windows/85577/make-most-windows-7s-high-powered-taskbar#comments Operating systems Software Windows Tip The Daily Tip Windows 7 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:54:44 -0500 ITworld tips 85577 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/internet/85643/microsofts-ie9-tap-hardware-speed-boost Microsoft's next browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), will offload image and text rendering chores to the PC's graphic processor, one way the company plans to increase the browser's overall performance, according to the firm's top IE manager. http://www.itworld.com/internet/85643/microsofts-ie9-tap-hardware-speed-boost#comments Development Hardware Internet Operating systems Software Windows News Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:10:03 -0500 ITworld staff 85643 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/windows/85611/control-itunes-windows-7-taskbar One of my favorite Windows 7 amenities is thumbnail previews, which appear when you mouse over any running program in the taskbar. http://www.itworld.com/windows/85611/control-itunes-windows-7-taskbar#comments Operating systems Software Windows News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:10:52 -0500 ITworld staff 85611 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/85605/chrome-shines-gore-opines-staffs-decline Google's Chrome OS captured a lot of headlines and hype this week after the company invited the media in to have a look-see, setting off a whole lot of opinions about whether it will be any good. Microsoft, predictably, doesn't think so. Otherwise, Al Gore offered his opinion on the role supercomputers can play to quell climate change, and for the first time we can recollect there were not one, but two, cat-related IT stories that caught our attention. http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/85605/chrome-shines-gore-opines-staffs-decline#comments Business Government Green IT Legal Mobile & wireless Operating systems Personal tech Security Software Windows Opinion Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:40:14 -0500 ITworld staff 85605 at http://www.itworld.com