What we do and don't know about Microsoft's Morro

Ars does a little digging to find out more about Microsoft's new security-related product, codenamed Morro. We tell you what we found out and where we met roadblocks erected by Microsoft.

November 21, 2008 - 03:34PM CT - by Emil Protalinski

Microsoft hopes to make Windows 7 use less disk space

The latest post on the Engineering Windows 7 blog is about disk space and is written by Michael Beck, a program manager in the core OS deployment feature team. Ars dives in to see what Microsoft is aiming for.

November 21, 2008 - 10:13AM CT - by Emil Protalinski

An unofficial Tweak UI for Vista: Ultimate Windows Tweaker

Tweak UI for Windows XP is a great application, but Microsoft never created one for Windows Vista. However, an unofficial one has been available, currently at version 1.0.

November 19, 2008 - 08:57PM CT - by Emil Protalinski

Touch gestures meet the Windows 7 Media Center

The Windows 7 Media Center team has been hard at work bringing touch features to the application (video inside). Multitouch is on the way.

November 19, 2008 - 08:08PM CT - by Emil Protalinski

New Opera designer looking for desktop UI feedback

Opera's new lead designer, Jon Hicks, is looking for comments from Mac, Windows, and Linux users (and everyone in between) about how the browser feels as a native app on their operating systems. If you have feedback, now's the time to give it.

November 19, 2008 - 03:03PM CT - by Jacqui Cheng

Windows HPC Server 2008 makes top 10 in top 500 list

Running Windows HPC Server 2008, the Dawning 5000A ranked 10th on the the November 2008 Top500 list. Last year, the top Windows HPC Server computer ranked 116th.

November 18, 2008 - 06:13PM CT - by Emil Protalinski

Adobe's CS4 products now available as free trial

Adobe has made most of its upcoming CS4 software available for trial download for both Mac and Windows. The catch? Besides being gigantic, there really isn't one.

November 17, 2008 - 04:15PM CT - by Jeff Smykil

Belkin makes moving to a Mac easy for noobs

Belkin Move-to-Mac cable moves files from Windows PCs to Macs automatically.

November 13, 2008 - 04:15PM CT - by Shane McGlaun

Windows 7 to have just download links for Windows Live apps

For those wondering how Microsoft is planning to push Windows Live in Windows 7, Ars has the official low-down: no different than how the company pushed Windows Live Messenger in Vista.

November 12, 2008 - 11:17AM CT - by Emil Protalinski

Colombia tests OLPC laptops... running Windows XP

The government of Colombia has announced a deal with Microsoft to test thousands of One Laptop Per Child XO laptops running Windows XP. A prominent Red Hat developer who works full time on OLPC's Linux platform denies that OLPC is leaving Linux behind.

November 12, 2008 - 07:30AM CT - by Ryan Paul

AVG incorrectly flags user32.dll in Windows XP SP2/SP3

This weekend, AVG 7.5 and 8.0 users found that their antivirus software was incorrectly detecting a critical Windows file as a trojan. AVG has moved to fixe the problem and offer support to users who still need it.

November 11, 2008 - 07:37PM CT - by Emil Protalinski

Developer creates App Store game... on Windows

Think you can only develop for the iPhone on a Mac? Ars chats with an independent developer who has made public a free OS X/Windows hybrid framework that allows Windows developers to build iPhone applications in Visual Studio.

November 11, 2008 - 09:17AM CT - by Erica Sadun

Parallels Desktop 4.0 gets a 50 percent speed boost over 3.0

The newest version of Parallels Desktop, version 4.0, is blazingly fast compared to the previous version. The software is officially out now and also boasts experimental 8-way SMP, OpenGL 2.0, Coherence updates, and even an iPhone app. Yeah, you read that right.

November 11, 2008 - 02:01AM CT - by Jacqui Cheng

Windows 7 post-PDC roundup, links galore!

With PDC 2008 and WinHEC 2008 now finished, it's time to have a look at what the latest Windows 7 news looks like. Dive inside for our roundup and links to even more juicy goodies.

November 07, 2008 - 03:21PM CT - by Emil Protalinski

Safari, OS X October market shares drop, but not by much

The browser and operating system market share data for October was recently released by Net Applications. It shows small market share declines for Mac OS X and the Safari browser, but we don't think there's a reason to be alarmed.

November 04, 2008 - 11:33AM CT - by Justin Berka

Ars@PDC: The new "Device Stage" in Windows 7

Microsoft showed off a new device managing feature called "Device Stage" at PDC. This feature brings all functionality for a specific attached device into a single view.

October 31, 2008 - 12:08PM CT - by Kurt Mackey

First Vista SP2 and Server 2008 SP2 beta build sent out

Microsoft has sent out Service Pack 2 build v6002-16497 to testers. Details on the first beta of SP2 are inside. Microsoft currently expects the final version to be released sometime in the first half of 2009.

October 30, 2008 - 11:12AM CT - by Emil Protalinski

New "Get a Mac" ads doing well against "I'm a PC" series

Microsoft and Apple have been trading advertising blows for the past month or so. It turns out that Apple's latest ads received less viral views but more placements in their first week than their Microsoft counterparts did in the first week of that campaign.

October 30, 2008 - 08:46AM CT - by Justin Berka

A third dimension: Ars reviews Photoshop CS4 Extended

Adobe has released the CS4 suite of applications just 18 months after CS3 hit the market. Ars reviews Photoshop CS4 to see if a redesigned interface and 64-bit support for Windows makes this an upgrade worth having.

October 29, 2008 - 11:15PM CT - by Dave Girard

Ars@PDC: More on Windows Azure

Microsoft provided us with a few more Azure details, including SDK information, data center details, and some hints about the underlying technologies.

October 27, 2008 - 08:49PM CT - by Peter Bright