In the end, Windows XP became the most effective Microsoft Bob deployment tool ever developed.

Windows 3.x has come to the closing moments of its long life. On 1 November Microsoft stopped issuing licences for the software that made its debut in May 1990 in the US.

Windows installed another round of updates and now it's asking you to restart. Again. One simple command line entry can disable this obnoxious reminder.

Good Lord. This is some poor design right here.

Looks like Microsoft's attempt to make an easy silverlight creator. Now with a game creator (in alpha).

I swear I linked to these once before but it's vanished. I'm linking to it again, dammit.

The Game Programming Wiki's entry on XNA.

In what could be the most embarrassing exploit to impact Windows Vista since its commercial launch in January, security engineers at McAfee's Avert Labs confirmed today that the operating system can be caused to enter an interminable crash-restart-crash l

Vista still sucks: "All of which sounds like good news for you and the IT industry in general. Except that I’m left with the uneasy feeling that I’ve been ever-so-elegantly mugged."

'A couple of years back, an X-Box with some variant of Linux installed had been put in the server room to support a subject designed to teach computer-illiterate Philosophy students how to build their own web pages.'

How to get the free VMWare Player (Windows and Linux) to run Windows XP Pro.

Utilize a hole in Windows' setup/repair utility that will allow you to reset your user password(s).

23 eerie parallels between Xbox 360 and the Sega Dreamcast.

The contest rules themselves. No ActiveX allowed. Note: must use IE to launch the sample applications, because the launcher is ActiveX.

Documentation on the Activity API

The race is on to make an HTML/DHTML-based app based on MSN's Messenger Activity API.