consumer software

As Microsoft continues to innovate and redefine the user experience within Windows 11, a quietly radical shift is on the horizon: expanding Windows Update to act as the one-stop hub not just for operating system and driver updates, but for the multitude of third-party apps that populate every...

The end of an era for online communication has arrived, as Microsoft has officially announced the shutdown of Skype, its once-ubiquitous video calling and instant messaging service. After over two decades of cultural influence, technological innovation, and sometimes turbulent evolution, Skype...

Microsoft is at it again, flexing its AI muscle and inviting individual users to get cozy with Copilot in its Microsoft 365 suite. If you've been eyeing all the AI buzz from afar but didn’t think it would spill over into your Word documents or Excel spreadsheets, buckle up—things are about to...

Are you ready to discover our choices for this week’s five best apps for Windows Phone? Of course you are! Link Removed Grab your Lumia and prepare for download because we’ve rounded up the best new Windows Phone apps, updates and games of the week. We’ve been seeing many new apps rolling...

CyberLink PowerDirector has long been one of the most powerful consumer video editors around, packed with functionality, yet still remaining very usable for just about every level of user. PowerDirector 13 doesn’t bring any radical changes, and the core of the package remains much as before...

Years back, there was this great computer program called Music Match Juke Box. It could rip CDs, name the files according to a selected protocol, play your pmusic as aserial playlist or random assortment and it could burn Audio CDs and WMA or MP3 CDs with voulme leveling. I bought a copy with...

The Kaspersky Internet Security Technical Preview is designed specifically for early adopters of the upcoming Windows 8 operating system from Microsoft, currently also in the beta testing stage. The technical preview version is available for all users, for a three month period. Link Removed

Microsoft deciding to release early code to trusted partners is always going to be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it allows for valuable feedback and bug identification on software before it gets released to consumers and business users alike, on the other, it’s an opportunity for the...

Microsoft has today opened a European Cloud & Interoperability Center (CIC) in Brussels. Located within the Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, Microsoft has invested 5.3m Euroes into the CIC – designed to drive innovation and economic growth across Europe through business use of cloud...

It seems no matter what I do, Windows 7, obviously my superior, won't let me. I wrote an app in VB6 for a client. It writes data to text files and creates pdf files. If it runs on Windows 7 (and apparently Vista), it throws a 'file/path access error' and won't complete the job. This is a...

One of the most interesting changes just starting to happen in PC architecture is that software can now do some Link Removed due to 404 Error using the graphics processor, in addition to the using the traditional CPU. This offers the potential for certain applications to run noticeably faster...