David Moss tackles misbehaving com ports and resolves a windows share issue.

David Moss resolves an iTunes problem, looks into secret folders and Windows file sharing without a central server.

An often irreverent look at some of the past week's other news.

Microsoft’s radical redesign promises ‘better results, faster’. Be fully prepared for this world-leading productivity software.

Useful new features and a total interface overhaul make this the best Office ever.

We evaluate the various versions of Office 2007 and what they offer, and find a companion to help with search

Jon Honeyball rails against Vista and travels to learn about Microsoft SharePoint 2007.

04/04/2003 When Tezuka Osamu created the Astro Boy comic in 1951, the character's fictional birth date was set 'a long way into the future': 7 April 2003. It's time for another adventure...

Cutting edge technology is bringing powerful enterprise-grade solutions to the small and medium business sector. Read on for tips, analysis and tutorials about how you can take advantage.

In the early-to-mid 'nineties, the industry was buzzing with speculation about the 'new' 32-bit computing platform and, more importantly, how it would integrate into the 16-bit environment.

21/03/2003 Some people's points of view on the war hit home hard, because they're really personal. Now, that's one thing the Net is good at - making it personal.

21/03/2003 Some people's points of view on the war hit home hard, because they're really personal. Now, that's one thing the Net is good at - making it personal.

It's time to put your IT manager hat on and try to think about what all this Cloud computing, Azure and so forth is going to actually do for you.

Blu-ray and HD DVD players will come out fighting this year. We reveal which format is best placed to be DVD’s successor.

This feature is for anyone who's finished a working day with the horrible sense of dissatisfaction that things didn't go to plan, that you've been ineffective. That you just didn't do all the things you wanted to.

14/03/2003 . . .in which PCA readers express their opinions on Internet nasties and how parents can deal with them.

Toshiba is offering PC Authority readers a special 20% discount off the entry fee for MobileXchange 2003. MobileXchange is the largest mobile computing conference in the Southern Hemisphere, and this year you'll get the chance of experiencing the Tablet PC revolution first hand. This great deal is only available until the 14th of February so get in fast!

Assuming that all goes to plan, well see the first of the Mars Network communications satellites hitching a ride on the 2003 mission spacecraft. By 2005 the technologies should be mature enough to all

Find out how Microsoft’s impressive new OS will share and back up all the data on your home PCs, among other tricks.

Some intriguing new technology and genuinely useful features make Home Server one to watch.