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Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

Jon Honeyball laments the features that got away in the final Vista build.

At Microsoft’s grand unveiling of Office Beta 2, Vista and Longhorn, we ask why it’s being so bullish about this release.

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A flaw has been discovered in Microsoft's flagship Windows Vista operating system.

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We take a look back at the tech products that were so overdone by marketing hype, that by the time they were released, most failed to meet expectations.

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Apple’s ads may be funny, but they’re woefully inaccurate. Here we reveal dozens of reasons why the PC outclasses the Mac.

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PC Authority takes a trip down computer memory lane and discovers just how PC technology has evolved... and how Microsoft and IBM nearly destroyed each other.

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