Add a TV tuner and you can make the most of Media Center, which is bundled with Vista Home Premium and Ultimate.

We provide the commentary on a bruising eight-round battle between Vista and Tiger.

MSI's MegaBook L61OI lives up to its 'mega' moniker with a large 15.4-inch widescreen TFT, desktop CPU, excellent graphics and pumping audio. The model we looked at was a pre-production prototype notebook and as such was a little shaky and did not come with all the inclusions a final model will have. As a proof of concept, however, the notebook is quite good.

Microsoft has started from scratch with Vista’s networking features — but are they any better than those found in XP? We log-in and find out.

We help you determine whether your current PC can run Vista and which version of the operating system best suits your needs.

Vista’s Network and Sharing Center brings networking, file sharing and discovery options together, making it far easier to diagnose problems.

Native playback of DivX and XviD files is one of the most potentially useful additions to Windows 7. Here's what you need to know.

Will a beefed-up firewall, User Account Control and disk encryption make Vista a safer choice than XP?

It turns out that Microsoft [I]is[/I] bringing out Windows XP Media Center Edition in Australia, but until such time as it materialises -- and Microsoft Australia is being very sketchy on the dates -- those of us looking to integrate our PC media files with our televisions and hi-fi systems have to turn to bridging solutions.

McAfee puts out its VirusScan 2004 in two versions - boxed or downloaded and managed from the internet. Whatever way you do it, the installation is simplicity itself with no difficult questions to answer or confusing choices to make.

See Modern Warfare 2 gameplay footage. Also: Windows 7 Media Center, why Lewis Hamilton's McLaren is so good off the starting grid.

A million music downloads, movies on demand and copies signed by Bill Gates.

Windows 7 may be the perfect compliment to bring out better than average Blu-Ray viewing results from your computer.

The unusually named NOD32 is finding favour with a growing number of users despite its Spartan interface, which concentrates more on the nuts and bolts of the job at hand than trying to look good.

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

Your wireless network is more powerful than you imagine. Use this guide to fully understand and utilise it.

Everything you've ever needed in a downloads center.

Microsoft owns up about what it really does with those bug reports. Also: a universal robot operating system, see the stunning 1960s McLaren that CAD revived.

NASA has released digitally restored broadcast footage of the Apollo 11 moonwalk but the one-inch telemetry tapes recorded at tracking stations in Australia and the U.S. remain lost

After a few months of BETA testing, Microsoft has finally released the next official first aid kit for Windows Vista - Service Pack 2.