Want to break free from a Microsoft world? Leigh Dyer looks at the alternatives.

Don't want to settle for rolling green hills on your desktop? PC Authority looks at the alternatives with our guide to the latest desktop enhancements.

Google Desktop may finally be on Linux, but how does it fare against the competition?

Why do GNOME and KDE compete for the Linux desktop?

Leigh Dyer looks at the range of Linux desktops beyond GNOME and KDE.

Recognising that the Linux desktop market is only going to grow, and that there's money to made in the corporate arena, Sun's Java Desktop 2003 is squarely aimed at companies looking for a cheap, easy, and compatible alternative to Microsoft's (often expensive) dominance.

This month the Labs team cast a critical eye over the latest Intel Pentium 4-based desktop replacement notebooks. Traditionally, desktop replacement means fully-featured, premium notebooks with

Is Ubuntu's latest release capable of meeting its lofty support goal?

What will you be buying, using and drooling over this year? Tim Dean looks at the astounding products and technologies due to hit in the next 12 months.

The Excel G736 notebook from Protac is a desktop replacement, and as well as better-than-normal notebook specifications it also comes with the other traditional trapping of a desktop replacement notebook: it's big, it's chunky, and it's heavy.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

We test the big three OSes on level ground - Boot Camp.

Prepare to say goodbye to the Pentium as we reveal the next generation

Quad core considered too much for the average user.

Red Hat's latest offering is a finely tuned offensive into the lucrative corporate desktop market. With the Linux steamroller on a collision course for Redmond the last year has seen a number of major wins for the open source upstart with corporations such as IBM and governments that include Germany, France, China, Japan, Russia and Britain either already making the switch or considering it. And not just for servers, but on workstations too.

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

The Centrino platform has just received a major revision. Tim Dean peers inside Sonoma and takes a look at what we can expect.

Desktop Linux version pushed backed to September.

Formerly called Redmond Linux, Lycoris is probably the most Windows-like Linux around.

Virtualisation will prove magic ingredient for Linux to conquer the corporatedesktop.