It took less time to fight and win the second world war than to develop Windows Vista. Tim Dean looks at all Microsoft has achieved in that time.

Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been cropping up on numerous file sharing and developer sites over the weekend.

Kapersky Antivirus has been around for some time and often pops up on home computers as the uneducated user’s anti-virus software of choice. Unfortunately, it really isn’t as user friendly a program as it should be for novice users.

Encarta Premium Suite claims a base of 130,000+ articles, along with 25,300+ photos and illustrations and 1.8 million map locations. That's more than a bit of bedtime reading, although of course there are really only two reasons why people buy digital encyclopedias these days -- either they've got kids to educate, or they're after some verifiable and quotable facts for a research project. For almost anyone else, of course, there's Google.

In the mid-range backup market, no other tape format has proved to be as popular as LTO Ultrium. We bring you a first look at the fourth generation.

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

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Microsoft bought anti-spyware technology last week to protect its Internet Explorer browser from surging rivals like Mozilla's Firefox, Gartner analysts in the US have said.