Don't be confused; this XP has little to do with Microsoft. It's what happened when software developers pushed the best practices of programming to the edge, to the extreme.

Dont be confused; this XP has little to do with Microsoft. It is what happened when software developers pushed the best practices of programming to the edge, to the extreme.

Where's the #@$%? Device Manager in Windows Vista? Steve Polak exlains how to find all the system settings you know from Windows XP, in the sometimes confusing Vista interface.

Windows XP users may find themselves lost when it comes to Vista. PC Authority looks at the most useful configuration settings between them.

Leigh Dyer arrives in OS heaven with a triple-booting Intel Mac.

Every expert has a toolkit. Tim Dean takes you through the 10 tools any Windows expert cannot live without. So, to give you a head start, here are PC Authority's top 10 tools for the ultimate Windows user.

Is Vista’s suave new interface and menu system window dressing or a radical improvement in usability?

Are your Windows 95 apps not running under XP? Tim Dean goes through a few tricks to help you get it running.

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.

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

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

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

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

With the free products on our new cover DVD, you need never buy software again. So why do we still keep paying?

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.

It was touted as the next big thing from Microsoft. But is Microsoft’s storage strategy in tatters?

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.

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.