Online services are growing smarter by the day – but can they replace desktop applications? We spend a week working online to find out.

According to Software as a Service providers -- who want you to run your business online -- SAAS has come of age. We put it under the microscope.

Gartner predicts bitter battle as search giant launches hosted tools.

Microsoft’s radical redesign promises ‘better results, faster’. Be fully prepared for this world-leading productivity software.

Jon Honeyball looks at Silverlight, Microsoft's potential Flash killer, from a business perspective

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.

Sun UltraSPARC In 1995, eight years after the first SPARC Station was introduced, Sun went 64-bit with the debut of its UltraSPARC I RISC processor; the first model ran at 143MHz and had 128-bi

101 Killer Apps for your Pocket PC is a handy reference freeware and shareware book for users of Pocket PC PDAs. It's quite comprehensive, but very application biased.

Performance per watt has taken a backward step, but it’s very fast with the right apps.

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

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

I've recently spent a couple of weeks on site at a client running a Linux training course and dabbling with the popular and powerful Web-caching package, Squid.

Four years ago, I saw a picture of a very beautiful desktop interface, called 'Enlightenment', running on an Operating System called 'Linux'. I didn't know much about either, but I downloaded and installed Linux anyway in order to run that fine looking user interface. Thanks to that early interest, I now enjoy a wonderful job designing and maintaining networks in which Linux often fills an important role. There's no better way to learn something new than for it to be enjoyable. With this in mind, I'd like to present Mike's Hopefully nifty guide to having fun with Linux.

What does Google’s online office suite and core applications offer over the Microsoft alternative?

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Abundance of custom code turn online apps into attractive target.

Run Windows apps on Linux by running Windows itself. Leigh Dyer shows you how.

Surprisingly powerful for the price, even if the best features are reserved for the more expensive Plus version.

Build in back-up and virtual desktops in the works for Apple users.

TI's current workstation-class 3D graphics accelerators - dubbed X1 - are the company's latest effort to keep a hand in the high-end 3D graphics market. Consumer-level 3D hardware is now massively powerful, of course, but for all-out 3D performance and rock-solid driver integration you need a card dedicated to the purpose, and ATI claims the X1-128 is it.