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

Still not sure whether it's worth upgrading to Vista? We put XP and Vista through the ultimate face-off.

From Silicon Valley to Station X during the Second World War, why Romania is teeming with software developers, and Zhongguancun in China where Microsoft is building its Chinese headquarters.

For every way that the web has improved life, it has also made things more complicated, frustrating and dangerous..

The world wide web is celebrating its twentieth birthday. Over those last two decades, the web has changed the way society works, plays, and interacts..

Last week, we looked at the geeks who created iconic technologies. This week, we examine the executives who pushed those technologies into becoming the basis of some of the largest businesses in the world.

Blu-ray and HD DVD players will come out fighting this year. We reveal which format is best placed to be DVD’s successor.

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

Can you imagine a time when computers didn't have GPUs? Here are graphics technologies that helped take computing out of the lab and into the hands of consumers and professionals

From the Commodore 64 to Microsoft vs Apple, we take a look at the top 10 fights in technology history.

This week we examine a few of those true 'killer apps,' and what they have meant to computing

From the moon landing, to the rise of Apple and Google, we rate the most inspiring technology moments in history.

Some of the people on this list are successful billionaires, Some Nobel prize winners or high-tech nomads. However, some individuals are weird even by geek standards.

Every industry has its share of villains, and the computing world is no different.

The Internet is booming again, but this time it’s very different. PC Authority brings you up to speed with the global Web 2.0 phenomenon.

Want to skip the Christmas crowds, or nab a once in a lifetime bargain? Online shopping could be the answer. Tim Dean looks at the glory and the pitfalls.

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

How will you be computing in the next 12 months? PC Authority brings you 2005's big technology stories - before they happen.

It is perhaps understandable that mobile phones should be the real leaders in the techno fashion stakes; after all there are close to one billion of them in circulation and the number is growing daily

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