Microsoft is offering substantial discount deals on Windows 7 Home Premium packs for families (up to 3 licences) for under $250.

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MSI’s Wind Top AE1900 takes on the touchscreen nettop competition, but singularly fails to excite.

Disable spyware functionality within Windows

A stunning piece of design matched with excellent battery life, but with an Atom inside the price is surely too high

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Linux is turning up in everything from netbooks to Dell PCs, but is it actually fit to replace Windows? Stuart Turton spends a week with Linux to find out.

As we bring our Information Overload summit to a close, we have decided to name and rank the biggest culprits for the overload, the issues which more than anything else are causing companies to drown in a deluge of data..

Give your PC a performance boost

So, the last big name has fallen. HP gave out in April 2008, and both Dell and Toshiba's resistance crumbled by the autumn. But it's taken Sony until the middle of 2009 to produce what it confesses to be a netbook, the VAIO Mini W Series.

Windows 7 can't stop Mac OS X The latest figures from Net Applications suggest that Windows 7 has failed to attract any interest and the Mac is set to become the dominant operating system in the world

Last week, in honour of the Windows 7 launch, we covered Microsoft's biggest successes in the computing field. This week, in the interest of balance, we're looking to the company's dark side..