Crave writer Amanda Kooser kisses her Windows XP machine farewell and turns to Windows 7 for comfort, but not without worrying about the transition. At least a little. Freelance writer Amanda C.

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It's really been ages since I've done an editorial. I think what kind of happened is what always happens; you end up busy for a few weeks and don't get a chance to do it and by the time you finally ...

It's February 1: The first "official" day of the Steven Sinofsky Windows era. Yes, I know Senior Vice President of Windows and Windows Live Engineering Sinofsky has been working on Windows Vista and ...

Contain your excitement, here comes another new Windows operating system from Microsoft. On October 22, barely three years after it debuted the less-than-stellar Windows Vista, Microsoft will launch ...

-- Context-sensitive menus that allow you to select frequently used operations like listening to music, launching a program or opening a specific file --Smart features designed to reduce nagging about ...

From Seattle, NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports on how important this is to Microsoft. WENDY KAUFMAN: Microsoft made its name and stunningly large sums of money as the undisputed king of personal computing.