• Mainsoft Backs Visual Studio 2008 in Tools

  
  Cross-platform development products leverage Windows skills for deployment on Java, Linux, and Unix.

• Vista May Still Have Its Day

  
  Think Windows Vista is a hopeless dog and XP was always the cat's meow among users? Think again.
• One-Third of New PC Buyers Opt for XP
• Microsoft Updates a Patch
• Vista Users Rush for SP1; XP Owners Dawdle on SP3
• Will Microsoft Continue to Activate New XP Installations?
• WSJ: Microsoft Hires Seinfeld to Bite Apple
• How Do I Remotely Troubleshoot Someone Else's PC?
• Microsoft May Use 2,000 Developers for Windows 7
• Vendors Rally While Windows Sleeps

Windows How-Tos

• Will Microsoft Continue to Activate New XP Installations? Gunther Steinberg of Portola Valley, California wants to know if he'll be able to install Windows XP on a new computer, and have Microsoft activate it, "in 2010 and later."
• How Do I Remotely Troubleshoot Someone Else's PC? I answer BobJam's question, originally posted on the Answer Line Forum, on remotely controlling his sister's PC to help her with a technical problem.
• Eliminate Hassles With Antivirus, Flash, Task Manager, and iTunes Get the lead out of AVG, fix the Windows Task Manager toolbar, and dump duplicate files.
• When Is Vista not Vista? When It's Mojave! Microsoft resorts to subterfuge to get people to try Windows Vista, as Steve Bass recently found. Plus, tips for Outlook and Windows passwords.
• Troubleshoot Your Boot-Up and Shutdown Problems Does your PC hang, complain, or flat-out blue-screen when you start it up or shut it down? PC World's Lincoln Spector has answers to readers' most perplexing boot and shutdown questions.

Windows News

• Mainsoft Backs Visual Studio 2008 in Tools Cross-platform development products leverage Windows skills for deployment on Java, Linux, and Unix.
• Vista May Still Have Its Day Think Windows Vista is a hopeless dog and XP was always the cat's meow among users? Think again.
• One-Third of New PC Buyers Opt for XP New data finds 1 in 3 business PCs pass on Vista to get Windows XP under Microsoft's "downgrade" offer.
• Microsoft Updates a Patch Microsoft has re-released a security updates, saying the initial patch was incomplete.
• Vista Users Rush for SP1; XP Owners Dawdle on SP3 Pent-up demand for Vista fixes drove users to install SP1, researcher says.

Windows Playing in PCW Video

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  Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Launch Preview New server OS emphasizes security, virtualization, Web productivity and business intelligence changes.
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  Apple Annouces Safari for Vista and XP At the WWDC '07 in San Francisco, Apple's CEO Steve Jobs announced that Apple's Safari 3 Web browser would be available for Windows XP and Vista.
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  Intel's Upcoming Menlow Platform Intel shows off space-saving chips for ultra-mobile devices.