Do you know any Terminal tricks or third-party apps that can bring these three things back to Lion? First, the winding gear in the lower-right corner of a Finder window that lets me know the information is being accessed, just not visible yet. Second, the line of info at the bottom of the Finder window [...]

Conventional wisdom has it that Windows and products from Microsoft are extremely unsafe, easy targets for hackers. That conventional wisdom is wrong, according to security firm Kaspersky Lab’s recent quarterly malware report, which found not a single Microsoft-related threat in the top ten. The Kapersky Lab quarterly report has this to say about Microsoft products: [...]

The best keeps getting better In the wake of Apple’s transition to Intel chips in 2006, the longtime question “Mac or PC?” soon became “What’s the best way for me to run Windows on a Mac?” Virtualization specialists Parallels and VMware have been duking it out ever since with their respective Desktop and Fusion products, [...]

US and Canadian customers were recently able to buy upgrade versions of Windows 7 via a pre-order discount. That policy has changed and pre-order customers must now pay full price. Still, that has not kept UK consumers from buying Windows 7 on pre-order at record pace. According to BBC News, Amazon reported Windows 7 sales [...]

The Apple iPad is essentially a tablet PC that runs on the Apple iOS platform. The device has its share of supporters and detractors, just like many other Apple products. Some believe that is a great tool that has brought tablet PCs into mainstream popularity. However, other people believe that it is simply an overpriced [...]

Initial releases of Microsoft operating systems tend to be pretty easy to pirate, but become more and more irritating to use over time a Microsoft squirts out Windows Genuine Advantage patches through Windows Update. It doesn’t look like Windows 7 is going to be any different: Microsoft has just announced that in the coming days, [...]

Microsoft last week patched the last vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) used by a researcher in March to win $15,000 at the The company had patched IE twice before to quash bugs exploited by Stephen Fewer of Harmony Security to bring down IE8 on Windows 7 at Pwn2Own. For his efforts, Fewer was awarded a [...]

Microsoft said this week it is investigating a lawsuit’s allegation that the camera application on Windows Phone 7 handsets collects location data from nearby Wi-Fi and cellular networks — even if the user refuses permission to do so. But the company repeated its assurance that it doesn’t associate a unique identifier with the location, so [...]

Want to ensure that your PC and all of your files and data stay safe, secure, and private–without breaking the bank? We’ve rounded up 11 free security and privacy utilities that shield you against malware, protect your data at Wi-Fi hotspots, encrypt your hard drive, and do everything in between. (For links to all of [...]

The tablet wars will undoubtedly heat up when Microsoft ships Windows 8 next year. The developer preview of Windows 8–unveiled today at the BUILD Windows conference in Anaheim–underscores how Microsoft’s new OS is nothing like what we’re used to seeing. Microsoft finally looks poised to deliver the touch-friendly operating system that the Windows