Life after Windows: What happens to tech if Microsoft dies

Free from the Microsoft hegemony, user and developer utopia should ensue, some argue -- but here's why apocalypse is more likely... more

Windows 7's killer feature: Windows on multicore, redux

Running heavy multitasking workloads on advanced multicore hardware, Windows 7 finally surpasses leaner Windows XP... more

InfoWorld review: Desktop virtualization for Windows and Linux heats up

VMware Workstation 7 is still king for developers and techs, but innovative VirtualBox 3.1 and easy-to-use Parallels Desktop 4 gain ground... more

Why Chrome OS will fail -- big time

A lack of flexibility will doom Google's latest ego trip to the dustbin of history... more

Top 10 Windows tools for IT pros

No Windows geek or PC support pro should be without these must-have utilities -- and they're all free... more

The 7 deadly sins of Windows 7

Lust, gluttony, greed, anger, envy, pride, and sloth -- Microsoft's new OS suffers from each deadly sin. Here's what you can do to minimize the toll each sin takes... more

OfficeBench 7: A cool new way to evaluate PC performance

New tool lets users compare how Microsoft Office runs on their PCs to what other users experience... more

Windows 7 drives RAM capacity explosion; Vista SP2 usage rising

Real-world usage data also suggests that the popularity of multicore CPUs will soon hit critical mass for developers... more

Firefox use reaches critical mass; Skype reigns in IM

Real-world usage data shows that most PCs now run Firefox, Skype displaces MSN Messenger, and Asia and Europe love OpenOffice... more

The best free open source software for Windows

If you run Microsoft Windows, you owe it to yourself to try these 10 killer open source apps -- InfoWorld's top picks... more

Windows 7 in review: The revenge of Windows Vista

Windows Vista lacked the right stuff to unseat Windows XP. Does Windows 7 really have what it takes?... more

Why is Microsoft Office so hard to kill?

Apart from the popularity of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, Office happens to be the world's most successful rapid application development platform... more

The many faces of OpenOffice

Variants from IBM, Novell, Sun, and elsewhere tout a variety of advantages over the OpenOffice.org core... more

First look: Microsoft Office 2010

An early Community Technology Preview reveals the obligatory Windows 7 flash, a more smoothly integrated Outlook, easy macro-like automation, and the blissful end to nested-menu tedium... more

Office-compatibility torture test

SoftMaker Office shines and OpenOffice.org falters in InfoWorld's Office-fidelity face-off... more

The better Office alternative: SoftMaker Office bests OpenOffice.org

SoftMaker Office 2008 shows superior compatibility with Microsoft Office formats, while OpenOffice.org 3.1 underwhelms... more

Business netbooks: IT revolution or contradiction in terms?

InfoWorld sifts the wheat from the chaff in the current crop of enterprise-oriented netbooks... more

Windows XP Mode: The new DOS box

Microsoft takes a page out of Apple's playbook to entice Windows 7 fence-sitters, with disappointing results... more

Test Center review: The mightiest ThinkPad

Lenovo's beastly ThinkPad W700ds mobile workstation is a laptop in name only, for better and worse... more

Test Center: A cure for Vista's compatibility blues

Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization taps an anemic virtualization engine to bridge the gap with legacy Windows XP and Windows 2000 applications... more