Fancy winning a brand new Ultrabook? Acer is giving Facebook users a chance to win one of their Aspire S7 Windows 8 Ultrabooks, one a day, until December 31st. That's 34 in total! More...

Microsoft will release another 8 patches this coming Tuesday December 9 to block Remote Code Execution in a number of its own software, including Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, and Visual Basic. 6 are labeled... More...

This week we'll be revisiting some of the more popular stories that were viewed and commented on, in-case you missed them the first time around. This week saw new Windows 7 information hit the... More...

Midway Games Inc. and Epic Games today announced that the PlayStation 3 version of Unreal Tournament 3 is scheduled to ship to retail outlets in North America on December 10th. It is expected to begin... More...

Beginning December 11, three new multiplayer maps will be available for players of Bungie's Halo 3 (X360). Titled the Heroic Map Pack, its three maps--Foundry, Rat's Nest, and Standoff--will be downloadable from the online Xbox... More...

Back in April 2006, we made a change to how Internet Explorer handled embedded controls used on some webpages. Some sites required users to "click to activate" before they could interact with the control. Microsoft... More...

Neowin.net & PowerUser.TV present the NeowinCAST News Edition for the week of December 29th 2006. This week our panel consists of Chris (bangbang023) and Todd (LOC) as they discuss the 3 current generation consoles in... More...

AutoPatcher is a comprehensive collection of patches, addons and registry tweaks that give you peace of mind in the knowledge that your Windows system is up to date, even before you connect it to the... More...

Microsoft DirectX is a group of technologies designed to make Windows-based computers an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements such as full-color graphics, video, 3D animation, and rich audio. It... More...

These ISO-9660 CD image files contain the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on December 12th, 2006. They do not contain security updates for other Microsoft products. These CD images are intended for... More...

Microsoft have posted an accumulation of security bulletins for the month of December 2006, an end-user version of security focus can be viewed here and the Protect Your PC website initiative link is also recommended... More...

These ISO-9660 CD image files contain the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on December 12th, 2006. They do not contain security updates for other Microsoft products. These CD images are intended for... More...

On 12 December 2006 Microsoft is planning to release: Security Updates Five Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows. The highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft... More...

Exchange Server 2007 will be released to manufacturing in December and be available to customers within a number of days after that, Microsoft officials have confirmed. The formal announcement of Exchange 2007's RTM date was... More...

What has AMD got coming up during the last three months of the year? A host of 65nm and 90nm Athlons, apparently, according to roadmap slides posted on the internet last week which would seem... More...

A few days after the release of the Windows Vista December CTP (build 5270) Paul Thurrott has put up a comprehensive review of it and claims as expected to already know most -if not all,... More...

The December Microsoft Windows Vista Community TechnologyPreview (CTP) is the third in a series of early Windows Vista buildsbeing released to an extensive technical community. The CTP program isdesigned to involve customers and partners in... More...

Paul apparently knows that beta testers will get this today, since he posted this last wednesday and hasn't updated it since it will be interesting to see if he's correct. Taken from WinInfo: Sources... More...

Heres todays weekly look at Paul Thurrotts view of the world as he knows it. I left out the Microsoft finally patches IE snippet due to some problems that have since arisen from those patches... More...

AutoPatcher is a comprehensive collection of patches, addons and registry tweaks that give you peace of mind in the knowledge that your Windows system is up to date, even before you connect it to the... More...

Microsoft DirectX is a group of technologies designed to make Windows-based PCs an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements such as full- color graphics, 3D animation, video and rich audio.... More...

Microsoft has just posted their security patch builletin for the month of December. As usual all required patches for your PC can be found on Windows Update. Here's a brief summary of the two patches... More...

The man who just 'knows' has spoken out on the December CTP build & possible dates of delivery. Testers were sadly disappointed last month when Microsoft failed to deliver the November CTP build (that would... More...

Electronic Arts may not have rushed out NFL Street 2, but much to everyone's surprise, the sequel to the original game will not only ship early (i.e. December 26), it's actually hitting retail shelves in... More...

Intel plans to cut prices for its complete lineup of 915 core-logic chipsets on December 26, with the goal of boosting sales of the PCIe-enabled chipsets in the channel, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard... More...

Sony's PSP is hitting Japan within the year, with a price in the same ballpark as the Nintendo DS. Official word on battery life, to boot. After months of analyst speculation that... More...

Infinium Labs' new president is gunning for Christmas. That's when Kevin Bachus hopes to get both the Phantom gaming network and the accompanying console into the hands of eager cyber aficionados. ... More...

AutoPatcher XP 4.2 is out! This release contains a whole swag of new fixes (a total of 180!) so be sure to grab this update now! See below for a complete list of what is... More...

From Technet webcast event email update Thank you for your interest in tomorrow's December 10, 2003, Technet Security Webcast: "Information about Microsoft's December Security Bulletins" – THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED due... More...

On December 9, Microsoft will release its new monthly security bulletins scheme. Each month, after a security patch release, Microsoft's Product Support Services core team will conduct a technical webcast to explain the patch and... More...

The 2.6 version of the Linux core is expected in December and will be much more stable on arrival than its predecessor, according to the programmer in charge of the software. The current test version,... More...

Intel, preparing for its upcoming Grantsdale line, will cut 865 series chipset pricing by as much as 6.3% on December 28. According to Intel's roadmap, it will launch Grantsdale P and Grantsdale G chipsets supporting... More...

WE LEARNED about the Intel Prescott launch date just before IDF started but we didn't want to create panic in already hectic days for Intel employees. Aren't we sweet? Prescott is a 2004 chip in... More...

Video game sales of last year rose 21 percent over 2001, with the last month of the year rising seven percent from a year earlier. Total sales for 2002 reached a record $10.3 billion. ... More...

We couldn't let 2002 go without including Paul's final Short Take post for 2002. Heres two to wet your appetite. Microsoft in Macromedia Buyout Rumor A rumor is making the rounds... More...

This update fixes an issue with Microsoft OutlookTM 2000 in Internet Mail Only (IMO) mode after the Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3) is installed, in which Outlook 2000 reminders may not behave as... More...

This is a cumulative patch for Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0. In addition to including the functionality of all previously released patches for Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0, it also eliminates a newly discovered flaw... More...

Ripped from Betanews. While Windows XP has enjoyed retail sales slightly under that of Windows 98, beta testers who contributed to the overall success of the product have yet to receive their own... More...