"Twice as fast for half the price" could be the statement that gets Apple in a heap of trouble. William Gillis of San Diego is suing Apple for its claims that the new iPhone... More...

In May 2007, this 15-year Windows veteran replaced his old, beloved, XP-powered Vaio with a newer Vaio that came with Windows Vista Business installed. Practically overnight, he told me, his experience went from "awesome" to... More...

Some people have been turning to a utility called vLite, which out components of the operating system deemed unessential. "Microsoft does not recommend using any tool to strip out applications from Windows Vista prior to... More...

Qtrax, a new free music download service, backed off claims that it has deals with all four major music companies after Warner Music Group denied it had agreed terms with the start-up. "Warner Music... More...

Twisted congratulations to Nintendo for becoming the first company to score zero out of 10 in Greenpeace's environmentally friendly rankings. But hey, don't worry too much Nintendo, because Microsoft isn't far behind. Both companies have... More...

VMware introduced its new connection broker for its recommended virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) Monday at the VMworld exhibition in San Francisco. On Wednesday, the leading virtualization vendor laid out its vision for building that VDI... More...

After the recent news that Microsoft is now censoring users of its instant messaging software from receiving messages containing .info, as well as things like .pif which they were already blocking, I decided to do... More...

Microsoft Corp. Thursday rejected the idea that its deal last year with Novell Inc. ties it to the new General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3) and said it will not support any software distributed under... More...

Apple critics will be happy to know that Apple's refreshed MacBook line of laptops doesn't include Intel's recently announced "Santa Rosa" update to Centrino. Santa Rosa replaces the existing Centrino Duo platform and splits it... More...

Out there, in the blogging world, a lot of facts can get mixed up with rumours and lies. George Ou has attempted to put an end to the whole Vista and DRM confusion. I said... More...

As many of you have discovered already, the newly released (for 800 Microsoft points no less) Valor map pack for Call of Duty 3 has 5 brand new maps for you to kill each other... More...

Running Windows Vista's new Aero graphical interface doesn't impact PC performance, a study sponsored by Microsoft claims. According to speed measurements of more than 60 common business chores, which were conducted by North Carolina-based Principled... More...

Thanks to shishyan for the heads up! Take a trip to the preview site for Microsoft's new homepage and you'll notice a nice shiny new layout with a fresher look and feel to it,... More...

Microsoft Smartphone community 'MoDaCo' discovered they had a thief in their midst at the 'MoDaCo Summer Event' last weekend, when a charity-raffle bound SPV C550 went missing. However, it really isn't smart to... More...

The EU's anti-trust chief met Microsoft's CEO in Brussels and warned him that the tech giant must stop abusing Windows' virtual monopoly or face action, the European Commission said on Wednesday. European Union Competition Commissioner... More...

FireFox fans across the world, grab the Kleenex! According to a paper recently published by Eric Johanson of the Shmoo Group, users on most Mozilla-based browsers (Firefox 1.0, Camino .8.5, Mozilla 1.6, etc),... More...

A big thanks goes out to Neowin's very own BOOGSoftball™ for spotting this bit of news. Most musicians and artists say the Internet has helped them make more money from their work... More...

You'd think that by now Microsoft Outlook would be a pretty complete product. And it generally is, except that it doesn't do a number of things that it really ought to. Like these dozen features... More...

If you plan on installing Microsoft's 64-bit version of Windows XP on your Intel Nocona Xeon processors you're out of luck. Apparently the 64-bit version Windows can't run with Nocona extensions. However you... More...

Security expert http-equiv on Full-Disclosure has reported that the patch for the latest security vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer (MS02-032) doesn't fix the problem. A link to a proof of concept exploit is included in... More...

A bit of information regarding the new gaming products of the home electronics giant. The Playstation Portable, which will challenge old-timer Nintendo GBA and newcomer Nokia N-Gage, will ship to retailers late 2004. This sounds... More...

WE ASKED AROUND the industry why the nVidia GeForce FX does not use a 256bit bus with DDR II memory. We learned that nVidia wanted to go for DDR II memory simply because DDR I... More...

BUGS IN Microsoft DirectX 9 can cause multiplayer problems, an Italian web site reports today. According to hardwareirc.com, the bugs it has discovered are fairly seriously – it's tested DirectX 9 on... More...

A promotion that promises to sweeten the pain of the $129 update to Apple's OS X 10.2 Jaguar release doesn't apply to Jaguar, leaving Register readers perplexed. One reader in New York... More...

Well actually it does but I couldn't think of a title quick enough :P Thanks Bunnios who sent me a screenshot of the Windows XP SP1 installing. So what! I hear y'all cry,... More...

Road Runner (owned primarily by AOL/TW) will not support XP. From the article: 'Road Runner, the second-largest cable Internet service provider (ISP) in the nation with more than 1.4 million subscribers, does not support the... More...