Andy Patrizio

*UPDATED: If you weren't feeling like an unhired beta tester before, Microsoft is going to make you feel like one now. In an audio blog posting, the

Intel won't comment on published reports it plans to announce the layoff of as much as ten percent of its workforce next Tuesday, the day after Labor Day.

Microsoft's Zune isn't even in the hands of testers yet but already one analyst is giving it a thumbs down, mostly due to its possible hardware legacy. A

Amazon.com has posted the prices for the numerous flavors of Windows Vista, some of which are in line with previous versions and one of which can induce

Microsoft on Tuesday launched a public beta version of Windows Live QnA, a search engine designed for users to ask specific questions that members of the

The uproar over the Consumer Reports special report on computer security continues, this time as anti-spyware vendors express frustration with what they

Moving to a multi-core world means applications will have to be written in a different manner, and as such, Intel has introduced three new utilities to

An FCC certification application has opened the curtain on Microsoft's forthcoming Zune player, providing details on what the player will offer. All

Microsoft is capitulating to tester complaints about the new interface in Office 2007 and adding the option to make the vaunted "ribbon" UI behave like

Reporter's Notebook: You could be forgiven for feeling like an unpaid beta tester these days. It seems everywhere we look these days, we're surrounded by

Microsoft has posted the first release candidate for Internet Explorer 7, adding a number of improvements under the hood along with the usual bug

So, who hasn't had an application or device driver lock up on their computer? Everyone knows that frustration. To counter this, researchers at