NATURAL LANGUAGE SEARCH IN VISTA

Windows Search 4 is an important upgrade for Windows Vista and Windows XP, enabling lightning-fast searches through your files and email for any word or phrase, anywhere. Here’s more information about Windows Search. It’s possible to do natural language...

MICROSOFT OFFICE ULTIMATE DISCOUNT

If you’re sending a student off to college with a new laptop, Microsoft has a pretty good deal. A student with an email address at an educational institution (typically the email addresses end in .EDU) can buy a copy of Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for $59.95...

VISTA SERVICE PACK 1 CLEANUP

If you’re running Windows Vista, here’s a safe way to reclaim some hard drive space. Before Vista Service Pack 1 is installed, Vista makes an extra copy of all the system files that are updated by the service pack. They’re used to restore the system...

THE MOJAVE EXPERIMENT

Microsoft has put up a web site for “The Mojave Experiment,” with film footage of people responding favorably to what they believed was a brand-new secret operating system, then catching their reactions when told they were looking at Vista. It’s...