November 4, 2015 Go directly to fail: Worst tech product ideas ever Spray-on hair. New Coke. Pat Boone's heavy metal album. Some products are such bad ideas that some executive must have been snorting canned air before letting them out the door.
November 4, 2015 Should a Chromebook be your next laptop? Chromebooks are laptops that run Google's Chrome operating system.
November 4, 2015 Computer shipments fell 7 percent to punctuate unprecedented drop in annual sales Personal computer sales sank even further during the holiday shopping season, capping the steepest annual decline in PC shipments since desktop and laptop machines began to appear on people's wish lists decades ago.
November 4, 2015 Windows 8.1 is a worthy upgrade, with a few glitches The ability to boot directly to the Desktop?
November 4, 2015 Facing end of PC era, Intel scrambles Intel Corp., the world's largest maker of chips for PCs, put a brave face on the decline of the global PC sales earlier this year, saying it still expected its own sales to grow. On Wednesday, it backtracked, saying sales will be flat.
November 4, 2015 Microsoft fixes critical Internet Explorer flaws This month's Patch Tuesday round of Microsoft software updates will fix a pair of critical Internet Explorer flaws that put every current consumer version of Windows at risk of being attacked.
November 4, 2015 Windows 8, innovative Surface tablet fail to help Microsoft Microsoft's latest quarterly earnings slipped, even as the world's largest software maker showed modest progress adapting to a shift away from the personal computers that have been its financial foundation for decades.
November 4, 2015 Why you can ignore Windows 8 Windows 8 will add some new functions as well as a snazzy, zippy touch interface made of tiles and images. It's much more attractive and flexible than anything Apple has offered to date -- but it's too late and ill-suited for many users.
November 4, 2015 Microsoft poised to send out Internet Explorer 10 in automatic updates to Windows 7 machines Microsoft is escalating its efforts to install the latest version of Internet Explorer to more than 700 million personal computers in an attempt to re-establish the software maker's browser as the best way to surf the Web.
November 3, 2015 New iPads on deck: What to expect from the Apple event Apple is set to cap a busy few weeks with another product event on Thursday, which is expected to involve new iPads and iMacs.
