This column first appeared in Advisorator, Jared’s weekly tech advice newsletter. Sign up for free to get new tips every week. It’s time to finally get your windowing situation in order. While I love ...

Windows 11 comes with a lot of multitasking features, allowing users to be more productive. Whether you use one or multiple monitors, you can use all of the following multitasking functionalities on ...

Windows 11 is coming soon, and there’s a lot that I like about it. After trying out a “preview” of Windows 11, I mentioned 11 things that excite me the most, including the new Start Menu and the ...

Microsoft (MSFT) on Thursday rolled out its latest version of its Windows operating system. Windows 11, which will be available this holiday season as a free upgrade for existing Windows 10 users, is ...

I use Windows XP at work and Mac OS X at home, and I use R (the statistical programming language) on both. Under OSX, I can have all processor cores maxed out running multiple instances of R without ...

It’s not surprising that an operating system called Windows has historically had an excellent window management feature. Microsoft always made it easy to dock two windows side-by-side using a keyboard ...

Running Windows on a Mac isn’t just for the brave anymore—it’s for the smart. Whether you’re dual-booting with Boot Camp, running Parallels, or keeping a Windows environment handy for dev work or app ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer showed off a few new features that the company will push out to Windows Phone 7 users this year, including access to SkyDrive, multitasking capability and a new HTML5 ...

Microsoft very politely targets Apple in a commercial (posted below) selling their newly announced Windows 7 OS series. This isn’t us interpreting the commercial, the ad literally screams “we do ...

I'm pretty sure there is a simple solution for this problem.<P>I want to run laplink 5 in a dos box in windows 95 and have a file transfer going while the dos session is in the background.<P>Currently ...

There’s an old saying that the more money you have, the more you want. That’s kind of how I feel about external monitors. I’ve got two, but man, three sure would be sweet. And four? Don’t get me ...