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Many screenshots and info for the leaked, upcoming, Windows Mobile 2005.

Paul Thurrott has updated his "Road to Longhorn" article with new, never seen before screenshots of Longhorn. Some interesting new approaches to usability and UI can be seen there.

With an April 12 deadline fast approaching for the large-scale rollout of Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft offers some free help to smooth the migration for large enterprise customers.

Microsoft's much anticipated and frequently postponed OS may ultimately lack compelling reasons for customers to upgrade.

Microsoft may have started shipping its cheaper version of Windows in Asia, but getting support for its low-cost computing vision is still very much a work in progress.

Microsoft has released an early version of Indigo, a new communications system intended to let Windows programs more easily connect to other software. Update: Videos showing Indigo.

Avalon is the new rendering and compositing technology that Microsoft is developing primarily for Longhorn (Microsoft's next release of Windows) that is available in beta form on Windows XP.

Microsoft may not be willing to talk file-system futures, but it is working to back-port its future file-system technology to Windows XP.

Two of the biggest forces in the IT industry called on developers to begin porting their applications to x86-based 64-bit architectures. Microsoft and Intel said hardware and software pieces are in place to convert the computing industry away from a 32-bit Wintel ecosystem (define) to a world where all platforms, from servers and workstations through desktop and mobile, can run at nearly twice the speed with a larger address space. Elsewher, Microsoft's Longhorn Windows client product team will be led by G. Michael Sievert.

Microsoft is alerting customers that it will soon start delivering Windows XP Service Pack 2 to all customers using Automatic Update, whether they want it or not.

This chapter explains the basics of process management and also introduces basic synchronization operations. If you're at all interested in Windows system programming, this is the place to start.

Here's a story that the next generation of Windows spyware and exploits are starting to make use of "kernel rootkits". A paper at Microsoft Research has details on a prototype detection tool.

This guide found exclusively at OSNews.com in PDF format is mostly focused on creating a decently secure installation of Windows XP Professional for an end-user. While the vast majority can be applied to Windows XP Home, and OEM Restore Disk Sets, there are a few instances where these two media will need to be setup in a different manner.

Microsoft wants Windows to play well with others. To do that, it's recoating the future in Indigo.