The office suite market is still, after all this time, owned by Microsoft. In spite of rivals that are generally accepted as being better and cheaper than Microsoft Office, the stranglehold that Gates' software giant has ...

The number of companies in most sections of the software market continues to decline as mergers and buyouts reduce your effective choice. This isn't true of the burgeoning market for photo editing software, though. With more ...

This year's face-off between the big multimedia encyclopaedias has seen them both facing a brand new threat. In much the same way that Microsoft's Cinemania package was rendered obsolete by the Internet Movie Database, both Encarta ...

The annual battle of the multimedia encyclopaedias has, over time, narrowed down to two suspects. While the likes of Compton, Grolier and Hutchinson are still going, you're more likely to find them on budget labels than ...

With all the extra automation that Microsoft keeps building into Windows, you might think that disk housekeeping software is a thing of the past. In fact, it's needed just as much today as it has ever ...

Whether you should or shouldn't be online trying to sell your wares is probably an argument long since relegated to the 'inconsequentiality' bin. Take a look around the Web at your competitors. If they are trading ...

When computers were new to the world, people talked of 'killer applications' - programs so useful that they helped sell the PCs they were designed for. Word processors, spreadsheets and databases were the original killer applications ...

Most computer owners in this country run Microsoft Windows 98 at the moment. However, Microsoft is sending out mixed messages about the way forward. Currently, Windows ME and Windows 2000 Professional are possible upgrades, with Windows ...

Linux isn't just for servers, you know. IBM recently demonstrated Linux running on a wristwatch. A bit Star Trek, but clever. Of course, very few people are ever going to want to run Linux on a ...

If music be the food of love, then that could quite possibly bring a whole new meaning to the phrase 'air guitar solo'. Whether you're into rock music and head-banging, or dance, trance, hip-hop, drum'n'bass, electropop, ...

There are certain programs that all business users should have installed on their PCs; a word processor, a spreadsheet package and some form of business graphics utility. You may also want a powerful database program, or ...

Practically all desktop and internal modems on sale today are not only capable of fax and data communications, but have voice messaging features too. If you are prepared to leave the host PC switched on 24 ...