If you’ve ever struggled with your PC’s BIOS, or been knee-capped by a rootkit that assailed the BIOS, you undoubtedly wondered why this archaic part of every PC wasn’t scrapped long ago. Well, be of good cheer: Windows 8 will finally pull the PC industry out of the BIOS generation and into a far more [...]

Microsoft’s TechEd 2009 conference kicked off today with a fairly forthcoming keynote that included not only the announcement of a Windows 7 release date season but an indirect demonstration of the forthcoming Office 2010 Technical Preview build. The best-I-can-do-from-a-streaming-video screenshots below comes from Bill Veghte’s quick demonstration of Windows 7 in which he launched 3 [...]