How does Microsoft’s free new video app for Windows 7 stack up? Our opinion: Best free A/V software for PCs, no extra hardware needed. Read more

Camtasia for Mac does more than take screen shots. Here's how this Mac software's features and price stack up against the competition. Read more

Microsoft's free tool helps you fix, organize, and share photos. Did Microsoft just catch up to Apple's iPhoto? What about Google's Picasa? Read more

Gather round, office productivity geeks: We've gotten our hands on Microsoft's Office 2010 Technical Preview and found 20 features worth talking about. Read more

The first demo of the Office 2010 technical preview shows Windows 7 integration, new features in Outlook, and ribbon everywhere. Read more

The last test version of Windows 7 ties up loose ends, adds remote streaming, XP virtualization, and looks nearly ready for primetime. Read more

Get yourself off Google's tracking grid, create and backup online forms, bring Twitter to Google and Gmail, and take back a misfired Gmail message. Read more

What’s new in the Windows 7 RC, what do you need to run it and how's compatibility? We ask Mike Nash, the man who runs the Windows platform strategy team Read more

Here are nine design traits that Microsoft considered using in Windows 7, but didn't. Microsoft presented this alternate reality version at MIX09. Read more

Just released: Apple's Safari 4 Beta. There's plenty to love and hate about it. Blazing speed is great, but the restore tabs function is still missing. Read more