Just last week we were discussing Net Apps' data about OS usage and browser preferences, where Windows 7 was hitting a 10% worldwide market share by the end of January. That's an estimate for the general population, but how about PC enthusiasts and gamers?

Online payment processor PayPal has stopped processing some transactions in India - and is even reversing some funds transfers.

Online payment processing service PayPal has announced that it has suspended some transactions in India while it works with partners to “address questions they have about the service.” Paypal customers can still make commercial payments to India, but merchants are not able to withdraw funds to local Indian banks in rupees.

A 17-year-old bug in Windows will be patched by Microsoft in its latest security update. The February update for Windows will close the loophole that dates from the time of the DOS operating system.

First appearing in Windows NT 3.1, the vulnerability has been carried over into almost every version of Windows that has appeared since. The monthly security update will also tackle a further 25 holes in Windows, five of which are rated as "critical".

These days system virtualization is used almost everywhere. Most of you who are reading this article have probably already used some of the well known virtualization applications like Virtual PC, Hyper-V, Xen Server, VmWare ESX or VmWare client etc.
I will give you a tip on how to improve your virtual machine performance, especially if you've made a physical to virtual conversion.

Mozilla on Friday said that it had removed two Firefox add-ons from its Web site because they installed malware.
"Two add-ons in the experimental section of addons.mozilla.org were found to be containing malware," Mozilla said on its security blog.

Microsoft is planning to offer buyers of Office 2007 a free upgrade to Office 2010, according to a leaked blog post.

The company regularly offers customers free upgrades in the run up to the release of a new version of Windows or Office, although this time the details appear to have leaked a little sooner than Microsoft hoped.