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• An old hard drive and OS in a new PC

  Terry Marshall asked if he could move his old hard drive, unchanged, to his new home-built PC, boot his existing, "very stable" XP installation, and skip Windows 7 altogether.

• Oklahoma City using SIEM to crack down on hackers - and wayward employees

  Oklahoma City is using technology that not only watches for signs of any hacker activity on its municipal government network, but monitors employee online behavior to assure no one's going out of bounds.

• 10 things IT groups need to know about The Rapture [The End!]

  First the background. Harold Camping, founder of the Family Radio network, has been insisting for months, via broadcasts and billboards, that on Saturday, May 21, at 6 p.m., The Rapture will take place and the end of world, as we know it anyway, will start. He's done this before, in 1994 to be precise, so it's a bit odd that he's getting so much attention this time.

• Windows debugging made easy

  When it comes to debugging hard-to-diagnose software and operating-system problems, there is no set recipe. Rather debugging is all about "having the right tools and knowing how to use them," advised Microsoft technical fellow Mark Russinovich at the close of the Microsoft TechEd conference, held this week in Atlanta.

• NTT DoCoMo plans pocket-size Windows 7 device

  Japan's NTT DoCoMo plans to launch what it calls the world's smallest Windows 7 computer in the next two months.

• Windows Thin PC nears final release

  Microsoft has issued a release candidate of Windows Thin PC, a stripped-down version of Windows 7 for thin clients, and will make the software widely available by the end of this quarter.

• Feds Agree to End Antitrust Oversight of Microsoft

  After May 12, Microsoft will no longer be the subject of antitrust oversight as U.S. Department of Justice lawyers have agreed to let the 10-year-old settlement between the United States and Microsoft expire.

• Windows 7 expands lead over Vista, still dwarfed by Windows XP

  Windows 7 has expanded its lead over Windows Vista with more than 350 million licenses sold after 18 months on the market, Microsoft said Friday. But Windows XP, older than both Vista and 7, still captures about half of the desktop operating system market with Mac and Linux far behind.

• Windows 7 reigns supreme...at least in the US

  Windows 7 has finally assumed its rightful place on the desktop operating system throne -- usurping Windows XP for the first time. Granted, Windows 7 reign only covers the United States, but it is still a significant milestone on the path to becoming the number one OS globally.

• Microsoft Windows troubleshooter goes remote

  Microsoft has expanded the capabilities of its Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) to allow administrators to troubleshoot ill-behaving desktop Windows computers from afar.

• Acer unveils Android-based iPad rivals: Where's Dell?

  The same day Dell made international news for criticising the iPad by proclaiming it to be unsuitable for Enteprise use, computer giant Acer has quietly announced its own line-up of tablet PCs that run either Android or Windows.

• Internet Explorer 9: The OS and hardware matter

  Internet Explorer 9 is officially here. But, IE9 is only compatible with Windows 7 and Windows Vista, so two-thirds of the PCs in the world can't take advantage of it.

• Why Internet Explorer 9 will never be number one

  Internet Explorer 9 will be officially available Monday, March 14. Microsoft has a dominant, but dwindling stake in the overall browser market, led by Internet Explorer 8. The reality, though, is that there is virtually no chance that Internet Explorer 9 will be as successful as IE8.

• MSI to release three 10.1-inch touchscreen tablets in June

  Taiwanese PC maker Micro-Star International (MSI) said on Thursday it would target business users with the release of three new 10.1-inch touchscreen tablet PCs on June 1, two with Windows 7 and one with Google's Android Honeycomb OS.

• Must-have tools and tricks

  It's time for another grab bag of hassle killers. This week I tell you how to get a disposable e-mail address to use as a spam magnet, how to turn off Windows 7's automatic window resizing, and how to recover data from a crashed drive.