Earlier this month, Double-Take Software acquired TimeSpring, a vendor of continuous data protection (CDP) software. TimeSpring’s TimeData is available for several Windows applications – Exchange, ...

Microsoft released MS-DOS, a DOS-based operating system, in August 1981, and Windows 1.0 in November 1985. They then co-developed OS/2 with IBM as a successor to DOS, but the project ran into ...

If you've been working with networks for any length of time, you've no doubt had a server's hard disk fill up, which usually means it's time to have users clear out files they no longer use. You can ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

Microsoft's long-awaited new Windows file system is still a work in progress. Although Microsoft hopes to ship a test version of WinFS in late 2006, it could be several more years before the revamped ...

Windows XP has been on the market for a year now, so naturally everyone is clamoring for details on the next version of the world's most popular operating system -- or so Microsoft Corp. hopes.

A recent Windows 11 update includes Dev Drive, a new form of storage volume designed to improve performance for key developer workloads. That storage is based on the Resilient File System (ReFS), as ...

Windows File Manager (winfile) is reborn! The program now comes with enhancements for Windows 11/10. Microsoft Windows File Manager is the graphical user interface (GUI) through which end users can ...