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Buy Microsoft Visio Professional or Microsoft Project Professional 2024 for up to 92% off

Microsoft's project management tools help plan, execute, and complete projects -- and they're on sale right now.

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Windows 11 editions explained: Versions, SKUs, and Home vs. Pro
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Buy Microsoft Office Home & Business 2024 for PC or Mac for 36% off right now
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Your Windows 10 PC can't be upgraded? You have 5 options before support ends in 2025
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The best antivirus software and apps you can buy
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Buy Microsoft Visio Professional or Microsoft Project Professional 2024 for up to 92% off

Microsoft's project management tools help plan, execute, and complete projects -- and they're on sale right now.
18 hours ago by Alison DeNisco Rayome in Services & Software
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Windows 11 editions explained: Versions, SKUs, and Home vs. Pro

When you buy a new PC, you typically have a choice of only two Windows editions. But other specialized editions are available, and you might stumble across one of them if you look in the right places. Here's what you need to know.
1 day ago by Ed Bott in Windows
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Buy Microsoft Office Home & Business 2024 for PC or Mac for 36% off right now

The latest Microsoft Office suite includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more. Get it at a discount with this deal.
2 days ago by Alison DeNisco Rayome in Services & Software
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Your Windows 10 PC can't be upgraded? You have 5 options before support ends in 2025

Microsoft will officially end support for its most popular operating system next year. Before that day arrives, here's what you should do with your Windows 10 PCs that fail Microsoft's Windows 11 compatibility tests.
6 days ago by Ed Bott in Enterprise Software
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The best antivirus software and apps you can buy

Protect yourself this holiday season with the best antivirus software of 2024, tested and picked by our experts.
1 week ago by Charlie Osborne in Services & Software
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Gen AI as a software quality tool? Skepticism is fading as more organizations implement it

IT pros' attitudes toward using generative AI as a quality assurance and testing vehicle have shifted significantly over the past 12 months, a new survey found.
1 week ago by Joe McKendrick in Artificial Intelligence
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Snowflake customers eke out early gains from Gen AI applications

For enterprises that have adopted Gen AI, the cost savings of automation are real, as is the speed at which they can achieve meaningful business results.
1 week ago by Tiernan Ray in Artificial Intelligence
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OpenAI plans to offer its 250 million ChaptGPT users even more services

The company's CFO says the startup gets three-quarters of its revenue from consumer subscriptions rather than enterprises.
1 week ago by Tiernan Ray in Artificial Intelligence
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Could AI make data science obsolete?

According to these experts, AI democratizes software development, but could eventually replace it altogether -- and change data science as we know it.
1 week ago by Joe McKendrick in Artificial Intelligence
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Google survey says more than 75% of developers rely on AI. But there's a catch

The research suggests that AI-based tools or agents boost productivity and code quality, but may reduce delivery stability.
2 weeks ago by Joe McKendrick in Developer
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Why remove Russian maintainers of Linux kernel? Here's what Torvalds says

Many of us like to think that our open-source work is unrelated to geopolitics. Think again.
2 weeks ago by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Enterprise Software
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Have a Windows problem that you just can't fix? Try this ultimate troubleshooting trick

If you keep bumping into annoying Windows problems, the solution might be easier than you think. Skip the clean install and try this fix instead. It's fast and easy, and the results can be nearly miraculous.
2 weeks ago by Ed Bott in Windows
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The ultimate Windows 11 upgrade guide: Everything you need to know

New to Windows 11? We've got answers to all your questions - from system requirements to TPMs, Windows 12 expectations, and more - including those you didn't think to ask.
2 weeks ago by Ed Bott in Windows 11
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IBM doubles down on open source AI with new Granite 3.0 models

Big Blue's Granite LLMs are built for business and now they're available under the good old Apache 2.0 license.
2 weeks ago by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Artificial Intelligence
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Today's AI ecosystem is unsustainable for most everyone but Nvidia, warns top scholar

Calling the economics of artificial intelligence 'incredibly unhealthy,' Kai-Fu Lee suggests taking a lesson from Steve Jobs and the iPhone.
2 weeks ago by Tiernan Ray in Artificial Intelligence
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