Eric Lai - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Eric Lai

Article | 13/02/2007 Vista not playing nice with gamers

Windows Vista's powerful new graphics engine may be one of its hallmark features, but it's engendering complaints from a key segment of potential earl...

Article | 2/02/2007 IBM Labs does mashups, wikis, Second Lives

IBM's research achievements are legendary: the hard drive; DRAM; the relational database; DES data encryption; Deep Blue, the chess-playing supercompu...

Article | 1/02/2007 Vista outlook: Some clouds, sunny by '09, say analysts

If your reaction to all of this week's hype swirling around the launch of Windows Vista is less "Wow!" and more "Whoa! Enough already!" then 2007 coul...

Article | 29/01/2007 Why pirated Vista has Microsoft champing at BitTorrent

As Microsoft gets ready to launch Windows Vista and Office 2007 to consumers, it claims a formidable new foe it lacked at its last major consumer soft...

Article | 23/01/2007 Microsoft mulled Apple partnership, iPod rival in 2003

As far back as 2003, Microsoft considered introducing its own rival to the iPod or seeking a partnership with Apple, according to evidence introduced ...

Article | 10/01/2007 Microsoft's developer relationship seen as key

Despite comments from a Microsoft executive in testimony released last week in which he called software developers "pawns," the company's success at w...

Article | 8/01/2007 Firefox use nearly doubles in '06; Safari gains

Propelled by the release of its Version 2.0 in October, the free Firefox Web browser saw almost a 50% increase in use during 2006, according to one We...

Article | 3/01/2007 Microsoft woos bloggers with free computers, Vista

Microsoft's efforts to woo influential bloggers by sending them free computers loaded with the Vista operating system is generating controversy, with ...

Article | 27/12/2006 Microsoft looks to unify communication methods

Jessica Arnold is Microsoft's product manager for Outlook 2007, the e-mail component of Microsoft's Office 2007 suite. Microsoft has made several impr...

Article | 22/12/2006 Users say Outlook 2007 boosts e-mail management

His real desk may be a mess, but Jason Clarke's virtual office is as neat as they come due to his assiduous answering, filing or deleting of the 400-p...

Article | 13/12/2006 E-mail reveals Microsoft exec would buy a Mac

Longtime Windows development chief James Allchin wrote in a January 2004 e-mail to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and company co-founder Bill Gates that ...

Article | 13/12/2006 Microsoft exec praised Mac 'to change Vista process'

Outgoing Windows development chief James Allchin says he was being "purposefully dramatic" in a three-year-old e-mail to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gat...

Article | 5/12/2006 Microsoft to ship Web design, graphics app by mid-2007

Microsoft plans to release its first suite of Web and graphic design software by mid-2007, putting it into head-to-head competition with graphics king...

Article | 30/11/2006 Microsoft to roll out new version of WGA

Microsoft on Tuesday released a revamped version of its Windows Genuine Advantage tool that it hopes will reduce complaints arising from paid-up users...

Article | 29/11/2006 Want to test Vista risk-free? Try virtualization

Living together is pretty accepted way for modern couples to test a relationship before marriage. So shouldn't there be a way for modern computer user...