The best free PC software programs aren’t about the cost (or lack thereof), they’re about a fresh opportunity—collections of code that put the dumb hardware in your computer to smart use, tools that ...

If you've been using a personal computer for long enough, you've probably made a habit of interchangeably referring to the applications on your hard drive as programs or software. Both terms have been ...

There is a saying that every business today is a software company. That’s true in that the success of so many businesses in so many industries is closely tied to software, either for maintaining ...

It’s often said that every business today is a software company. That’s not just because so many businesses across so many industries depend on system software and applications for their day-to-day ...

Oracle introduced a new hosting service on Monday geared toward other software makers--the company's latest push to capitalize on the growing popularity of subscription software. The program, Oracle ...

We’ve all heard the expressions “you get what you pay for” and “nothing in this world is free” before, but in the crazy world of cyberspace, those adages couldn’t be less true. There are literally ...

Today, open-source software is everywhere but many peple still think of it as being relatively new. It's not. Open-source software actually goes back decades. Before beginning our journey in the ...

PCWorld senior editor Brad Chacos wrote an excellent story about the best software for a new PC. But if we’re talking the barest minimum, anyone with a Windows PC really, absolutely must have a ...

MIT researchers have developed an experimental software framework called Jolt that allows applications to recover in some cases when they hang. When Jolt detects that ...

Microsoft Corp. is planning several major changes to beef up features of Software Assurance, the company’s maintenance and upgrade program that has been criticized for its expense and slow follow-up ...

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As the saying goes, the best things in life are free: love, friends, and great software that works almost as well as a paid product. If you’re like me, you have probably shopped around for certain ...