Today Vista launches. I’ve received a number of e-mails from readers looking for more information on the black arts of the OEM edition, so here it is: my brief introduction to everything you need to ...

Rommel asked the Windows forum why the OEM version of Windows 7 is cheaper than the upgrade version. Both were from the same retailer. The Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) version of a program is ...

Microsoft's OEM software has different licensing terms than the retail versions. Retail software allows for five Internet authentications, after which phone authentication is necessary. On ...

Serious vulnerabilities have crept into the software tools that PC manufacturers preload on Windows computers, but the full extent of the problem is much worse than previously thought. Researchers ...

If Microsoft expects its customers to take license agreements seriously, it has a responsibility to communicate the terms of those agreements to its customers clearly and unambiguously. As I noted ...

Solution providers need to step up their security game when it comes to reselling OEM solutions to clients, as a new report out Tuesday warned of significant security vulnerabilities pre-installed on ...

Many times you will see software for sale that is listed as OEM , Academic, Upgrades, or Full Versions, all at different prices. This may lead to some confusion making you think that they are all ...

BOSTON – One of the cheapest places to buy software is on eBay, where merchants sell programs that come directly from manufacturers, saving them from paying a mark-up to distributors. But it may also ...

Android skins seem to get more annoying every year. The skins themselves aren’t getting worse, necessarily, but more and more third-party apps have adopted Google’s unified Material Design aesthetic.