Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked publicly for the first time on Monday about the next big Office release, code-named Office 14, which he said will give users new ways to access their applications online.

Microsoft's recent decision to ship its upcoming Internet Explorer (IE) 8.0 browser with Web standards-based rendering enabled by default doesn't fully answer the complaints that browser competitor Opera has expressed to antitrust regulators in the European Union (EU), according to Opera CTO Hakon Wium Lie. His company has outlined a set of technical concerns that he thinks the EU should force Microsoft to address. One of the concerns is that IE 8.0 should fully comply with the Acid2 standards test.

Windows registry is a database that contains important information and settings for all the hardware, software, users, and preferences of your PC. Whenever you make a change to "Control Panel" settings, system policies, or installed software, the changes are stored in the registry. However this database is vulnerable and often may get corrupted or contain errors that may slow-down your PC, freeze, crash and so on. Read on to find out how to fix this.