CBS decides to buy CNET for $1.8 billion. Not too shabby. CNET has some experience with purchasing companies as well. Check out some of the purchases CNET has made in recent history.

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HP has announced a major purchase of EDS to make an impact in the field of services. Wait - didn't they run this play once before when they bought Compaq? Sure enough. Has HP learned from history or are they doomed again for the next few years?

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As a software vendor revs a product, more features wind up getting added to it. Sometimes these features overlap features in another product sold by the same vendor creating confusion. This Classic Tip examines Exchange Public Folders and their overlap with SharePoint.

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Everyone loves to beat up Microsoft for making the worst PC software ever. But did they? Plenty of other companies have shipped software buggier than an anthill. Check this list and place your vote for the worst software maker ever.

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Check out this concept video from PDC 2003 about Longhorn. Longhorn, of course, became Vista, but there's very little in Vista that we see here. What went wrong?

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The registry has been around since Windows 3.1. Here's a classic tip from May 2000 that shows one way to keep it straightened out along with some updates and further discussion about the registry.

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It may seem like something like gathering screen shots for an old game like F-19 Stealth Fighter is nothing but fun and games. Not so. When you start mixing old software with new technology, you can sometimes be in for a lot of work. Find out what I had to go through to build an F-19 Stealth Fighter photo gallery.

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For a long time, the F-117 was top secret technology. In 1988, Microprose Software created a game called F-19 Stealth Fighter which allowed people to get the first experience with how a stealth fighter works. The F-117 has been retired, but you can check out this blog entry and associated photo gallery to see how the F-19 flies.

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Office 2007 and the introduction of the OpenXML file format has created all sorts of headaches when it comes to backward compatibility with previous versions. Here's a classic tip from April 2000 which shows that this is a long standing problem and how to get around it.

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Digging around the TechRepublic archives, I found a bunch of images from the almostEverest expedition. Click through and see what I found along with some personal observations from one of the climbers.

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