A friend's computer just recently got updated with something for Windows XP. Since then a bunch of work files on a network drive have a shortcut icon next to them and had their extension (.MAT) ...

Though it’s now over a decade old, Windows XP remains installed on over a quarter of the world’s PCs, which makes it the second most popular operating system (Windows 7 takes the top slot). Despite ...

After reading John Siracusa's excellent article on meta data, I started wondering about what MS is offering in its NTFS 5(.1?) filesystem. Under Windows XP, and perhaps Windows 2000, it seems as if ...