As we said in our last blog post, Forrester's global IT spending forecast shows that PC sales are going flat and tablets (and smartphones) are growing. This just in: tomorrow …

Tablets are taking over. Forrester Research released its annual IT spending report with news that tablets will continue to lead in hardware sales. Tablet and devices continue to gain momentum …

The Rhyme of the Ancient Programmer (with heartfelt apologies to STC) It is an ancient Programmer, And he stoppeth one of three. ‘By thy long gray beard and bloodshot eye, …

Perhaps because Windows 8 is pre-installed on most new desktops and laptops we're seeing a bit more confusion about how to install the VB6 AI Migrator. So I thought I'd …

As it happens we talk to a LOT of people who want to modernize their legacy client/server apps. So we get a certain amount of unscientific survey data about what …

On August 24, 2013, I'll be celebrating a wedding and Windows XP will be wearing a party hat for its 12th birthday. Almost 40% of desktops are still running Windows …

With IDC reporting the single biggest quarterly decline in PC shipments since they began tracking such data in 1994, it's beginning to look like the the downward slope is more …

From the Seattle Times: VB7 mixup tied to hearing loss, Microsoft executive admits A recall today of Visual Basic 7, the latest release of the popular programming language, was due …

Given that 88 percent of surveyed companies admit they have a "problem" with legacy applications (57 percent rated the problem as serious) if you haven't yet started planning your application …

The amount of buzz around application modernization and migration these days is enormous--it seems that a perfect storm may be brewing: End of life for Windows XP and Visual Basic …