An early build of Windows "Blue" - the next update to Windows 8 (more of a service pack if you wish), expected to arrive in the second half of the year, has leaked on the web. We downloaded this leak and took it for a quick test drive. Here’s what we learned about what’s new, the changes and improvements that are coming to Windows 8 later this year. The list is longer than you might expect and it includes some interesting surprises.

February was really short. It flew by so fast. However, this doesn’t mean it wasn’t an interesting month. On the contrary: lots of good things happened. To end it in style, we have a large selection of good articles and tutorials for you to read and enjoy. Don’t miss this month’s episode of the Best of the Web for Windows Users. You won't be sorry! :)

One of this weekend’s top stories on InfoWorld was an article where they invited 14 best selling authors of Windows 8 books to share their honest opinion about this operating system. The list of authors includes yours truly alongside famous people like David Pogue, Ed Bott, Andy Rathbone or Woody Leonhard. Learn what we all had to say about Windows 8 and don’t hesitate add to the conversation by sharing your view.

About 10 days ago we launched our 7 Tutorials app for Windows 8 and, in order to celebrate this moment, we decided to organize a giveaway for our subscribers. Now it is time to announce the winner of the prize. Read this article to learn if you are the lucky winner.

We would like to celebrate the release of our 7 Tutorials app for Windows 8. We are very happy with this launch and we would like to reward our readers for sticking with us, reading our tutorials, buying our books and spreading the word about 7 Tutorials. If you would like to win one Office 365 Home Premium subscription, valid for one year, read this article to learn what you have to do.

Today is a special day for us. We are launching the 7 Tutorials app for Windows 8 - an easy way to keep up to date with our articles and interact with our website. What is even more special is that its developer is the youngest or at least one of the youngest developers to have an app in the Windows Store. His name is Julian Atănăsoae and he is only 17 years old. He is from Suceava, Romania and he is passionate about web and software development. If you would like to know more about him and our app, don’t hesitate to read this article.

On the 29th of January, 2013, Microsoft has launched the new Office. In the press, it was referred to as Office 2013 or Office 365, or both. Confusing it isn’t it? To help our readers, we decided that it would be best share some useful information about this product launch. We will share the differences between Office editions, the most interesting new features, the pricing and distribution methods used by Microsoft, where to buy the new Office and how much you will have to pay for it.

Wow! The first month of the year is almost over. It went by so fast. I’m sure you’ll agree with me when I say that it was very eventful, at least when considering the tech world and its evolution. There was lots of interesting news, many good tutorials published, lots of activity overall. As a result we have a rich collection of reading recommendations. You should take some time and read as many as possible. You’ll find them both interesting and useful.

The last moments of 2012 are upon us. Therefore, it is time to review the most interesting news, tips and tutorials that were published in the last month of the year. Also, we would like to recap the most popular articles we published in 2012. We have quite a few recommendations that are worth reading.

Today is the last day of November and the birthday of our editor Marte Brengle. We would like to wish her "Happy Birthday!" and share with all our readers some awesome articles, tutorials and news for you to read. We have an awesome mix of recommendations, but not as awesome as Marte is. :)

As promised, we have extracted the winners in our "Spot Mistakes and Win Kaspersky Internet Security 2013" competition. With the help of this competition we identified 55 mistakes and problems, most of which we have fixed already. Some of them will be fixed in the future, in new releases of our redesign. For now, let’s find out who won of the five available licenses.

This week we launched the beta of our site redesign, a new logo and visual identity. Even if there is still a long way to go to the final version, we would like to celebrate this event, engage our readers into finalizing the redesign and making it awesome and bug free. To give you an incentive and make sure you engage with us as much as possible, we found a great company to sponsor us with some cool prizes. We partnered with the awesome folks from Kaspersky to bring you this giveaway - 5 one year licenses of Kaspersky Internet Security 2013.

NOTE: Today is your last chance to enter this competition.