Desktop Pirate is about as simple as it gets. Launch it, click the show or hide buttons, and watch your desktop icons disappear (or reappear). Note that you can do the same thing with an Automator ...

We recently told you about Guise Bule, a software executive who is daring Microsoft to sue him by launching a virtual desktop service that clearly violates Microsoft's Windows licensing rules ...

Software companies lost £1.49bn to piracy in the UK last year - and that's before the impact of the economic downturn. More than a quarter of the desktop software installed in the UK last year ...

Q: My desktop settings will not stay set. I go into Control Panel and choose the background that I want and afterward the background changes to just plain black. Again and again I change the ...

A virtual desktop executive protesting Microsoft's licensing enforcement is now accepting beta signups for a virtual desktop service that clearly breaks Windows licensing rules. Read the whole story ...