Windows 10 will be the last version of Microsoft's personal computer operating system.

Microsoft development executive Jerry Nixon told technology professionals attending the tech giant's Ignite conference in Chicago, USA, that Windows 10 would be the last version of the software.

Personal computers slow down, almost grind to a halt, when their hard disk drives are nearly full. If that's happened to your machine, and there's less than 10 per cent of its hard disk drive space free, it could be time to check for duplicate files and delete them.

The first smart phones to carry the Microsoft branding instead of the Nokia logo are to be launched in New Zealand over the coming days.

The Microsoft Lumia 640 and Lumia 435 were recently announced at the Mobile World Congress - phones that come preinstalled with the Microsoft Office suite so that can create and edit Excel, OneNote and Word files on the go and then open them on your personal computer.

If you’re looking for a tablet computer with more functionality than Apple’s iPad range Microsoft may have just the thing for you.

The latest edition to Microsoft’s Surface family of tablet computers is the Surface 3 which will become available in New Zealand in May.

New Zealanders wanting to get their hands on a new Apple Watch will have to head to one of nine overseas countries if they want to get their hands on the new timepiece on release.

Apple has announced that the Apple Watch will be released in nine countries on April 24, but New Zealand is not among them. Instead buyers in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, the UK and the US will all get a chance to buy the latest Apple gear.

It's that time of year when the world's hardware manufacturers start pulling new, award winning, devices out of the hat.

Samsung has done it again with the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge smart phones, Android operating system based smart phones designed to eclipse the popularity of the Galaxy S5 and the four other models to come before it.