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Article | 18/04/2008 Study: LimeWire still top P2P software; uTorrent #2

LimeWire, a grizzled veteran of the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing scene, remains the most popular software for exchanging music, video and software ...

Article | 7/04/2008 Will Microsoft deliver Windows 7 next year?

Microsoft has dropped two strong hints in the past two days that the next version of its Windows operating system will arrive in 2009, shaving up to a...

Article | 4/04/2008 Microsoft to keep XP alive until 2010 but only for Eee PCs

Microsoft Thursday confirmed swirling rumors by announcing that it is extending the availability of Windows XP Home Edition until mid-2010 for a fast-...

Article | 20/03/2008 Analysts disagree whether Apple can refuse Flash for iPhone

Now that Adobe Systems is promising to bring Flash to the iPhone, one analyst is predicting that customer pressure will force Apple to agree to suppor...

Article | 4/03/2008 Microsoft offers $100K to testers of Office Live Workspace

To try to spur interest in its upcoming Office Live Workspace service, Microsoft plans to announce this week that it is running a sweepstakes in the U...

Article | 5/03/2008 Nokia smartphones to turn on Microsoft's Silverlight

Microsoft said this week that it will deliver a version of its Silverlight media player for Nokia's market-leading S60 platform for smartphones by the...

Article | 5/03/2008 Microsoft to make IE8 standards compliant by default

In an about-face it credited to a renewed company-wide emphasis on interoperability, Microsoft said it will make its upcoming Internet Explorer 8 (IE8...

Article | 4/03/2008 Microsoft targets Google, Yahoo with Web-hosted SMB wares

Microsoft announced the trial availability of Web-hosted versions of its popular Exchange and SharePoint collaboration software. The move appears to b...

Article | 18/02/2008 Microsoft puts older Office file formats in public domain

Microsoft said it has made technical information about all of its Office binary file formats openly available to outside software developers, while pr...

Article | 18/02/2008 Bad news for banner ads = good news for 'featuretisements'?

On the surface, Web advertising seems healthy. Revenue in the US last year was up 27 per cent to US$25.5 billion, according to IDC.

Article | 13/02/2008 Mozilla offering limited live chat support for Firefox

Mozilla has been quietly offering live Web support for the Firefox Web browser since the beginning of the year. It is one of the open-source group's e...

Article | 7/02/2008 Microsoft Visio, meet Web 2.0

Microsoft's Visio, best known as software for making static flow charts, is evolving into a tool for creating 'live' data-fed diagrams akin to Web 2.0...

Article | 6/02/2008 Driver problems still haunting Vista

When Steve Sinchak's new Intel network card became "really slow" after upgrading his Windows Vista PC with a pre-release version of Service Pack 1, he...

Article | 5/02/2008 The Microsoft-Yahoo deal: How does it compare?

Even by the bloated standards of high-tech mergers and acquisitions, Microsoft's proposed purchase of Yahoo appears to be the largest ever among techn...

Article | 28/01/2008 Microsoft delays SQL Server 2008 RTM to Q3

SQL Server 2008 won't be sticking to its release schedule after all.