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Microsoft Tells How It Missed Critical IE Bug 06/01/2009 07:03:00

Microsoft developers overlooked a critical bug in the Internet Explorer browser because of a lack of adequate testing tools and training, a company official acknowledged last month.
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Windows market share dives again as Mac nears 10 percent 05/01/2009 07:48:00

Windows lost nearly a full percentage point of market share for the second month in a row in December, pushing Microsoft's operating system to a new low, an Internet measurement company reported yesterday.
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Downloads of pirated Windows 7 beta candidate soar 31/12/2008 07:31:00

Downloads of a new build of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system have soared in the past two days, with thousands of systems now pulling pirated copies from BitTorrent sites.
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Gmail notice touts Chrome and Firefox, dismisses IE 31/12/2008 08:12:00

Google is pushing users of its Gmail e-mail service to dump Microsoft's Internet Explorer for its own Chrome browser or Mozilla's Firefox.
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Microsoft specs out 'Pay-as-you-go' PC scheme 30/12/2008 11:15:00

Microsoft last week applied for a patent that spells out a "pay-as-you-go" concept where users would be charged for both the software they run and the computing horsepower they use.
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iPod Touch browser share triples 30/12/2008 07:35:00

Apple's iPod Touch over the last four days has almost tripled its share of the browser market compared to the first 24 days of December, according to a Web metrics company.
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Microsoft kicks fake security software off 400,000 PCs 29/12/2008 07:47:00

In the second month of a campaign against fake security software, Microsoft has booted the rogue application "Antivirus 2009" from almost 400,000 PCs, the company recently claimed.
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Windows 7 beta leaks to Internet 29/12/2008 11:21:00

Pirated copies of a Windows 7 build pegged by many as the beta Microsoft will release next month have leaked to the Internet, according to searches at several BitTorrent sites.
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Fake Christmas, holiday greetings spread new malware 29/12/2008 07:49:00

New malware is spreading via Christmas and holiday greetings, security researchers said last week, a tactic reminiscent of those used last season by the notorious Storm Trojan horse.
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iPhone trounces BlackBerry Storm in satisfaction rating 24/12/2008 07:42:00

First reactions from buyers of Research in Motion's newest BlackBerry Storm smart phone have been "lukewarm," and nowhere near the satisfaction ratings of Apple's iPhone, a market research analyst said Tuesday.
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Microsoft warns of critical bug in SQL Server 24/12/2008 01:23:00

Microsoft Monday warned customers that attack code has been released targeting a critical vulnerability in older versions of its widely-used SQL Server database software, and urged users to apply a temporary workaround.