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Article | 8/01/2009 Ballmer sets loose Windows 7 public beta

The rumors turned out to be true. Microsoft will release a public beta this week of its next desktop operating system, Windows 7, hoping it will addre...

Article | 7/01/2009 Asus unveils netbook with touchscreen that swivels

Asustek Computer on Tuesday unveiled its latest Eee PC netbook, with an 8.9-inch touchscreen that swivels and can even fold down to convert the device...

Article | 7/01/2009 Report: Microsoft to do free Windows 7 upgrades

Microsoft Corp. will offer free or discounted Windows 7 upgrades to users who buy <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=searc...

Article | 7/01/2009 Vista's flaws surface again on eve of Windows 7 beta

Attendees of the International Conference on Cyber Security 2009 in New York Tuesday were reminded of the shortcomings of Windows Vista a day before M...

Article | 7/01/2009 AMD wants to make small laptops cheaper with Yukon

Advanced Micro Devices hopes to undercut prices of expensive ultraportable laptops with mobile chips it is expected to introduce this week.

Article | 7/01/2009 HP says netbook can run for up to 8 hours between charges

Hewlett-Packard today announced a netbook PC that it said will be able to run for up to a full business day on a single battery charge.

Article | 5/01/2009 Freescale chases $199 netbook with new processor

Freescale on Monday is expected to announce a new processor for netbooks that may challenge chip maker Intel on price in the low-cost computing space.

Article | 6/01/2009 New 'Wind' netbook pairs SSD with hard disk

MSI, the makers of the much vaunted U100 'Wind' netbook, have announced a new version of the machine featuring both an SSD drive and a conventional ha...

Article | 5/01/2009 IE lost share to Firefox, Safari and Chrome in December

Web sites saw visitors deserting Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser in favor of Apple's Safari, Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome in December, ...

Article | 5/01/2009 Windows market share dives again as Mac nears 10 percent

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 l...

Article | 31/12/2008 Gmail notice touts Chrome and Firefox, dismisses IE

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.

Article | 31/12/2008 Downloads of pirated Windows 7 beta candidate soar

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 pi...

Article | 29/12/2008 Microsoft may release Windows 7 beta at show

Attendees at next month's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) could get the first public look at Windows 7, the next version of Microsoft's client OS.

Article | 29/12/2008 Windows 7 beta leaks to Internet

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...

Article | 24/12/2008 IE's European share falls under 60%, Firefox's growth stalls

Fewer than 60% of European Web users run Microsoft's Internet Explorer, a French-based metrics company reported yesterday, while more than 31% have sw...

Article | 24/12/2008 Notebook PCs outsell desktops, first time ever

The third quarter of 2008 marked a first for the computer industry. According to iSuppli, more notebook PCs were sold globally than desktop PCs -- jus...

Article | 22/12/2008 Mozilla re-issues Firefox 2 update, includes missing patch

Mozilla issued a final update to Firefox 2.0, making good on a promise earlier last week when it forgot to include a patch in the Windows version of t...

Article | 19/12/2008 Oops! Mozilla forgets Firefox 2 patch, must re-issue update

A "clerical error" by Mozilla Corp. omitted one of the security patches that was supposed to be included in the Windows version of yesterday's Firefox...

Article | 19/12/2008 Google issues first post-beta Chrome update

Only days after Google dropped the beta tag from its Chrome browser, the company issued an update that fixes more than 30 bugs.

Article | 18/12/2008 Mozilla plugs 13 holes in Firefox, retires older 2.0 browser

Mozilla late Tuesday patched 13 bugs in Firefox, nearly half of them labeled "critical," as it closed support for the two-year-old Firefox 2.0 by rele...