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Article | 2/12/2008 Windows market share dives below 90 percent for first time

Microsoft's Windows OS last month took its biggest market share dive in the last two years, an Internet measurement company reported Monday, erasing g...

Article | 2/12/2008 Netbooks: small, cheap -- and fast?

Linux distributor Good OS and BIOS vendor Phoenix Technologies each have plans to make netbooks speedier devices, the vendors said at the Netbook Worl...

Article | 2/12/2008 IE share slips under 70 percent, Firefox surges past 20 percent

The market share of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) dropped under the 70 percent mark last month for the first time since Web metrics vendor Net Ap...

Article | 1/12/2008 Vista SP2 due next April, says report

Microsoft will deliver Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) to manufacturing in April 2009, two months after it issues a final test version to users, ac...

Article | 28/11/2008 Asustek to unveil US$200 Eee PC netbook next year

Asustek Computer plans to unveil a new Eee PC netbook that costs just US$200 in the first quarter of next year, a company representative said Thursday...

Article | 27/11/2008 Used PCs sought for Windows XP

Some used PCs are being purchased not for the hardware but because people want to get their hands on a copy of Windows XP, according to industry analy...

Article | 26/11/2008 Mozilla eyes extra beta for Firefox 3.1

Mozilla will probably add a third beta to the development schedule for Firefox 3.1 to get a better handle on remaining bugs and give several new featu...

Article | 25/11/2008 Apple will launch netbook competitor in '09, says analyst

Apple will roll out a lower-priced and lighter-weight laptop in the first half of 2009 to compete in the growing "netbook" category, an analyst said t...

Article | 21/11/2008 Researchers find vulnerability in Windows Vista

An Austrian security vendor has found a vulnerability in Windows Vista that it says could possibly allow an attacker to run unauthorized code on a PC.

Article | 19/11/2008 Microsoft e-mails detail internal fight on 'Vista Capable'

Numerous Microsoft employees, including some top executives, urged their company to hold the line on the graphics requirements for the "Vista Capable"...

Article | 17/11/2008 Microsoft e-mails show 'Vista Capable' changes helped Intel

Pressured by Intel, Microsoft relaxed the rules for a crucial Windows Vista marketing program -- a move that let the chip maker sell older graphics ch...

Article | 17/11/2008 Google patches Chrome file-stealing bug

Google has patched Chrome to prevent attackers from stealing files from PCs running the open-source browser.

Article | 14/11/2008 Mozilla fixes 11 new flaws in Firefox, six critical

Mozilla on Wednesday patched 11 vulnerabilities in Firefox 3.0 -- and 12 bugs in the older Firefox 2.0 -- that could be used to compromise computers a...

Article | 14/11/2008 AMD jumps into the netbook fray

Advanced Micro Devices is jumping into the mini-notebook space, delivering processors starting in 2009 for small laptops that can run basic applicatio...

Article | 11/11/2008 Colombia signs up for OLPC laptops with Windows

Colombia will become the second country to use the One Laptop Per Child Project's (OLPC) XO laptops running Microsoft Windows XP in schools after sign...

Article | 10/11/2008 MS touts Windows 7 integration with Windows Server

Microsoft next week will distribute a pre-beta of Windows Server 2008 R2 to a select group of testers and highlight the software's virtualization capa...

Article | 10/11/2008 How Windows 7 will, and won't, work better with SSDs

The first generation of solid-state drives (SSDs) introduced in PCs last year failed to live up to the hype.

Article | 10/11/2008 Microsoft: Windows 7 will run on SSD netbooks

Netbooks equipped with solid-state drives (SSD) sporting as little as 16GB of storage capacity will be able to comfortably run Windows 7, Microsoft sa...

Article | 7/11/2008 Windows 7 Eee PC demonstrated

Microsoft has demonstrated its Windows 7 operating system (OS) on an Asus Eee PC featuring just 1GB of RAM and a 16GB solid-state drive.

Article | 5/11/2008 Mozilla adds privacy mode to Firefox test build

Developers working on Mozilla's next browser Tuesday added a privacy mode to the still-under-construction Firefox 3.1, a major milestone in the develo...