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Article | 5/11/2008 Firefox cracks 20 percent market share in October, then slips

Mozilla's Firefox climbed above 20 percent market share for two weeks last month, but ended October just under the milestone, a Web metrics company sa...

Article | 4/11/2008 Microsoft: Data shows Vista more secure than XP

Microsoft's latest security report shows that the number of new vulnerabilities found in its software was lower in first half of the year than the las...

Article | 4/11/2008 Windows 7 leaks to Web, pirates downloading

Leaked copies of Windows 7 hit the Internet only hours after Microsoft handed out a preview build to developers last week, according to searches at se...

Article | 4/11/2008 ActiveX bugs pose threat to Vista, Microsoft reports

Although computers running Windows Vista are significantly less likely to be infected with attack code than machines running Windows XP, the newer ope...

Article | 3/11/2008 Acer netbook shipments to beat Asus's Eee PC

Acer, the world's third-largest PC vendor, said shipments of its Aspire One netbook could reach 6 million units this year, which would edge out Asuste...

Article | 31/10/2008 Ozzie points to slimmer future for Windows client

Microsoft is putting the Windows client OS on a diet as a way to bring the PC OS into the age of cloud computing.

Article | 31/10/2008 Intel joins Taiwan on Linux OS for netbooks

Intel and the Taiwan government plan to open a development center to further the Linux-based Moblin OS for devices such as netbooks and mobile Interne...

Article | 30/10/2008 For Windows 7, Microsoft tries addition by subtraction

For most of Microsoft's history, it designed software the same way Detroit built cars during its mid-century heyday. Adding features was like building...

Article | 30/10/2008 Windows 7 UAC changes just 'lipstick,' argues vendor

Microsoft's plans to change a controversial security feature in Windows 7 are only cosmetic, nothing more than "lipstick on UAC," a developer of enter...

Article | 29/10/2008 Microsoft leaks Windows 7 details

Hours before Microsoft executives trotted out Windows 7 at the company's developer conference, officials leaked some details about the impending alpha...

Article | 29/10/2008 Microsoft slates Windows 7 public beta for early 2009

Microsoft Tuesday said that it would expand testing of Windows 7 to the general public in early 2009.

Article | 29/10/2008 Microsoft vows Windows 7 will fix Vista mistakes

Microsoft on Tuesday for the first time publicly demonstrated Windows 7, the next major release of its OS for PCs that Microsoft insists will reflect ...

Article | 27/10/2008 Microsoft to release Vista SP2 private beta on Wednesday

Microsoft will distribute the second service pack for Windows Vista to a small group of beta testers on Wednesday, the company said Friday.

Article | 27/10/2008 Forecast has Office, Vista going in opposite directions

Microsoft's quarterly call with Wall Street on Thursday told the tale of two software franchises and their diverging financial fortunes.

Article | 23/10/2008 Clues hint Windows 7 debut in 2009

Microsoft may release Windows 7 as early as next November, bloggers speculated Wednesday, pointing to postings on the company's own Web site and comme...

Article | 22/10/2008 Google patches Chrome 'carpet bomb' bug

Google has patched its Chrome browser to block a months-old bug that can be used to trick people into downloading and launching malicious code.

Article | 22/10/2008 Pirates prefer Windows XP over Vista, says Microsoft

Software counterfeiters pass on Windows Vista and instead prefer to pirate Windows XP, a Microsoft attorney said Tuesday, outlining a practice that tr...

Article | 20/10/2008 Ballmer: Windows 7 is Vista, just 'a lot better'

Windows 7 will be like Windows Vista, but more so, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer said today as he defended the first two years of Vista and claime...

Article | 17/10/2008 Mozilla offers alpha version of mobile browser for N810

Mozilla plans to release on Thursday an alpha version of its mobile browser today for Nokia's Internet tablets.

Article | 17/10/2008 Microsoft mulling 'Instant On' feature for Windows

Microsoft is considering giving its Windows client OS the capability to be turned on very rapidly by allowing users only limited access to the OS, a c...