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Article | 10/10/2008 Microsoft to improve Vista's problematic UAC in Windows 7

Microsoft plans to improve the much-maligned user account control (UAC) feature in the next version of its Windows client OS, acknowledging that the n...

Article | 10/10/2008 Mozilla locks in Firefox 3.1 feature list

Mozilla will use a several-week delay it recently added to the Firefox 3.1 schedule to build a private browsing mode and beef up the browser's address...

Article | 9/10/2008 Mozilla adds geographic tagging to Firefox

Mozilla has released an add-on to Firefox that enables the browser to automatically pinpoint a user's location by communicating with Wi-Fi signals so ...

Article | 8/10/2008 Asus reports virus loaded into Eee Box PCs

Asustek Computer's Japanese arm has alerted owners of its new Eee Box low-cost desktop PC that the machine shipped with a virus.

Article | 7/10/2008 Lawyers want Windows Update used to push lawsuit notices

Lawyers in the "Windows Vista Capable" class-action lawsuit against Microsoft have asked a federal judge to force the company to use its Windows Updat...

Article | 2/10/2008 Mac OS X market share cracks 8 percent

Apple's Mac OS X market share has passed the 8 percent mark for the first time, a research company reported Wednesday.

Article | 2/10/2008 Browser metrics: IE slide continues, Firefox users update

Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) continued to lose market share in September, Google's Chrome stabilized at under 1 percent and more than half of Fi...

Article | 30/09/2008 Mozilla patches Firefox faster than expected

Mozilla beat its own schedule by patching Firefox late Friday to fix a password bug it had inadvertently introduced earlier in the week.

Article | 26/09/2008 After password glitch, Firefox patch due next week

Mozilla developers are rushing out a new release of their Firefox browser to fix a bug that has been preventing some Web surfers from using saved pass...

Article | 25/09/2008 Microsoft confirms pre-beta Windows 7 for PDC attendees

Microsoft Wednesday squelched speculation on when the public would get its hands on Windows 7 code by confirming that attendees at its Professional De...

Article | 24/09/2008 Chrome fades as users return to IE, Firefox

Chrome's share of the browser market is fading as users who abandoned Internet Explorer and Firefox start to return, an Internet measurement company s...

Article | 19/09/2008 Seinfeld ads end as MS to reclaim 'I'm a PC' slur from Apple

The long, oft-baffling "teaser" ads" by Microsoft featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates that kicked off two weeks ago are abruptly ending, the compa...

Article | 18/09/2008 Microsoft posts 21 more versions of IE8

Microsoft yesterday released 21 additional versions of its Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Beta 2, including editions in Czech, Italian, Norwegian, Russian,...

Article | 18/09/2008 Mozilla admits 'giant error' with Firefox EULA move

Bending to criticism from Linux users angry that it added a license agreement to Firefox, open-source developer Mozilla has admitted making a mistake ...

Article | 17/09/2008 Chrome steals share from every rival but Safari

Two weeks after the launch of Chrome, Google's browser has stolen market share from every competitor except Apple's Safari, an Internet measurement co...

Article | 17/09/2008 CodeWeavers offers 'Chrome' browsers for Mac, Linux

Although Google has yet to come up with Mac or Linux editions of its new Chrome browser, CodeWeavers, a company best known for its CrossOver software,...

Article | 16/09/2008 Google bends to privacy critics on Chrome tool

Reacting to criticism that its new Chrome browser was essentially acting as a keylogger, Google last week said it would render data anonymous within 2...

Article | 16/09/2008 Analyst: Microsoft may deliver Windows 7 beta within 8 weeks

Microsoft won't likely miss the chance to showcase Windows 7 in the next two months at a pair of tech conferences, and will give developers code for h...

Article | 16/09/2008 Mozilla reacts to rivals with plans to beef up Firefox 3.1

Mozilla will try to squeeze more into Firefox 3.1, the company's chief engineer said today, in part as a reaction to rival browsers from Microsoft and...

Article | 15/09/2008 MS defends IE 'phone home' feature, clarifies privacy policy

Microsoft today defended the Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) tool that suggests sites based on the URLs typed into its address bar, saying that the browser ...