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Article | 21/07/2009 Microsoft/Linux milestones

Microsoft Monday made an historic move by submitting device drivers to the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license. Microsoft has had a checkered past with...

Article | 21/07/2009 Seven reasons Microsoft's profits are tanking

Microsoft's profits are seriously down, and you don't have to be Warren Buffet to figure out why.

Article | 17/07/2009 Microsoft sacrifices Office to save Windows

Microsoft recently announced that its next Office suite will have a free online counterpart. It also just released Silverlight 3.0, which competes di...

Article | 18/07/2009 Alleged Windows 7 update process spawns criticism

Outrage spread like wildfire across the Internet this week with criticism of Microsoft's alleged new upgrade process for Windows 7. People were concer...

Article | 18/07/2009 Chrome OS may fail even as it changes computing forever

Google says it is working on an operating system designed for netbooks that boots in seconds, is impervious to viruses, and is designed to run Web-bas...

Article | 15/07/2009 Free online productivity apps available now

I'm looking forward to <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/tags/Microsoft+Corporation.html">Microsoft</a>'s <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/168277...

Article | 14/07/2009 Is Your Office Wary of Windows 7?

Windows 7 pre-orders may be burning up the charts, but many users are apparently still reluctant to switch over to Microsoft's newest operating system...

Article | 13/07/2009 Office 2010: Most Innovations are Online

It has taken Microsoft a long time to bring its flagship Office suite to the Web and now it finally has with Office 2010. The software suite comes pac...

Article | 14/07/2009 Microsoft, Google make sure IT has no dull moments

Microsoft is launching Windows 7, Google has fired back with Chrome OS, and today Microsoft is turning up the volume on Office 2010. That's a lot to j...

Article | 14/07/2009 Microsoft Office vs.Google Docs: A Web Apps Showdown

The future may be the cloud, but it also may be Microsoft that ushers us into that realm of possibility and imagination. Today, Redmond unveiled as a...

Article | 14/07/2009 Is Office 2010 Really The Best Microsoft Can Do?

From what's been reported so far, I don't see much to like about Office 2010. The discussion thus far has lacked a single "killer feature" that makes ...

Article | 14/07/2009 Microsoft Office 2010: A Simple FAQ

Microsoft is expanding its horizons with its newly revealed Office 2010 software suite. The updated Office will be available in two separate formats: ...

Article | 14/07/2009 Microsoft's Mundie describes computing shift

In the future, computers will do more work automatically for people, rather than reacting to human input, Microsoft's head of research and strategy sa...

Article | 10/07/2009 Chrome OS could offend the open source community

The announcement a few days ago of Google's new Chrome OS was simultaneously shocking and expected. It's a typically understated and quietly ambitious...

Article | 11/07/2009 Does Google know too much about you?

Do you trust Google? If you use its multitude of online services on a daily basis you might, but is that assumption wise? For some, Google is a wonde...

Article | 10/07/2009 Open-source media player VLC hits the big time

For several years, the free, third-party media player of choice for many video connoisseurs was the open-source VLC media player. It worked on multipl...

Article | 9/07/2009 FAQ: Google Chrome OS

News of Google's Chrome operating system is sending waves though the tech world with some saying the OS signals the beginning of the end for Microsoft...

Article | 9/07/2009 Searching where Google can't

We read a lot about the delivery, and popularity, of SMS services such as market prices, health advice and job alerts in developing countries, informa...

Article | 9/07/2009 Five reasons Google Chrome OS will fail

As smart and popular as Google may be, the success of Chrome OS is not a fait accompli. Sometimes the smartest and most popular kid at school simply f...

Article | 9/07/2009 Five reasons Chrome OS will succeed

There's little doubt in my mind that Google will not fail with Chrome OS.