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Article | 3/08/2010 Microsoft mimics move on Windows, dumps upgrades for Mac Office
Microsoft today said that it will not sell upgrades for the upcoming Office for Mac 2011, mimicking the move it made earlier this year when it ditched...
Article | 2/08/2010 Windows 7 wins, Mac OS X loses July battle for share
Microsoft's Windows 7 reached a major milestone in July, while Apple's Mac OS X lost ground for the fourth straight month, a Web analytics firm said S...
Article | 3/08/2010 New Linux kernel borrows Google packet speeding tech
Harnessing a pair of protocols developed by Google, the newly released version of Linux kernel should be able to speed network traffic throughput cons...
Article | 31/07/2010 Microsoft sets emergency Windows patch for Monday
Microsoft today said it will issue an emergency patch for the critical Windows shortcut bug on Monday, August 2.
Article | 1/08/2010 Windows 7 tablets: Just say no, Microsoft
Microsoft is busy at work on a new tablet computer design, a product that may arrive from one or more of its hardware partners in "not a heck of a lon...
Article | 29/07/2010 Dell, HP to resell Oracle's operating systems
Oracle said Thursday that rival hardware vendors Dell and Hewlett-Packard intend to certify and resell its Solaris and Enterprise Linux operating syst...
Article | 30/07/2010 Microsoft slates IE9 beta for September
MIcrosoft will ship a beta of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) in September, a company executive said today.
Article | 21/07/2010 Canonical bundles Linux, IBM database for the cloud
Canonical is offering enterprises a chance to try cloud computing via a virtual appliance that bundles Ubuntu Linux with the IBM DB2 Express-C databas...
Article | 28/07/2010 AT&T to be 'premier' Windows Phone 7 vendor
Say all you want about whether Windows Phone 7 (WP7) will succeed, but AT&T continues to back the platform wholeheartedly after endorsing it -- an...
Article | 24/07/2010 Tech worker testifies of 'blue screen of death' on oil rig's computer
A computer that monitored drilling operations on the Deepwater Horizon had been freezing with a "blue screen of death" prior to the explosion that san...
Article | 24/07/2010 Microsoft: Solid Today, Shaky Tomorrow
Microsoft's quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday painted a rosy picture of a healthy and vibrant tech company. Revenue from Windows sales jump...
Article | 24/07/2010 Microsoft sells 10 Windows 7 licenses per second
Microsoft sold nearly 10 copies of Windows 7 every second over the last month, according to numbers the company released Thursday.
Article | 23/07/2010 Drop 'responsible' from bug disclosures, Microsoft urges
Microsoft today pitched its own proposal for how software makers react to bugs reported by researchers, calling for a name change to describe the proc...
Article | 23/07/2010 5 makers for Windows Phone 7 now official
Microsoft has officially divulged names of at least five manufacturers for its coming Windows Phone 7 devices, with Asus recently added to a list of f...
Article | 23/07/2010 Dell revamps hardware testing in wake of malware issue
A sequence of errors led to Dell's delivery of motherboards with malware and the company is in the process of overhauling its testing process to resol...