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• Article | 7/03/2012 Windows 8 Metro UI: 7 things you may just hate

  As everybody knows, the most striking thing about Windows 8 is its Metro interface - those brightly colored tiles that serve as both shortcuts to prog...
• Article | 2/03/2012 What Windows 8 means for tablets

  Amid the introduction of so many tablets recently, one thing has been clear: There's room for a viable competitor to Apple. Android tablets are still ...
• Article | 14/01/2011 Clean up Windows and your hard drive

  If you have a PC, chances are it runs too slowly for your tastes. Over time, your computer slows down due to all the virtual junk that accumulates in ...
• Article | 14/01/2011 Windows on verge of dropping below 90% market share

  Windows is on the verge of dropping below 90% market share, with smartphones and tablets posing an increasingly serious threat to Microsoft's dominanc...
• Article | 12/01/2011 Patch Tuesday defined by the flaws that aren't fixed

  Microsoft is easing in to 2011 with a light Patch Tuesday for January. There are only two security bulletins this month, and only one of those two is ...
• Article | 12/01/2011 ARM CEO: PC market not our target

  Chip design firm ARM grabbed the spotlight at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week when Microsoft announced that its new Windows OS wo...
• Article | 5/01/2011 Asus unveils three tablets and a slate

  At CES 2011 today, Asus announced three new Android tablets and a Windows 7 based slate PC. The tablets, all Android-based, go by the moniker "Eee Pad...
• Article | 11/11/2010 Call of Duty Black Ops gets slammed across the web by gamers

  For all the launch fanfare, it sounds like Call of Duty Black Ops may be suffering from Fallout New Vegas syndrome. Scan the PC version's official for...
• Article | 17/09/2010 First look: Internet Explorer 9 beta makes waves

  One of the best ways to see what's changed with the ninth and newest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer is to tune into beautyoftheweb.com and ...
• Article | 3/08/2010 Is Linux really harder to use?

  Not surprisingly, the misperception that Linux is harder to use than other operating systems is also one that competing vendors routinely use to scare...
• Article | 31/07/2010 Microsoft, get back to work!

  Steve Ballmer assured analysts and the world that Microsoft is hard at work developing a Windows 7-based tablet to compete with devices like the Apple...
• Article | 21/07/2010 Asus tablet: Hello Android, bye Windows?

  Beyond Apple's iPad, the tablet computer market is a murky place inhabited largely by vaporware.
• Article | 20/07/2010 Can Windows Phone 7 save Microsoft's mobile bacon?

  Windows Phone 7 is inching closer to market. Microsoft has sent the operating system for its brand of mobile phones to the labs of carriers for testin...
• Article | 20/07/2010 Windows Phone 7 technical preview: Hot and not

  Microsoft is so desperate to prove Windows Phone 7's worth in the fiercely competitive smartphone market the company's already giving technical previe...
• Article | 15/07/2010 Windows Phone 7 offers superior business smartphone

  Microsoft used its annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Washington, DC this week to reveal more details about the impending Windows Phone 7 sm...