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Windows 7’s strong uptake rate continues to hold steady even as the operating system has entered into its second year on the market. Released commercially on October 22nd, 2009, Windows 7 now accounts for 20.87% in global usage share according to statistics made available at the start of this year by Internet ... |
3 January 2011
07:49 GMT |
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Microsoft's next operating system, Windows 8, will be great for games and relaunch PC gaming as a whole, according to a new report coming from an inside source.
Versions of the Windows Operating System are powering most of the computers out there, but Microsoft hasn't really backed up the platform throug... |
23 December 2010
04:45 GMT |
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Windows XP continues to be the dominant platform on the operating system market, but its user base is slipping away at a steady pace. Windows Vista was never made for greatness, and its share of the OS market has also been shrinking slowly but surely, not that anybody is paying attention, or would shed a tear for th... |
1 December 2010
10:42 GMT |
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Microsoft is providing users with a fix designed to help them deal with problems related to icons changing randomly on their computer. According to the Redmond company, this issue can affect Windows 7, but also older releases of Windows, such as Windows Vista and Windows XP. The software giant explained that the pr... |
15 November 2010
07:50 GMT |
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For people who are more reserved when it comes to passing from Windows XP to Windows 7, here is a little something that might help: Microsoft P2V Migration for Software Assurance insures the automatic delivery of an updated and personalized Windows 7 OS, while backing up and converting the Windows XP or newer desktop... |
8 November 2010
10:30 GMT |
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Don’t get me wrong, Windows XP is a real survivor, now at over 9 years on the market, and still the dominant operating system by far, with more than three times the usage share of the runner up, which is Windows 7. And yet Windows XP is the past, Windows 7 the future. It’s just a matter of time. XP has a... |
4 November 2010
13:20 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering no less than five free copies of Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista SP1 via the Download Center. As I was telling you just a few days ago, the Redmond company was gearing up to release a number of free downloads of Windows XP and Windows Vista, as a part of what has been come a traditi... |
15 October 2010
12:29 GMT |
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Not only are free downloads of Windows XP and Windows Vista from Microsoft not going anywhere, but the company is currently cooking new releases which will be available soon. The software giant has made somewhat of a tradition from offering free virtualized copies of XP and Vista to developers building websites requ... |
13 October 2010
11:25 GMT |
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Microsoft has been constantly boosting the security capabilities of its Windows clients, and the company has the numbers to prove it. In the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 9 (for the first half of 2010) released at RSA Europe, the Redmond company points out that users running Windows 7 are less suscep... |
13 October 2010
10:50 GMT |
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There is now less than a month until Windows 7’s one year anniversary since launch, and the latest iteration of the Windows client shows no signs that its growth is slowing down. Fact is, that quite to the contrary, Windows 7 continues to rip apart its predecessors, Windows Vista and Windows XP. According to s... |
4 October 2010
06:58 GMT |
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After years when Windows XP remained the most popular choice for a PC operating system, it seems that the OS is finally nearing the end of its life, with even Dell now revealing that it will stop offering it as an option on its computers, the deadline being October 22.As Microsoft is preparing to phase out developme... |
9 September 2010
02:44 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to be offering the latest iteration of Windows at half price to customers still running Windows Vista’s predecessor. At the same time, the same special deal is available to Office customers still leveraging Office 2007’s precursors but that are now looking to upgrade to Office 2010. A... |
11 August 2010
10:41 GMT |
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While being no match for Windows XP, still, Windows 7 did manage to swallow its predecessor over the past month, in terms of market share. Windows Vista is no longer the second most used operating system worldwide as of the end of July 2010. According to statistics released by Net Applications, Windows 7 is now runne... |
2 August 2010
06:53 GMT |
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Although it’s going to be around well into the next decade, and will benefit from Extended support until 2014, Windows XP is almost out, with OEMs having just another three months to offer it preinstalled on new machines. Until October 22nd, 2010, original equipment manufacturers will still be able to sell netb... |
30 July 2010
08:39 GMT |
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Windows 7 is now officially the second most popular operating system worldwide, after Windows XP. On July 22nd, 2010, the Redmond company announced record revenue for the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2010, no less than $16.04 billion, and credited the amount to the success of Windows 7. According to the software gian... |
23 July 2010
09:30 GMT |
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The downgrading process in relation to Windows operating systems has become immensely popular following the launch of Windows Vista, when users expressing their dislike of the new platform were switching back to Windows XP. However, Microsoft was already offering downgrade rights for Windows, the company had been for... |
21 July 2010
12:07 GMT |
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Just as it was the case for Windows Vista, Windows 7’s main rival is not Linux, Mac OS X or any competitor operating system, but the Windows XP platform. Because of Microsoft’s support lifecycle for its products, Windows OSes often overlap. In this context, Microsoft needs to labor continuously to convinc... |
16 July 2010
08:41 GMT |
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Attacks against a Critical vulnerability affecting Windows XP are on the increase, Microsoft revealed, urging customers to take the necessary measures in order to protect themselves as soon as possible. The Redmond company has already released a patch for the Help and Support Center flaw, which is designed to resolve... |
15 July 2010
07:12 GMT |
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The July 2010 Security Bulletins are here, patching vulnerabilities in various versions of Windows and Office. No less than four patch packages were released this month by Microsoft, designed to plug a total of five vulnerabilities. At the bottom of this article you will be able to find a list with all the security b... |
14 July 2010
08:37 GMT |
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While Microsoft starts pushing some Windows releases forward, it is pulling the plug on others. Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) has expired today July 13th, 2010, having reached what Microsoft calls end-of support. As the Redmond company announced, XP SP2 is not the only Windows release for which support will no long... |
13 July 2010
03:27 GMT |
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If you haven’t already, you now only have just three days to move from Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) to either SP3 or Windows 7. Next week, on July 13, both XP SP2 and Windows 2000 will reach what Microsoft calls End of Support. The Redmond company is gearing up to cut the lifeline that keeps XP copies with t... |
10 July 2010
06:56 GMT |
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Almost 1 in 2 customers running the latest iteration of the Windows client are using systems with 64-bit (x64) architectures and 64-bit (x64) copies of Windows 7. According to statistics provided by the Redmond company, no less than 46% of all Windows 7 PCs worldwide are equipped with a 64-bit edition of the operatin... |
9 July 2010
04:04 GMT |
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Time has almost run out for one flavor of Windows XP, which is scheduled to die next week. As previously announced, Microsoft will cut the lifeline for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and all Windows 2000 releases on July 13th, 2010. Customers that are still running the Windows operating system versions mentioned abo... |
5 July 2010
03:02 GMT |
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After just nine months since it was released to the general public, Windows 7 will overtake its predecessor in terms of market share. This despite the fact that Windows Vista has been available for purchase for more than three years now. Taking into consideration the growth rate of the latest Windows client, Vista&rs... |
1 July 2010
11:23 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to offer free copies of its Windows operating systems, a “tradition” that the company started back in 2006 after the release of Internet Explorer 7. The software giant is attempting to compensate for the shortcomings of the Windows design in older releases of its platforms, in which a ... |
25 June 2010
12:52 GMT |
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The final version of Windows PowerShell 2.0, which is included by default in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, is now being served to customers running older versions of the Windows client and server operating systems through Windows Update. In this regard, Microsoft is now offering two components of the Windows ... |
23 June 2010
07:40 GMT |
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July 13, 2010 will bring with it the death of Windows XP Service Pack 2, a landmark upgrade in the history of Windows, of a magnitude that will probably never be reached again by any service pack. Essentially, when Microsoft released Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) on April 21, 2008, it also signed the death sentence... |
17 June 2010
11:18 GMT |
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There’s now less than a month until the second service pack for Windows XP expires completely. Support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) is set to expire come next month in accordance with Microsoft’s Service Pack Support policy. According to the Redmond company, “Support ends 24 months after the ... |
14 June 2010
05:54 GMT |
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Microsoft is slowly phasing Windows XP out as all the focus is now on Windows 7. In just a little over four months, customers will no longer be able to buy new computers preinstalled to XP SP3. Fact is that after the launch of Windows 7 the number of XP machines dropped dramatically, and today, although some computer... |
11 June 2010
11:35 GMT |
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A Critical zero-day vulnerability discovered and made public by a Google employee will be patched as soon as possible, Microsoft has revealed, indicating that it has already started working on a security update. The flaw, which apparently resides in the Windows Help and Support Center function of both Windows XP and ... |
11 June 2010
10:42 GMT |
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Microsoft has already started building Windows 7’s successor, a release referred to as Windows 8, but the company is keeping all details under a tightly closed lid. This is, of course, of no surprise, especially considering that the company is mum on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1), which, by all accounts, is mu... |
3 June 2010
12:31 GMT |
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It won’t be long until Windows 7 overtakes Windows Vista in terms of market share. In fact, the latest iteration of the Windows client is now breathing down its predecessor’s neck, while convincing more and more Windows users to jump ship. In fact, if Windows 7 continues to perform the way it has so far, ... |
1 June 2010
09:12 GMT |
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Windows 7 is almost immune to a piece of malware that has proven a real nightmare to users running older versions of the Windows client. Windows XP SP3 customers particularly have been hit extremely hard by Alureon, a rootkit that failed to play nice with a Windows kernel update and ended up rendering unbootable infe... |
24 May 2010
10:15 GMT |
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With over 100 million copies already sold worldwide, Windows 7 continues to get nothing but love from consumers. In fact, forecasts indicate that the latest iteration of the Windows client will hit the 300-million-sold-licenses milestone by the end of 2010. In this context, it should be no surprise that the impact of... |
19 May 2010
04:01 GMT |
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There are now less than two months left until Microsoft will officially pull the plug on Windows XP Service Pack 2. Come July 13th, 2010, the second service pack for XP will reach the end of support, a point after which Microsoft will no longer offer any updates for the operating system version, or any sort of assist... |
14 May 2010
11:23 GMT |
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Microsoft is making no secret of the fact that the latest release of Windows Live will be tailored to Windows 7 and Windows Vista, while not supporting Windows XP at all. The Redmond company’s position is of course that the operating system released back in 2001 is obsolete, despite the Service Pack 2 and Servi... |
11 May 2010
11:24 GMT |
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The latest iteration of the Windows client has long passed the 100-million-sold-license milestone, and the fastest selling operating system in history doesn’t show any signs of stopping. Furthermore, Windows 7’s main victim, in terms of OS market share, is the nearly-decade-old Windows XP. Statistics prov... |
3 May 2010
09:34 GMT |
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Attackers targeting vulnerabilities in Microsoft software have a definite preference for a decade-old operating system released in 2001. Windows XP, the platform that continues to own the lion’s share of the operating-system market, attracts twice as many attacks targeting Microsoft vulnerabilities, compared wi... |
27 April 2010
11:11 GMT |
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Customers running Windows XP Service Pack 3 and McAfee security solutions in concert have been left scrambling to restore their computers after an issue involving a specific Virus Definition (DAT) file version caused a false positive detection of the w32/wecorl.a virus. The problems are generated by v.5958 of the McA... |
22 April 2010
09:54 GMT |
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Microsoft is upping the ante when it comes down to desktop optimization for Windows clients. The public Beta program for Windows Intune is now live, the first step in the company’s vision to introduce new offerings designed to take desktop management into the Cloud. Designed to streamline the administration of ... |
20 April 2010
03:34 GMT |
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Some of you might not remember this, but Intel was an illustrative example of corporations that turned their back on Windows Vista in 2007, as opposite to AMD, which was quick to embrace Windows XP’s successor. Not the same can be said when it comes down to the latest iteration of the Windows client. Intel has ... |
7 April 2010
12:05 GMT |
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At the end of March 2010, there were twice as many computers running Windows 7 as machines with Mac OS X installed, although the latest iteration of the Windows client was released to the market just five months ago. According to statistics from Net Applications, Windows 7 currently accounts for no less than 10.23% o... |
1 April 2010
09:04 GMT |
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On March 30, 2010, Microsoft revealed that free Windows 7 downloads would be kept alive until the end of 2010. But when it comes down to free Windows clients available as free downloads from the Redmond company itself, there’s even more good news for customers. The Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VP... |
31 March 2010
11:03 GMT |
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Windows 7’s modest system requirements in comparison with Windows Vista’s have made it possible for customers to upgrade to the latest iteration of the Windows client, without having to also upgrade their hardware. While Vista was somewhat of a resource hog, Windows 7 is designed to run on the same comput... |
30 March 2010
12:05 GMT |
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At more than a year since the initial introduction of Canvas for OneNote, Microsoft has refreshed the project in order to accommodate users that leverage the latest iteration of OneNote. In this regard, Office Labs has kicked up a notch Canvas for OneNote in order to tailor it to OneNote 2010 in addition to OneNote 2... |
26 March 2010
09:07 GMT |
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Evolve or die is a mantra that can be easily applied to the world of technology. Products that fail to keep up with the overall evolution of the market will soon be discarded and replaced, as they will begin to feel like a fish out of water. The tone for the vast majority of offerings is of course given by Moore'... |
11 March 2010
07:01 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, Windows XP continues to get a consistent amount of love from its very loyal users, after all, the OS continues to run on over 65.49% of computers worldwide. Citing findings from Market research firm Techaisle, Microsoft is warning that ignoring Windows 7 and failing to upgrade computers while choosing to... |
10 March 2010
08:22 GMT |
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Time is near for older editions of Windows that have run their course to bow out and leave the stage to the latest versions of the platform, Windows 7. It is the natural evolution course for all Microsoft software products, outlined in detail on in the company’s Support Lifecycle Policy. Next to go will be the ... |
27 February 2010
06:54 GMT |
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Avalanche Studios, as the developer, and Square Enix, as the publisher through its Eidos subsidiary, have announced that Just Cause 2, the action title they plan to launch on March 23, will need DirectX 10 to run, which means that those players who are still using Microsoft Windows XP will not be able to run it, as t... |
25 February 2010
04:20 GMT |
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Microsoft was quick, albeit more than entitled to applaud Windows 7 for being the fastest selling operating system in history, but fact is that the latest Windows client is enjoying nothing short of stellar adoption. At least in some markets; case in point: Redmond, the software giant’s home. Redmondians must ... |
2 February 2010
03:17 GMT |
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