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In a little over a month, customers running IBM zEnterprise environments will be able to start leveraging Windows application, IBM confirmed on November 7, 2011.
The move is nothing more than IBM making good on a promise from earlier this year, with official Windows support in zEnterprise slated for introduction as... |
8 November 2011
03:02 GMT |
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A new TV commercial from Microsoft, dubbed “Homework 2.0,” offers a funny view over how a less than stellar PowerPoint presentation can be taken to the next level. The ad belongs to the Redmond company’s latest series of advertisements, focused on traditional technologies, such as Windows and Office... |
7 November 2011
02:10 GMT |
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No less than 54 Sony VAIO E Series laptops and desktops are up for grabs in the 2011 Windows and Southwest Airlines Holiday Sweepstakes. Microsoft and Southwest Airlines have partnered for the second year in a row, to offer people in the US the chance to get a free holiday photo of them snapped at some 21 airports ... |
2 November 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Between August and September 2011, Windows 7’s usage share growth started accelerating. Whereas the share of the operating system would increase by around one percentage point from one month to the next, it jumped from 30.60% in August to no less than 32.42% at the end of September. And it appears that this w... |
1 November 2011
08:50 GMT |
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Wine is a miraculous software that aims to provide Linux users the “luxury” of running Windows software. There are other ways to run this type of software, like in a virtual machine, but doing so requires a powerful computer and a genuine Windows copy. The work that goes into Wine to make Windows develope... |
31 October 2011
09:30 GMT |
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With its best days behind it, Windows XP will turn 10 in less than a day, tomorrow, October 25, 2011. XP not only managed to survive against all odds for the past decade, but dominated the operating system market like no other platform.Released on October 25, 2001, Windows XP was developed under the codename Whi... |
24 October 2011
10:04 GMT |
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As it does every month, Microsoft packed all of the October 2011 patches for Windows into a single package which it’s offering as a free download.
The October 2011 Security Release ISO Image will require customers to do a little planning as it weights no less than 3 GB, according to information provided by ... |
14 October 2011
12:11 GMT |
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iCloud is not only compatible with iOS and Mac OS, but also Windows, the most wide-spread desktop operating system on the planet.To use iCloud, Windows PC owners need to download a certain “iCloud Control Panel for Windows” which delivers support for Photo Stream, Contacts and Calendars.Microsoft Outlook ... |
13 October 2011
09:07 GMT |
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One wouldn't expect it from what the media has been saying over the past couple of months, but it looks like consumers really want media slates loaded with a good Windows version.Whether it's because Windows is just such a long-lived software platform or because of some other reason, the operating system e... |
8 October 2011
08:01 GMT |
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Microsoft plans to roll out a 2011 time zone update to users in Eastern Europe at the end of this year, even though changes in daylight saving time will come into effect much sooner.
According to information offered by the Redmond company, the next time zone changes for 2011 will be introduced to Windows in Decem... |
6 October 2011
06:17 GMT |
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Microsoft is hard at work on a patch designed to address a vulnerability affecting SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) 3.0 and TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.0, even though the security hole is not specific to Windows.
Security researchers have recently demoed a new exploit targeting an SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 vulnerability... |
28 September 2011
06:18 GMT |
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Microsoft provided a heads-up last week, informing customers of an imminent update which would be introduced to its free security solution for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.
As of September 21, 2011, the company has released a refresh to the antimalware technology powering a range of its security solutio... |
22 September 2011
11:51 GMT |
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We already uncovered information on most of the items that will run Microsoft Windows and are scheduled for this fall, but the company has now made an announcement of its own, where it says exactly what its plans are. Windows 8 may not be due for a few months still, but this doesn't mean Microsoft is going to ... |
21 September 2011
11:26 GMT |
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Metro is the most palpable example of user interface innovation that Microsoft built into Windows since the release of Windows 95. A new platform as well as the medium facilitating a new interaction model for Windows users, Metro is much more than just UI. It’s key to catalyzing new user experiences powered by... |
16 September 2011
05:12 GMT |
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Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system has seen its first working build released on the web, in the form of a developer preview one, so we immediately decided to see how the new OS handles games, even in this incomplete version.
The first truly working build of Windows 8 has been released yesterday, and a... |
14 September 2011
10:36 GMT |
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Microsoft is working on its next operating system, as it always is, and it looks like Advanced Micro Devices is doing its best to be ready for it, having already developed compatible drivers.
The recent news involving Advanced Micro Devices have been in equal parts focused on the FX CPUs and the 7000 graphics.
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14 September 2011
04:00 GMT |
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NEC's recent releases have mostly stuck to the display and projector market segments, but the company is again showing just how varied its portfolio is by announcing a tablet PC.
Amidst the flood of ARM-based tablets, with or without the Android operating system, that have been coming out over the past year,... |
12 September 2011
02:50 GMT |
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The upcoming Windows 8 operating system for the PC is set to include a dedicated App Store, similar to what Apple's Mac OS X now has, and Epic Games is quite thrilled with the idea of being able to deliver software and games through it in a much easier to use manner.Microsoft's PC gaming efforts haven'... |
8 September 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Microsoft reacted extremely rapidly to protect users of Internet Explorer against attacks leveraging fraudulent DigiNotar root certificates, and is now providing an update for all supported versions of Windows designed to revoke the trust of all DigiNotar root certificates. Customers running Windows are advised to d... |
7 September 2011
12:12 GMT |
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Along with the release of Symbian Anna for all devices that landed on shelves with the Symbian^3 operating system on board, Nokia also made available upgraded tools that would enable users update their phones to the new platform release.
One of these is the Nokia Software Updater, available for machines running ... |
25 August 2011
18:51 GMT |
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It’s official, Windows XP is now a decade old operating system. Microsoft released Windows XP to manufacturing on August 24th, 2001, exactly 10 years ago today. The platform just turned 10 continues to be the king of the operating system market, has seen its territory eroded drastically by Windows 7, after it ... |
24 August 2011
04:11 GMT |
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Microsoft has never indicated even the faintest possibility of losing faith in the PC ecosystem, and the company is not budging even after the no.1 PC OEM worldwide, HP, announced that it’s considering alternatives for its Personal Systems Group. PSG sold the largest volume of consumer and commercial PCs the p... |
20 August 2011
06:29 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to release Windows 8, the next major version of Windows, and there’s already good news for the successor of Windows 7, namely the fact that the list of competitors is now one OS short. In the latest SEC filing for its annual report, the Redmond company reveals that it no longer consider... |
12 August 2011
11:20 GMT |
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Customers running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) can now download the latest cumulative time zone update from Microsoft Support. However, the August 2011 cumulative time zone update is designed to play nice with all supported Windows platforms and not just with Windows 7 SP1, according to Microsoft. The Redmond com... |
10 August 2011
09:50 GMT |
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It looks like Windows 8 won’t have much of a competition from rival operating systems, both traditional and emerging OSes, since the Windows platform is expected to continue its dominance through this year, and most probably the next few years as well. Gartner is forecasting that Microsoft will sell approximat... |
9 August 2011
12:51 GMT |
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While Microsoft has been hard at work building the next major iteration of Windows, some of the resources provided for Windows 7 and earlier Windows client have been ignored. Case in point: the DirectX software development kit. The evolution of the DirectX SDK has been frozen for well over a year now. Furthermore, ... |
29 July 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering users the chance to win a BlogHer’11 Survival kit, to celebrate this year’s BlogHer event. The Redmond company partnered with 5 Minutes for Mom for the BlogHer Survival Giveaway, which offers users the chance to win prizes such as a Sony VAIO SA running Windows 7, or a Samsung Focus... |
28 July 2011
11:07 GMT |
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Microsoft and SUSE, formerly Novell, renewed a deal which expanded the Windows and Linux interoperability marriage to almost a decade. Many called controversial an agreement between Microsoft and Novell dating back to November 2006, which was designed to not only bridge Windows Server and SUSE Linux interopera... |
26 July 2011
03:37 GMT |
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Microsoft is planning to introduce updates to the content available on the Windows Desktop Developer Center.According to the Content Project Manager for the Windows Developer Center, the updated resources are planned to go live quite soon, as soon as this week in fact. At the time of this article the Windows Deskto... |
25 July 2011
05:19 GMT |
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Two brand new reports about the upcoming Xbox 720 console have appeared over the weekend, with a statement from hardware manufacturer AMD saying that the graphics on the new device will rival those of Avatar, the movie, while a statement from Microsoft seemingly hints that a Windows operating system will be employed ... |
18 July 2011
18:01 GMT |
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A massive new rumor has surfaced on the web which claims that the upcoming Windows 8 operating system from Microsoft could enable computers to run games made for the Xbox 360 console.
Microsoft is raking in the cash from its Xbox division, what with the extremely popular Kinect and the array of new titles coming t... |
12 July 2011
05:40 GMT |
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2012 will be the fourth year in which Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer will deliver the opening keynote address at CES, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) confirmed earlier today. The 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is scheduled to take place between January 10-13, 2... |
6 July 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Wintel tablets haven't exactly made a name for themselves, despite companies' best efforts, but Gigabyte decided to release its own such product anyway, one dubbed S1080. As has become fairly common over the past two quarters, not a day seems to go by without some update on the tablet market. Of course,... |
5 July 2011
03:21 GMT |
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Nowadays, so-called Wintel tablets aren't really seen in such a favorable light, being overshadowed by the overall better Android-loaded ARM ones, but this might change once 2012 comes around.Apple's iPad, and, thus, the tablet market, came to be at what can be seen as an inopportune time for Intel and Mic... |
25 June 2011
07:11 GMT |
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It appears that even in the ocean of Android tablets there are some Windows 7 islands, like a certain product from Gigabyte that has now been listed as available for pre-order, although shipments won't begin until next month.The past few months saw announcement of both available and soon-to-come slates, many of... |
20 June 2011
10:50 GMT |
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Some may have heard that Qualcomm will soon release a new batch of application processors for mobile devices (smartphones, tablets), and it looks like they will have support for a certain OS not usually found on such items.Qualcomm has been collaborating with Microsoft for a while, and it looks like this has affecte... |
2 June 2011
08:48 GMT |
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By now, users will already know that the Microsoft Windows 8 operating system will support ARM and will work on tablets, but it looks like there might be some friction with the hardware makers themselves.When Microsoft announced that Windows 8 would support the ARM processor architecture, speculations immediately sp... |
2 June 2011
03:38 GMT |
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer was recently touting the upcoming release of next-generation Windows devices, and customers now have a chance to see the products he was talking about. Taiwan is the center of the hardware and device universe, these days more so than any time this year because of Compu... |
1 June 2011
09:46 GMT |
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There still are no form factors to climb to levels of success that are anything but a fraction of the sales of Windows computers. Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer revealed last week that the Redmond company together with its OEM partners sold more than half a billion PCs since Windows 7 hit general av... |
31 May 2011
10:21 GMT |
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The IT market is a big place so, naturally, there will be many rumors running around, and one of the more recent ones says that Toshiba might have decided to completely give up on Chrome OS netbooks and slates running Windows 7.Understandably enough, there is more than one rumor running about the web in regards to t... |
24 May 2011
09:27 GMT |
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With approximately 4 billion Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses depleted, the world is gearing up for the transition to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).
In contrast to IPv4, IPv6 offers a staggering volume of addresses, in excess of one billion per person – they’re bound to last quite so... |
21 May 2011
11:01 GMT |
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In excess of 350 million licenses of Windows 7 were sold in the 18 months passed since the platform hit GA, the first 300 million of which by the end of January 2011, but despite being the second most used OS on the market, Windows Vista’s successor is doing a far superior job at protecting users compared to W... |
13 May 2011
10:13 GMT |
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As end-users know, the past few days finally saw the emergence of netbooks powered by Chrome OS, Google's newest operating system, but as products get launched, the question arises on just how it will fare considering current and future development.The Chrome OS operating system is something that has been the s... |
13 May 2011
09:45 GMT |
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When Google first announced Chromium and Chrome I said that the search giant was positioning the new browser as a Windows killer and not necessarily as an Internet Explorer competitor. How can a browser take on an entire operating system? Well, fast forward a few years, and get ready for the first Chromebook (expect... |
12 May 2011
04:40 GMT |
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Slow month for Microsoft, patch-wise, with just two security bulletins available in May 2011, designed to plug only three holes in Windows and Office. As revealed in the Advanced Notification that the software giant made public last week, only one of the two patch packages this month carries a rating of Critical. O... |
11 May 2011
05:23 GMT |
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If you’re like me, then you love building your own computer, sometimes after months of research for the perfect “recipe” of hardware components. It’s an entirely different feeling to boot Windows on a machine you put together with your own hands than fire up an OEM PC. And there are enthusia... |
5 May 2011
05:02 GMT |
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Microsoft has released a hotfix designed to introduce three new changes in Windows Daylight Saving Time support for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1). At the same time, KB 2543367 is designed not only for Windows 7 SP1, but also for all supported versions of Windows. According to the Redmond company, customers running... |
4 May 2011
09:38 GMT |
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A technology originally developed for use in outer space is currently being used to create new energy-saving windows and insulating glass. This is possible through the use of a new sensors, which space agencies use to measure the number of oxygen atoms in the proximity of space vehicles.
But experts had the idea o... |
3 May 2011
02:32 GMT |
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As expected, Microsoft reported strong results for the past fiscal quarter, beating analyst estimates, which had forecasted a 12% growth. Instead, revenue for the quarter ended Mar. 31, 2011, increased by 13% compared to Q3 2010, to no less than $16.43 billion. And while Windows did manage to steal the limelight fr... |
29 April 2011
04:00 GMT |
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Windows 7’s unaltered momentum has pushed the operating system to a new milestone dwarfing the success of all other platform releases even further. Microsoft reveals that Windows 7 sales have hit the 350 million mark at a year and a half since general availability, an impressive accomplishment, by any standard... |
23 April 2011
02:52 GMT |
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