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Microsoft to kill off IE6 with silent updates
After repeated pleas to switch from Internet Explorer 6 and creating a website to kill it off , Microsoft ( NASDAQ: MSFT ) has finally figured out the perfect a way to finally wipe IE6 off the face of
Microsoft Windows Live Essentials 2011 released
Microsoft's ( NASDAQ: MSFT ) Windows Live Essentials 2011 has moved out of beta into final release. The free all-in-one productivity suite consists of a number of applications such as Windows Live
Market share of Windows 7 up; Mac OS X down
Windows 7 has passed Windows Vista in market share, says the latest results from Netmarketshare.com. This information comes courtesy of some 160 million visits per month to 40,000 monitored websites;
Microsoft issues emergency patch for Windows shortcut bug
Microsoft ( NASDAQ: MSFT ) has issued an emergency patch this week for a critical Windows bug that first came to light a few weeks ago. The out-of-band security update addresses the .LNK vulnerability
Time to start moving away from Windows XP, Gartner warns
Organizations should "start drawing up plans" to eliminate Windows XP, says Gartner. This warning is pertinent, says the research firm, as many of their clients opted to skip Windows Vista, and hence
Windows 7: The first six months
Microsoft has sold more than 100 million Windows 7 licenses since putting the software on the market six months ago, making it "by far the fastest-selling operating system in history," the company
VMware Workstation 7.1 Beta now available for download
Virtualization giant VMware has just released its latest desktop hypervisor software, Workstation 7.1 for beta download. Among hundreds of minor improvements, some key enhancements in Workstation 7.1
Release date for Windows 7 SP1 moved forward
Rumors have it that Microsoft will be releasing the first service pack for the popular Windows 7 operating system toward the end of 2010, or about Q4 of this year. Using previous Windows releases as
Windows 8 development is well under way
Users who love the improvements in Windows 7 will have more to look forward to, if a blog posting by a Microsoft employee is anything to go by. The official blog post by someone in the "Windows
Sales of Windows 7 exceed that of Vista
The results are in: Microsoft sold significantly more copies of the Windows 7 operating system in the week after its official launch than was achieved by Windows Vista in 2007. To be precise,
