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If Windows is a dead end, what's next? The writing is on the wall. Despite a major push to sell the much-maligned Windows Vista, customers aren't buying. Nearly two years after Vista's release, Windows XP remains the standard desktop OS in business, and Microsoft has extended its availability three times ( Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Put new life into Windows XP Microsoft may have given up on Windows XP, but that doesn't mean you have to.While there's plenty of life in the old operating system, there's also a good chance XP may start looking long in the tooth to you. Th Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Another Windows XP reprieve unlikely Microsoft may be set to extend Windows XP 's availability for low-cost laptops and a new generation of handheld devices, but it won't give the aged operating system a general reprieve from its June 30 retail and OEM cut-off, analysts said Tuesday. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Programmer unlocks hidden Windows 7 features A programmer has unlocked several still-unfinished features of Windows 7 that Microsoft has hidden from users who received the alpha build at two recent developer conferences.Over the weekend, Rafael Rivera, a d Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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What we know about Windows 7 This week, Microsoft went on a 24-hour marketing blitz to talk up the next version of Windows, simply called "Windows 7" for now.Although some of what Microsoft's executives and spokespeople had to say was how m Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7 Microsoft Tuesday revealed Windows 7 at its annual Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. Windows 7 is designed to replace Windows Vista as the main operating system for Windows-based PC users. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Will Microsoft deliver Windows 7 next year? Microsoft has dropped two strong hints in the past two days that the next version of its Windows operating system will arrive in 2009, shaving up to a year off previous expectations.It could also be a signal tha Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Enterprises pass on Internet Explorer 7, Windows Vista Microsoft is having problems getting enterprises to give up Internet Explorer 6 and Windows XP for the new IE7 and Vista, according to surveys of more then 50,000 corporate users done throughout 2007.Both IE6 an Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Windows is 'collapsing,' Gartner analysts warn Calling the situation "untenable" and describing Windows as "collapsing," a pair of Gartner analysts Thursday said Microsoft must make radical changes to the operating system or risk becoming a has-been.In a pre Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Pirates prefer Windows XP over Vista, says Microsoft Software counterfeiters pass on Windows Vista and instead prefer to pirate Windows XP, a Microsoft attorney said Tuesday, outlining a practice that tracks with the leanings of many of the company's customers.Wh Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft warns users of coming update to Windows Update Microsoft has announced it will upgrade Windows' update mechanism later this month, a warning that comes nearly a year after the company issued a similar upgrade without informing users.Last September, reports o Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft: Mum's the word on Windows 7 Microsoft broke silence Tuesday about the next edition of its flagship operating system, but essentially all it said is it would not talk publicly about Windows 7.In both an entry posted to its Windows Vista blo Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft grants Windows XP yet another reprieve Microsoft has extended the availability of Windows XP on new PCs by six months, the company confirmed Friday.Computer makers that "downgrade" machines from Windows Vista Business or Vista Ultimate to Windows XP Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Despite deadlines, Windows XP to be sold a few more years June 30 of this year and Jan. 31, 2009, may be the deadlines for U.S. retailers and custom system builders, respectively, to sell Windows XP. But, due to exceptions Microsoft has made, the operating system will be available for at least the next two years for those wh Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Windows XP SP3 reboot hell (and how to get out of it) Microsoft's having a tough year with reboots. First it was a reboot ad infinitum in February, brought on by a flawed update to Windows Vista . Now the same thing's happening to some users who have updated to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3). Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft adds Facebook-like qualities to Windows Live xMicrosoft aims to turn its Windows Live portal into something more like a social-networking site with features it will add to the next major update of its online services and applications.Windows Live users wil Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft may release Windows 7 beta at show Attendees at next month's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) could get the first public look at Windows 7, the next version of Microsoft's client OS.At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles in Octob Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Worst Windows flaws of the past decade June 25, 1998, and June 30, 2008, marked two important milestones in Microsoft's evolution of the Windows OS -- the passing of the torch from Windows 95 to Windows 98, and the less seemly transition from XP to Vista. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Windows 7: The Linux killer Microsoft has long been worried about Linux competition in the server market. When it came to ordinary PCs and laptops, however, it knew it had little to fear.But that was then. Now Microsoft may fear Linux on t Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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New Windows Server will lead march to 64-bit OS The launch of a new family of Windows server products this week will kick-start a broad shift among customers to 64-bit versions of Microsoft's server software, analysts and customers said.Microsoft CEO Steve Ba Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |