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Microsoft’s revenue hits a record 25 percent, but is overtaken by Apple

Published on: 31st October, 2010

Microsoft announced a record in revenue for the summer quarter by reaching $16.2 billion. The figure is a 25 percent jump compared to last year and was supported by unbound Windows 7 sales accompanied by Office 2010 and the Xbox 360. Without giving numbers, the company sold 38 percent more console games than last summer, [...]

Microsoft ceased preinstallation of Windows XP on PCs

Published on: 31st October, 2010

Following an announcement made this summer, Microsoft will no more allow PC manufacturers to preload Windows XP on new devices. Its decision refers to computer systems in general, but specifically to notebooks. The only possibility to get Windows XP on a new system will be, from now on, a downgrade option which will be viable [...]

Western Digital, the first to ship an internal 3TB hard drive

Published on: 23rd October, 2010

A symbolic milestone has been reached recently by Western Digital by being the first producer to ship a 3TB internal hard drive. Its Caviar Green 3TB model packs 750GB per disk platter and is meant to be used with 64-bit platforms such as Windows 7 64-bit or OS X Snow Leopard, which can access and [...]

Microsoft will not have an interim tablet version of OS before Windows 8

Published on: 12th October, 2010

Microsoft’s chief Steve Ballmer declared at a TechDays session in the United Kingdom that there would not be an intermediate version designed for tablets between Windows 7 and 8. He said Microsoft would not make a revamp before its next version of the operating system, which would probably wait until 2012. Improvements of the user [...]

Family Pack of Windows 7 reviving, but still many users hanging on XP

Published on: 8th October, 2010

Microsoft hoped to revive interest in Windows 7 by reintroducing the Windows 7 Family Pack. As it happened before, this deal provides a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium accompanied by licenses for three PCs. The pack can be ordered by US customers for $150. International buyers will have to wait until October 22nd, the [...]

Microsoft expects Windows-based rivals for iPad by holidays

Published on: 8th October, 2010

The tablet strategy of Microsoft has accelerated with the remarks of the company’s CEO Steve Ballmer who said that Windows-based devices rival to the iPad should be in stores before the end of this year. It was in a presentation held at the London School of Economics where it has not named the companies but [...]

Hewlett Packard’s webOS tablets to be similar to the iPad?

Published on: 25th September, 2010

Hewlett Packard has likened the upcoming webOS tablet to the iPad in a circulating developer memo of Peter Helm. He said that the former Palm team was advancing at full speed with an applications initiative. He also explained that HP was developing the webOS for more phones and equally for tablet-style devices that would resemble [...]

On October 22nd, Dell will stop shipping Windows XP-based systems

Published on: 13th September, 2010

Dell has recently confirmed that, following Microsoft’s guidelines, it would no longer ship PCs with Windows XP Home or XP Professional starting with October 22nd this year. XP will be no more offered as an OEM or as a downgrade option on Acer’s PCs starting this month in order to prepare the termination of every [...]

Microsoft will offer again the Windows 7 Family Pack promo

Published on: 6th September, 2010

Microsoft will soon bring back in the USA the Windows 7 Family Pack promotion, in order to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Windows 7; the promotion will be available starting October 3. The company claims that customers with valid Windows XP or Vista licenses on a PC that is able to run Windows 7 can [...]

Firefox 4 beta 3 accommodates Windows 7 multi-touch

Published on: 17th August, 2010

Mozilla has recently announced the release of Firefox 4 beta 3, which accommodates Windows 7 with multi-touch input from the operating system provided by Microsoft. Web developers are now able to write code directly for touchscreen interfaces instead of considering the use of a mouse. There is an upgraded JavaScript engine for every platform, which [...]

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