Microsoft’s COO, Kevin Turner, just couldn’t help himself and has poured salt in the wounds of Apple after he said that Apple’s new iPhone 4 is like their poorly received Windows Vista. In a put-down that will anger Apple, the Microsoft big-wig said: “It looks like the iPhone 4 might be [Apple’s] Vista, and I’m [...]

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The Redmond software and marketing machine is in full flight at the moment, and the impact on the web is dramatic. Almost all of the press we see has Windows 7 in a good light, and perhaps quite rightly. I for one have bandied the phrase, “What Vista should have been”, and extolled it’s virtues to all that would listen, I have even pre-ordered a copy. But are we going too far in our wonder and praise for Windows 7? And is it being perpetuated by Microsofts marketing department?

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For those of you waiting for the release of Windows 7, we have come a step closer with the announcement of the pricing. The news is good though, and not what we are expecting, there have been price drops since Vista.

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CNN are reporting that Microsoft is facing its first fall in sales in more than 2 decades, and in the midst of a poor economic climate the Redmond based behemoth will clearly now be refocusing its efforts on regaining its previous market dominance, but what’s caused this turn of events?

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Researchers have uncovered what they seem to think is a flaw in Windows 7 that has no fix. At the Hack in the Box Security Conference in Dubai, Vipin Kumar and Nitin Kumar demonstrated their Vbootkit 2.0 software, and used it to take control of a computer running Windows 7 at boot time.

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Microsoft has announced that the release candidate of Windows 7 will be available for download on the 5th May. Those of you with a subscription to MSDN or TechNet are lucky enough to be able to download it from yesterday! The release from Microsoft is as follows…

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The most successful companies are those who rise to the challenge of change and that is exactly what Microsoft is doing by making preparations to wind-down its Windows operating system. Microsoft have been developing an internet-based OS called Midori, which is as different to Windows as an alcoholic drink is to a double-glazed hole in [...]

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If you’re bored at work and itching to get yourself through the day then you know the drill! Rather then surfing around trying to keep yourself occupied before you make a quick sprint to the door when it’s home time; catch up on stories that have been causing a storm on the social network sites [...]

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