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Windows XP usage share falls by record amount

Microsoft’s Windows XP lost an unprecedented amount of online usage share last month, a Web metrics company stated. The aging operating system — it turned 10 several weeks ago — lost almost 2 percentage points during September to end the … Continue reading

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First take on Windows 8: Two things wrong and one thing right

Microsoft has given us a first taste of Windows 8. Unfortunately, while it has some attractive visual elements, Microsoft’s approach shows that the company hasn’t learned much from its product failures over the past decade. My first impression is that … Continue reading

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Decipher fact from fiction: Deconstructing the debut of Windows 8

Last week at All Things Digital’s D9 conference in California, Microsoft Windows and Windows Live Division president Steve Sinofsky introduced the next version of the Windows OS to the world. And what a coming-out party it was. The guest of … Continue reading

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Internet Explorer 9: The OS and Hardware Matter

By Tony Bradley, PCWorld Internet Explorer 9 is officially here but IE9 is only compatible with Windows 7 and Windows Vista, so two-thirds of the PCs in the world can’t take advantage of it. It may seem odd, or self-defeating … Continue reading

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IE9 and Privacy: Introducing Tracking Protection

Microsoft has revealed that Internet Explorer 9 will include features to combat the tracking of online user behaviour by web sites, following the endorsement of some form of ‘Do Not Track’ mechanism by the US Federal Trade Commission. An excerpt … Continue reading

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