Computerworld - One in four Macs now run OS X Mountain Lion, Apple's newest operating system, data released last week showed. But there are signs that OS X Snow Leopard, an edition shipped in August 2009, may be the Mac's equivalent of ...
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Driven by millions of upgrades,Windows 8's global usage share climbed by a third last month,but the new OS's adoption pace remained lethargic compared to that of its predecessor three years ago. According to data released Thursday by ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today said that the company had sold 4 million upgrades to Windows 8 since Friday,when the discounted deals kicked off. "In just the last three days,we have sold 4 million Windows 8 ...
Microsoft will not sell Windows 8 as a physical boxed product in China and instead will only distribute the OS through downloads and pre-installs on devices,in a move that could help the company drive consumers away from pirated copies of ...
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Windows 7's malware infection rate climbed by as much as 182% this year, Microsoft said today. But even with that dramatic increase, Windows 7 remained two to three times less likely to fall to hacker attack than the aged Windows XP. ...
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With just weeks before the public launch of Windows 8,users are five times less likely to be running the new OS than they were Windows 7 at the same point in its countdown,an analytics firm said today. The newest numbers from ...
Microsoft is taking a"big gamble"with its new Windows 8,one that will see the operating system peak at just 20%to 25%of corporate PCs,Gartner analysts said today. "Microsoft is taking a big gamble over the next few months with Windows and ...
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Apple yesterday quietly released a security update for OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, effectively extending support for the three-year-old OS beyond the normal lifecycle. The Snow Leopard update shipped alongside larger updates for Lion and ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft on Wednesday released a stopgap defense that protects Internet Explorer (IE) against attacks until the company issues a patch on Friday. The update will fix five flaws, including one revealed by a security ...
The first smartphones to rely on Google's Chrome browser for Android will be Motorola Mobility's just-announced Droid Razr M, Droid Razr Maxx and Droid Razr HD, the company said Wednesday. The Droid Razr M, the only one of the trio that ...
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As Google touted Chrome's fourth launch anniversary on Tuesday,a pair of Web measurement firms continued to argue about whether the browser is still gaining ground or has stalled. According to California-based Net Applications,Chrome's ...
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When a former Mozilla employee knocked the company's accelerated release schedule as having "killed Firefox's reputation," he got more than he bargained for. Comments by Jono Xia in a July 5 post to his personal blog ...
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Google yesterday claimed that its Chrome is the world's most popular browser,interceding for the first time in the dispute over browser usage share. "According to all our metrics and everything we see out there,Chrome is the most popular ...
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