Microsoft will support its Surface Pro tablet until July 2017, or almost four-and-a-half years after its launch last weekend, the company's website confirmed. Like its predecessor the Surface RT, the Windows 8-powered Surface Pro sports a ...
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Freeing the way for independent Linux distributions to be installed on Windows 8 computers, the Linux Foundation has released software that will allow Linux to work with computers running the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) ...
Adobe on Thursday updated Flash Player to patch a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers were already using to hijack Windows PCs and Macs. The out-of-band, or emergency, update was Flash's first of the year and the first since ...
Microsoft's $2 billion loan to Dell, the world's third-largest seller of personal computers, was a signal that the personal computer, Microsoft's Windows, or both, are at growing risk of irrelevance, analysts said Tuesday. The loan was ...
Mozilla yesterday took another step toward delivering a "Metro" version of Firefox to Windows 8 users. Late Tuesday, Asa Dotzler, the Firefox desktop product manager, announced that a preliminary Metro browser had reached ...
c , which shipped in August 2009, continued to resist retirement last month, new data showed. January statistics from Web analytics vendor Net Applications pegged Snow Leopard's share of all Macs at 28.2%, half a point higher than the ...
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Microsoft today said it will issue 12 security updates next week, including two for Internet Explorer (IE), that will patch a near-record 57 vulnerabilities in the browser, Windows, Office and the enterprise-critical Exchange Server email ...
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The popular games platform Steam is now available for Linux laptops, according to a blog by Canonical, distributor of the Ubuntu operating system. While Linux has long been one of the main operating system of choice on the server, ...
Dell's K3000 mobile device management (MDM) appliance is set for release next month, offering organisations a secure means of managing tablets and smartphones in the workplace. But while it offers web-based dashboard support for a wide ...
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Surface RT finding a place in the tablet market "is not going to happen" while Surface Pro isn't "going to make a dent either". So said ex-Microsoft senior vice president Joachim Kempin when asked to assess the company's chances of ...
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Microsoft is pulling no punches with a new promotional campaign for its revamped Outlook email service, as it directly accuses Google of "invasion of your privacy" and "going through mail to sell ads". The campaign - which Microsoft calls ...
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The Linux Foundation has released software that will allow Linux to work with computers running the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware, which all Windows 8 machines do. The Linux Foundation Secure Boot System solves a ...
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Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates recently took part in a question-and-answer session on popular message board site Reddit. Gates’ Ask Me Anything (AMA) session garnering more than 18,000 comments shortly after it ended. ...
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Just hours after Microsoft’s Surface Windows 8 Pro tablet went on sale on Saturday in the United States, the 128GB version sold out online. Shoppers looking for the $1,000 tablet at the online outlets of Best Buy and Staples, as ...
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A picture is worth a thousand words; the grey line in a graph from MetroStore Scanner, a site that keeps unofficial tabs on new additions to the Windows Store, shows the growth rate over the Windows Store over the past 15 days. It’s a ...