The decline in usage share of Windows XP, which is slated for retirement in 53 weeks, has slowed significantly, hinting that millions of its users will hold onto the operating system much longer than some, including Microsoft, expect. ...
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Windows 8 last month fell even further behind the historical adoption pace of Windows Vista, Microsoft's 2007 flop, new statistics showed today. The bright spot for Windows 8 in the data from Web analytics company Net Applications: Its ...
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FACEBOOK has fuelled fresh talk about its interest in mobile phones after the leading social network scheduled a press announcement for next week. Shortly after the Facebook invitation went out for the April 4 event, the technology news ...
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A Spanish association of Linux users today accused Microsoft of anti-competitive practices, charging that Windows 8's Secure Boot blocks users from installing rival operating systems on new PCs. Hispalinux, which represents some 8,000 ...
Tags: Microsoft, EU Antitrust Probe, Linux Group
This year, VSX – Vogel Software, producer of pump selection software Spaix, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The company looks back on an outstanding success story and there’s no end in sight. When thinking about their ...
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Microsoft yesterday confirmed Windows "Blue," an upgrade to Windows 8, but analysts remained uneasy about how the faster release cadence that Blue represents will be digested by businesses. "Microsoft is going to be on an annual release ...
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In the midst of its latest campaign to fight piracy in China, Microsoft has signed an agreement with Lenovo to ensure that its PCs ship with licensed versions of Windows software on its computers As part of the agreement signed Tuesday, ...
Microsoft Corp. today announced that the company has talked 10 K–12 school districts and higher-education institutions into adopting Windows 8 for more than 540,000 students and faculty to prepare students for futures in college and ...
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With Windows 8 not even six months old, Microsoft is already rushing out a major upgrade, codenamed Windows Blue, which will offer better multitasking, new built-in apps, more personalisation and an improved "Start" screen. The ...
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Renesas Electronics' latest system-on-a-chip has eight ARM processing cores to help next-generation, in-car infotainment systems handle multiple streams of 1080p video and augmented reality apps. The R-Car H2 system-on-a-chip is based on ...
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Brocade today announced its new Fabric Vision technology, a hardware and software SAN solution. The company claims that the product maximises uptime, dramatically simplifies SAN deployment and management, and provides unprecedented levels ...
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According to Gartner, Oracle suffered the most as growth in the storage market continued to slow during the end of 2012. Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM also struggled while EMC emerged as the big winner. Revenue totalled US$6 billion in ...
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Mobile-based browsing has tripled in the last two years, and is making significant inroads on traditional Internet access from personal computers, according to statistics from a Web metrics company. Mobile's gains are in part a side ...
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Microsoft today announced it would start pushing updated versions of several long-criticized Windows 8 apps, including Mail, Calendar and People, the "Modern"-style program for keeping track of contacts, to the Windows Store tomorrow. ...
IDC predicted Tuesday on Tuesday that the Tablet PC shipments with Android operating system whose sales may exceed iPad this year for the first time. Although iPad and iPhone shipments will continue to grow rapidly, the rival Samsung ...
Tags: Tablet PC shipments, Android operating system, Flat Computer