Did you know that Amazon is still selling Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional Edition?  They are still moving quite well given that many Windows users not too keen on Vista. Amazon has a nice deal on these products as well, with Windows XP Professional Edition selling for $279.99 and Windows XP Home [...]

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According to a computer industry exec, Microsoft could be ready to start shipping its Windows 7 operating system as early as the third quarter, months before their initial prediction. “According to current planning, it should be late September or early October,” said Ray Chen, president of Compal Electronics Inc.，the company that makes laptops for Hewlett [...]

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Image via Wikipedia Here they come, ALL of them… Windows 7 Starter Edition Windows 7 Home Basic Windows 7 Home Premium Windows 7 Professional Windows 7 Enterprise (Beam me up, Scottie) Windows 7 Ultimate Why do I feel like I’m looking at a Coke display? Hmm, there’s Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Cherry Coke, Cherry [...]

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Image via CrunchBase The grim economic outlook isn’t getting any better today. Microsoft has announced that it will be lay off up to 5,000 people over the next 18 months.  This represents about 5 percent of their total workforce. Of that amount, 1,400 people will be losing their jobs today. Microsoft also says that it [...]

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F-Secure’s chief research officer, Nikko Hypponen, told AP Digital in a phone interview that there’s currently an incredibly fast-spreading computer virus moving through the U.S., Europe and Asia. It has already infected as many as 9 million Windows-based computers. According to F-Secure, it is migrating “more rapidly through corporate networks than anything seen in years.” [...]

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Image via CrunchBase It looks like Microsoft really screwed up.  After promising to give away free downloads of Windows 7 Beta, the demand woud up being SO huge that their servers couldn’t handle the load, resulting in a PR disaster. Well, fear not. Microsoft’s Brandon LeBlanc writes on the Windows 7 blog: Due to an [...]

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Image via CrunchBase It looks as though Microsoft will give away 2.5 million downloadable copies of it Windows 7 beta release…for free. The latest operating system from Microsoft was leaked online last year. It has been a very popular download on many P2P sites like BitTorrent. There are one or two conditions, however. The biggest [...]

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