By the end of March 2011, Windows 7 was powering 20.9 percent of corporate PCs, according to a new Forrester Research report, while Windows XP was on 60 percent of business PCs — down from 69 percent a year ago.
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Given the news that has alreadycome out about Facebook, you’re probably thinking there is no way that anything else leaks out today. They’re probably on lockdown (real lockdown, not the crazed coding “lockdown”), right? Wrong.
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News of Garmin's plans to acquire Navigon leaked out earlier this month, but we now have official word that the GPS giant will bring the smaller German company under its wing beginning in late July.
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Microsoft will be discontinuing the My Phone service for Windows Mobile 6.x. We will also be discontinuing the Windows Marketplace for Mobile web site.
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Microsoft has promised it will release a major edition of Windows Phone every year.
The promise was revealed in a Microsoft job posting on Monday. Engadget notes that the timeline shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given that iOS and Android both push out major releases months apart.
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Microsoft has revealed that its Xbox LIVE service will be built into PCs in the future.
Mike Delman, Microsoft’s vice president of global marketing in the interactive entertainment business unit, revealed the company’s plans in an interview this week.
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Redmond's purchase option automatically kicks in if a third-party offers $3.4 billion or more for tablet chipmaker's shares.
Microsoft and Nvidia have an agreement in place that spells out terms relating to a possible acquisition of the graphics and mobile processor manufacturer, regulatory documents indicate.
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A Russian 'freelance researcher' says he has reverse engineered much of Skype's code and intends to make the project open source.
Efim Bushmanov has posted binaries of his work so far, as well as the original source code, on his blog saying he is looking for 'friends' to complete the project.
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A collection of console emulators, including N64oid, Nesoid and Snesoid, have been removed from the Android Market. HotHardwareand Engadget both report that the -oid series developer, Yong Zhang, has also lost his Android Market developer account.
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Clement Lefebvre, father of the Linux Mint project, announced a couple of minutes ago, May 26th, the new and highly anticipated Linux Mint 11 operating system, dubbed Katya.
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Microsoft gets $5 for every HTC phone running Android, according to Citi analyst Walter Pritchard, who released a big report on Microsoft this morning.
Microsoft is getting that money thanks to a patent settlement with HTC over intellectual property infringement.
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So that one group who is relentlessly and mercilessly obliterating that other group who had another group inside their group who did a thing like a while
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