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Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News Versions of Office are affected by this flaw, including Office XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), and Office 2003 SP2 and SP3. Affected software includes Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3, Office 2008 for Mac, Office 2004 for Mac, and iterations of Office... [13 Aug 2008]
Intel's Atom cracks into PC World
News PC World's machine, also manufactured by MSI, comes only in a Windows XP flavour and has a 10.2-inch screen. Fennell said netbooks - a term initially promoted by Intel to identify low-cost, low-performance, ultraportable laptops, and epitomised by... [08 Jul 2008]
IBM sings a Symphony to rival Office
News Symphony 1.0 is now available as a standalone package, running on Windows Vista and XP, as well as on major Linux versions including Suse and Red Hat. IBM has launched a commercially supported version of its Lotus Symphony productivity suite, ready... [09 Jun 2008]
Critics label Microsoft's OOXML a 'marketing tool'
News Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft The developer of XML and a former International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee chair have both claimed Microsoft was interested in having Office Open XML (OOXML) accredited... [21 Apr 2008]
Microsoft Windows 'collapsing' under own weight
News Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft Silver said he recommends IT executives do use Vista - but on an attrition basis, so that, as PCs with Windows XP are retired, they are replaced with PCs running Vista. [11 Apr 2008]
Office 2007 spurs boom in software market
News Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP. Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP. One year on: XP still outshining Vista Although boxed copy sales of Vista have been down over... [31 Jan 2008]
Do US businesses want Vista at last?
News Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP. Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP. One year on: XP still outshining Vista The CDW survey also found an increase in Microsoft... [16 Jan 2008]
Don't put Vista in schools, says education agency
News Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP. One year on: XP still outshining Vista Gates: Vista selling faster than XP Becta, the organisation that implements government educational... [10 Jan 2008]
Stories of the year
News Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linus, XP… And according to a poll of silicon.com readers Windows XP would be top dog in an OS battle, with Mac OS X coming in second place. But one of the biggest stories of 2007 - and not just in the tech... [14 Dec 2007]
Stories of the month - November 2007
News Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP.iPhone in the UK: Hands up who wants one? And according to a poll of silicon.com readers Windows XP would be top dog in an OS battle, with Mac OS X coming in second place. [29 Nov 2007]
One year on: XP still outshining Vista
News New tests have revealed XP with the beta SP3 has twice the performance of Vista, even with the newer OS' long-awaited SP1. Gates: Vista selling faster than XP ¦ Vista, both with and without SP1, performed more than two times slower than XP with... [28 Nov 2007]
Microsoft licensing value under scrutiny
News Gates: Vista selling faster than XP ¦ He said: "I made the error of signing off purchase of Microsoft Office licences with Software Assurance, taking advantage of our corporate Select Agreement pricing. [15 Nov 2007]
Microsoft says sorry for update blunder
News Gates: Vista selling faster than XP ¦ One IT manager affected by the update told silicon.com: "I came into the office this morning and found that every one of our desktops and servers which are on WSUS have had the WDS tool automatically installed. [26 Oct 2007]
Stories of the Month - September 2007
News There was more speculation this month that Microsoft is struggling to convince businesses about its Vista operating system, with news that the company is now allowing PC makers to offer a "downgrade" option for buyers preferring to use XP. [28 Sep 2007]
Vista sales failing to sparkle
News Sales of boxed copies of Windows Vista continue to significantly trail those of Windows XP during its early days, according to a soon-to-be-released report. Standalone unit sales of Vista at US retail stores were down 59.7 per cent compared with... [12 Sep 2007]
