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Microsoft Corp. has sold twice as many copies of Windows 7 in its first few weeks than any previous version of the operating system, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said.
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As of December, Apple’s Mac OS X commanded 9.63 percent of the OS market, according to Net Applications, while Microsoft still led the way, accounting for more than 88 percent of the operating-system market.

But the real story behind those figures is Apple’s meteoric rise in the market. Just one year prior, in [...]

Apple reports that it took Apple just two days to reach 1 million downloads of its newest Safari Web browser for Windows.
If these downloads manifested into regular Safari users, then we just
might have a third major browser on the Windows platform. If Safari can
obtain a 10% market share on Windows, then it would further weaken [...]

Five years after the release of Windows XP and costing a staggering $9 billion to create, Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing by Microsoft. The mighty marketing machine has swung into action. “Microsoft’s most important product launch ever” blare the headlines in the trade press. Yet the silence from businesses and customers is deafening. [...]

I have always had a fascination with desktop Linux. After all, it’s sleek, fast (usually) and being Open Source, the various Linux distros come with lots of free software. I sometimes think of it as “Mac light,” but Mac fans will probably disagree with that description.
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My problem with Linux has been that there is [...]