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    Almost a year on from the release of Microsoft's Windows Vista, only 13 percent of companies say they expect to move all desktops to the operating system, according to a survey released this week. Furthermore, adoption of Linux continues to gather pace, with a particular emphasis on the desktop emerging.

  • Lenovo on-track for Beijing 2008

    Tomorrow marks the 500 day countdown to the opening of Beijing 2008 where official sponsor Lenovo will provide up to 20,000 products to ensure the logistics behind the event runs smoothly.

  • Dell picks Ubuntu for Linux PCs

    Dell is trying a second time to sell personal computers with Linux preinstalled, this time using the up-and-coming Ubuntu version of the open-source operating system.

  • Michael Dell back as CEO, Rollins resigns

    Michael Dell is back in charge of the company he founded after a terrible year for the PC maker.

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    While recycling is all fine and good, before we go to the trouble of ripping an item to bits and making it into something else â€" there is an intermediate stage: Reuse!

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    Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer got Microsoft its first billion customers. It's Will Poole's job to get the next billion.

  • Photo gallery: Intel checks into the hospital

    Intel and Motion Computing design a tablet-like PC specifically for medical professionals.

  • Vista's Last Mile

    Each day, members of the Windows team gather inside a "shiproom" to go over the bugs that remain, and to debate which of these can still be fixed in the days left until the product is declared finished.

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    Hijacked Web browsers, slow bootups, lost shortcuts, choppy video -- we've gathered 10 easy, inexpensive solutions for these and other common computing problems.

  • Tech Guide: Proceed with care

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  • Secret to my excess: multimonitors and PCs

    Is it strange to want to have more than one monitor and one computer on your desk? It might be the way most of us will work some day soon. Here's why -- and how.

  • PC throwback on last legs

    One of the last and least loved throwbacks to the early days of PCs, the BIOS, is about to get its marching orders, says Intel

  • Intel touts extended uses for PC

    Chipmaker Intel not only wants to get inside the personal computer, it now wants to be outside, too, amid slumping demand for PCs that has Intel touting new consumer devices to change the way PCs are used.

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