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Apple makes a bid for a larger slice of the browser market with a version of Safari for Windows, XP, and Vista.
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The launch of Windows Vista will create a huge opportunity for Linux vendors to take a larger share of the corporate desktop market, according to the president of Linux Australia.
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Once the toast of the gadget market, personal digital assistants have been losing some of their fizz and in 2002 continued a steady slide.
In the face of an identical hardware platform, Toshiba's netbook fails to bring a unique point of difference.
Microsoft will extend the security measures now found in its Windows XP operating system to Windows 2000 and the slimmer version of the OS used in handheld devices.
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