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  • Microsoft preps XP push, mulls Longhorn 'priorities'

    With a long-awaited security update to Windows XP now complete, Microsoft is preparing a holiday season push for the 3-year-old operating system--and is set to revisit ambitious plans for the next major revision, News.com has learned.

  • Ballmer grins and bears Linux-a little

    Despite his fondness for Windows, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the company will make it easier for businesses to manage a wide variety of machines -- including those running Linux.

  • Technological baby names: Horrific or cool?

    It is a well known and popular fact that people are a product of society. Now people are beginning to name their children after products, and who knows where that will end?

  • Microsoft cuts Windows virtualisation features

    Microsoft said on Thursday that it is pulling features out of the initial version of its "Viridian" hypervisor to avoid having to delay the virtualisation technology.

  • Video: DET considers Linux on the desktop

    The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) may increase the penetration of Linux on its 165,000 desktop fleet because open source is "clearly an industry trend".

  • Video: Licence costs may delay DET Vista plans

    Windows Vista seems to be better at fighting off virus infections then XP but the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) will delay an upgrade unless licensing costs are reduced.

  • Video: DET begins slow crawl to a new Vista

    The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET), which has one of the largest IT infrastructures in Australia, will face some unique challenges if it decides to migrate its desktop fleet to Microsoft's new operating system.

  • Video: DET mulls Vista savings, training

    After almost a year of testing, the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) admits it could save a 'significant amount' of money by adopting Vista's new management capabilities; but will that recoup the cost of re-training 1.2 million users?

  • Vista graphics tools to reach Mac, phones

    Microsoft will bring some of the graphics destined for Windows Vista to the Macintosh, phones and older versions of Windows next year through a user interface toolkit.

  • Vista delay could sting PC makers

    Everyone was asking the same question on Tuesday: What does the Windows Vista delay mean for me?

  • Mozilla, Gnome mull united front against Longhorn

    As Microsoft focuses on merging its Web browser and operating system software, open-source competitors are mulling a proposal to join forces and beat the software giant to the punch.

  • Microsoft gunning for Adobe's PDF format?

    When Bill Gates showed off the new Metro document format in Longhorn at a hardware conference last week, some analysts were quick to call it a PDF killer.

  • Microsoft virtualisation plan takes shape

    Microsoft has given more details on its plans to launch Windows-based "hypervisor" software for running multiple operating systems.

  • Putting Vista in the fast lane

    Microsoft hopes to tackle an age-old problem with the next version of Windows: How to keep PCs running like new.

  • Microsoft offers development tools for Mac, Web

    Even as its steers developers toward the forthcoming edition of Windows, Microsoft is building tools to write applications for the Mac OS and the Web.

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