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• VGA, DVI display interfaces to bow out in five years

  By Agam Shah | 20 January, 2012 06:58

  Legacy VGA (Video Graphics Array) and DVI (digital-visual interface) display ports will likely no longer be used in PCs over the next five years as newer interfaces gain in popularity, NPD In-Stat said in a study released on Thursday.

• Microsoft confirms app store in Windows 8

  By Gregg Keizer | 19 August, 2011 03:24

  Microsoft has begun talking about Windows 8 in general terms, reprising a blog-based strategy that it used in the year-long run-up to Windows 7.

• iPad cannibalization talk crazy, says analyst

  By Gregg Keizer | 11 May, 2011 02:43

  Apple's iPad hasn't materially affected consumer PC sales, as some have claimed, a research firm said today.

• Apple failed to move hardware bar with iPad 2, say experts

  By Gregg Keizer | 03 March, 2011 08:07

  By the time that Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrapped up today's launch of a revamped iPad, analysts were already calling it "incremental" and pointing out that it the new tablet delivers "no surprises."

• Apple sales set for bounce with expected MacBook refresh

  By Gregg Keizer | 24 February, 2011 05:33

  Apple's Mac sales are up more than 20 per cent this quarter compared to the same quarter last year, and the company will get a further bump when it refreshes its MacBook line, an analyst said today. That refresh could come this week.

• Microsoft's Ballmer touts Windows 7's big holiday

  By Gregg Keizer | 08 January, 2010 08:21

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer bragged up Windows 7 success last night in his keynote speech at CES.