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• Yahoo to upgrade email

  By AAP | 24 May, 2011 15:26

  Yahoo Inc is giving its popular email service a long-promised facelift in an attempt to make it more appealing to people who are increasingly using Facebook, Twitter, Google and other online alternatives to communicate.

• How the FBI's CIO is upgrading the agency's technology

  By Maryfran Johnson | 03 February, 2011 10:00

  You could probably guess most of the FBI's top 10 priorities, listed on the agency's website in the "about us" section. The first nine run the gamut from combating violent crime and terrorist threats to protecting civil rights. But the 10th one might surprise you. It says, "Upgrade technology to successfully perform the FBI's mission." That one falls to the agency's CIO, Chad Fulgham.

• Windows Mobile apps won't work on new phones

  By Nancy Gohring | 08 March, 2010 06:19

  While Microsoft still isn't commenting on whether current Windows Mobile phones will be upgradeable to its new Windows Phone 7 software, it has finally officially revealed that existing applications won't work on the new platform.

• Goldman Sachs: Windows 7 Upgrades to Fuel IT Spending

  By Shane O'Neill | 14 December, 2009 05:07

  Goldman Sachs' latest IT spending survey forecasts modest overall growth in the coming year, with pent-up demand for new hardware such as servers and PCs stimulating an increase in Windows 7 upgrades.

• Microsoft makes case for upgrade to Exchange 2010

  By Jeremy Kirk | 10 November, 2009 08:13

  Microsoft is emphasizing the potentially money-saving features of Exchange 2010, the latest revamp of its e-mail application officially released Monday at its TechEd European customer conference in Berlin.

• Microsoft rallies businesses to start Win 7 migrations now

  By Elizabeth Montalbano | 15 September, 2009 05:17

  In a last promotional run-up to the Windows 7 release next month, Microsoft is urging business customers to start their upgrades now with examples of customers already using the software, and another acknowledgement that the company learned lessons from how it handled Vista's release three years ago.

• Linux kernel 2.6.31 released, driver code climbs

  By Rodney Gedda | 11 September, 2009 10:30

  The Linux kernel project has release version 2.6.31, bringing a multitude of changes to memory management, performance, file systems and device drivers, according to project founder Linus Torvalds.

• Microsoft starts serving IE8 upgrade to enterprises

  By Gregg Keizer | 27 August, 2009 06:25

  As promised more than a month ago, Microsoft began pushing Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) to enterprises yesterday via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).

• Infor rolls out new 'Flex' upgrade policy

  By Chris Kanaracus | 23 June, 2009 04:02

  ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Infor on Monday is announcing the Infor Flex, a program it says will make it logistically and financially easier for customers to upgrade or switch to other Infor products.