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• Windows on verge of dropping below 90% market share

  By Jon Brodkin | 14 January, 2011 09:15

  Windows is on the verge of dropping below 90% market share, with smartphones and tablets posing an increasingly serious threat to Microsoft's dominance of the operating system market.

• Patch Tuesday defined by the flaws that aren't fixed

  By Tony Bradley | 12 January, 2011 06:34

  Microsoft is easing in to 2011 with a light Patch Tuesday for January. There are only two security bulletins this month, and only one of those two is rated as Critical by Microsoft.

• ARM CEO: PC market not our target

  By Agam Shah | 12 January, 2011 05:41

  Chip design firm ARM grabbed the spotlight at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week when Microsoft announced that its new Windows OS would work on the ARM architecture. ARM processors go into most of the world's smartphones and tablets, and with Windows support, the company can now focus on the wider market for PCs, where it has virtually no presence. Nvidia also announced that it was building its first ARM-based chip, code-named Denver, for PCs and servers.

• Asus unveils three tablets and a slate

  By Jason Cross | 05 January, 2011 12:32

  At CES 2011 today, Asus announced three new Android tablets and a Windows 7 based slate PC. The tablets, all Android-based, go by the moniker "Eee Pad" while the Windows 7 device is called an "Eee Slate." Each one offers some unique features, from stylus input options to sliding keyboards or docking stations. Unfortunately, we don't yet have exact shipping dates or prices for the Android tablets, and the Eee Slate looks to be fairly pricey.

• First look: Internet Explorer 9 beta makes waves

  By Peter Wayner | 17 September, 2010 02:56

  One of the best ways to see what's changed with the ninth and newest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer is to tune into beautyoftheweb.com and watch the words, images, and DIVs bounce around, luring the world into pretty images and information that can't sit still. "Tune in" is the appropriate verb because the experience is closer to consuming television than what the Web was once supposed to be, an endless library filled with serious knowledge that might come from an underground physics bunker in the mountains.

• Is Linux really harder to use?

  By Katherine Noyes | 03 August, 2010 08:17

  Not surprisingly, the misperception that Linux is harder to use than other operating systems is also one that competing vendors routinely use to scare potential new users away from Linux.

• Microsoft, get back to work!

  By Tony Bradley | 31 July, 2010 04:13

  Steve Ballmer assured analysts and the world that Microsoft is hard at work developing a Windows 7-based tablet to compete with devices like the Apple iPad.

• Windows 7 Migration: Five Real Challenges & Lessons Learned

  By Shane O'Neill | 23 July, 2010 08:19

  Windows 7 momentum is slowly but surely spilling over into the corporate world as long-frozen tech budgets begin to thaw and new PCs are purchased.

• Asus tablet: Hello Android, bye Windows?

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 21 July, 2010 04:26

  Beyond Apple's iPad, the tablet computer market is a murky place inhabited largely by vaporware.

• Google Chrome OS: Five big obstacles in the Windows war

  By Shane O'Neill | 10 July, 2009 00:18

  Google announced yesterday that it has an open-source operating system for PCs in development that shares the same name as the company's browser: Chrome.

• Blog: Android netbooks will fall to Windows stronghold, Linux indifference

  By Shane O'Neill | 09 June, 2009 11:34

  Should Microsoft be scared about Google expanding its mobile OS Android to netbooks? Well, how scared can a company be when it owns 98 percent market share of something?