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• German court grants Motorola an injunction against Windows 7 and Xbox

  By Loek Essers | 02 May, 2012 21:33

  Motorola Mobility won an injunction on Wednesday preventing distribution of Microsoft products including Windows 7 and the Xbox in Germany, but it can't enforce the injunction yet. Microsoft will appeal the case and is confident it can keep doing business in Germany, the company said.

• Toyota Australia ramps up IT transformation projects

  By Hamish Barwick | 17 April, 2012 16:14

  Auto maker, Toyota Australia, is in the closing stages of a major IT modernisation initiative which will see the company replace data centre hardware, migrate to Windows 7 and iPad/iPhone trials.

• Will Windows 8 survive in the post-PC world?

  By Shane O'Neill | 04 April, 2012 04:11

  Try as it will to break through in the mobile space, Microsoft is still struggling to gain any ground with Windows Phone almost a year-and-a-half after its launch.

• Tech stories of 2011: Jobs, Android and Anonymous rank in top 10

  By Marc Ferranti | 14 December, 2011 03:32

  In 2011, the increasingly mobile and socially networked world of technology became more intertwined than ever with politics and the law. Patent wars shaped competition in tablets and smartphones, hacktivists attacked a widening array of political and corporate targets, repressive regimes unplugged citizens from the Internet, and the U.S. government moved to block the giant merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA. With the passing of Steve Jobs, the world lost a technology icon who redefined the computer, entertainment and consumer electronics industries. These are the IDG News Service's picks for the top 10 technology stories of the year:

• Microsoft to Windows XP: Please die, already

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 26 October, 2011 11:11

  Microsoft is eager for Windows XP, its 10-year-old operating system, to fade into computing history. The sooner the better, in fact. But for that to happen, the Redmond company needs millions of XP users to drop creaky, old XP and migrate (hopefully) to Windows 7, or even to Windows 8, which won't arrive until next year.

• Windows Intune 2.0: Four new features

  By Shane O'Neill | 18 October, 2011 08:04

  Windows Intune, Microsoft's Web-based PC management and security platform, may not get the same level of attention as cloud services like Office 365 or Windows Azure, but Microsoft is betting big on Intune to be the cloud service that will facilitate IT's evolving job of remotely managing PCs.

• Windows XP to Windows 8: Don't go there

  By Shane O'Neill | 22 September, 2011 07:17

  A majority of enterprises have migrated to Windows 7 or are planning to do so. But for Windows XP holdouts ready to side-step Windows 7 for the upcoming Windows 8 OS, you are risking a gap in support, stresses research firm Gartner in a new "first take" analysis of Windows 8 migration in the enterprise.

• Six big Windows 8 features for small business

  By Katherine Murray | 07 September, 2011 00:03

  With Microsoft's big BUILD conference right around the corner on September 12, people are buzzing about the Windows 8 news that's sure to come, and for the last couple of weeks, Microsoft has been parceling out information. So far, the features we’ve seen look colorful, fast, flashy, and flexible—but how much of a difference will they make for small business users?

• Gartner: 94% of new PCs will ship with Windows 7 in 2011

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 10 August, 2011 08:32

  The Apple Mac is steadily grabbing market share, but Windows-based systems continue to dominate the worldwide personal computer market, according to a new Gartner study.

• Windows 7 migrations: Don't get distracted by XP, Windows 8

  By Shane O'Neill | 10 August, 2011 09:03

  Enterprises planning a Windows OS migration are at a bit of a crossroads. There's a lot to consider.

• Internet Explorer gains among Windows 7 users, despite Microsoft's overall losses

  By Jon Brodkin | 02 August, 2011 03:41

  Microsoft's long and steady decline in browser market share continued in July, but there is one bright spot for Redmond: Among Windows 7 PC owners, Internet Explorer is gaining, albeit only slightly.

• Microsoft unveils touch-oriented Windows 8

  By James Niccolai | 02 June, 2011 13:42

  Microsoft showed Thursday the next version of its Windows OS at a press event in Taipei, unveiling a completely new tile-based interface that it hopes will be better suited for the emerging world of tablet PCs.

• 30 days with...Ubuntu Linux

  By Tony Bradley | 02 June, 2011 08:24

  30 days with...Ubuntu Linux: Day 1

• An old hard drive and OS in a new PC

  By Lincoln Spector | 27 May, 2011 01:21

  Terry Marshall asked if he could move his old hard drive, unchanged, to his new home-built PC, boot his existing, "very stable" XP installation, and skip Windows 7 altogether.

• Oklahoma City using SIEM to crack down on hackers - and wayward employees

  By Ellen Messmer | 27 May, 2011 03:41

  Oklahoma City is using technology that not only watches for signs of any hacker activity on its municipal government network, but monitors employee online behavior to assure no one's going out of bounds.