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Does Microsoft Need to Ship Windows 7 in 2009?

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Microsoft officially says it will ship the Windows 7 operating system within three years of the January 2007 consumer release of Windows Vista. But ...

Leopard One Year Later: 5 OS Lessons Learned

11/5/2008 11:16:16 AM

When Apple released Mac OS X 10.5, frequently referred to by its code name "Leopard," the company immediately had to deal with scattered technical ...

Five Reasons Why Skipping Windows Vista Could Backfire

10/22/2008 12:50:08 PM

Is Windows Vista really skippable? . . As organizations weigh what to do with Windows XP OS upgrades, the thought of leapfrogging the much-maligned ...

Why Windows Is Broken

4/9/2008 6:28:40 PM

In a session at the Gartner Emerging Trends conference today, analysts Neil MacDonald and Michael Silver identified many reasons that Windows (and ...

Live Office in Public Beta, But Still Offline

3/5/2008 8:30:46 PM

Following several announcements around its new software as a service (SaaS) strategy, Microsoft unveiled Live Office Workspace, a web-based ...

Vista SP1 Breaks Some Third-Party Apps

2/22/2008 10:05:14 PM

This week Microsoft gave Windows Vista haters more to fuel their dislike. . . Tuesday Microsoft pulled KB937287, an update meant to prepare Vista ...

With Vista SP1 in the Pipeline, Is Vista's Future Rosy?

2/14/2008 11:19:12 PM

Depending on who you are, the release of Vista Service Pack 1 may be a source of frustration or a cause for excitement.. . On February 11 ...

Vista Deployment Secrets

2/11/2008 11:12:53 AM

InfoWorld - Vista adoption in business has been slow (and at this writing more than 75,000 people have signed InfoWorld's petition asking Microsoft ...

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New York Goodbye, Clippy. Hello, smart tags. With much fanfare, including rock music and flashing lights, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates last ...