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Images: Touring Google's Chrome browser
News Chrome rethinks traditional browser architecture, borrowing from Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and even Opera. As with Firefox 3 and Microsoft IE8 beta 2, Chrome autocompletes URLs you type based, in part, on your...
Tags: browsing, bookmarks, bookmark, beta
5 September 2008, 9:13
Google plans Chrome for Mac and Linux
News Despite Chrome's Windows heritage, Google is already promising that the Mac and Linux versions of the browser will be designed for the platforms they run on, rather than a recreation of the Microsoft version.
Tags: linux, platforms, chrome, released
4 September 2008, 9:27
Microsoft may launch apps store for Windows Mobile
News Earlier this year, Microsoft released version 6.1 of the Windows Mobile operating system. It looks as though Microsoft is joining Apple and Google in the mobile 'apps store' market. Responsibility for the business model and key elements that will...
Tags: sales, cross, surfing, cent
1 September 2008, 10:56
News.blog: Microsoft's Flickr rights shockr
News Microsoft has always been rather strident on the topic of copyright infringement, as you may have noticed. Update: Selby, Blessed and Lumley are all still judges, Microsoft just told us. They still refuse to explain how they (Microsoft) screwed up...
Tags: imaging, photographs, rights, marketing
13 August 2008, 8:56
Windows to be replaced by Midori?
News Microsoft Windows' future appears to lie in 'the cloud', with details emerging about a possible new Web-based operating system from Redmond, called 'Midori'. Microsoft is refusing to comment on the new OS, saying Midori is one of many incubation...
Tags: os, hardware, cloud, research
6 August 2008, 8:47
Could 64-bit Vista finally be taking off?
News After several fits and starts, Microsoft finally released a 64-bit version of Windows XP in the fall of 2005. In a blog post this week, Microsoft's Chris Flores noted that 20 per cent of new Windows Vista PCs in the US that connected to Windows...
Tags: desktops, cent, models, gaming
5 August 2008, 9:19
News.blog: Microsoft quiet before iPhone 3G day
News For years, Microsoft has had an open platform with Windows I asked Horn if he thought it was important to have a Microsoft version of the App Store right on Windows Mobile devices. On the browsing front, Microsoft has pledged to improve things...
Tags: noise, browsing, developers, windows mobile
11 July 2008, 9:01
Ending an era with Bill Gates' best quotes
News We will never make a 32-bit operating system.until Microsoft launched the 32-bit OS, Windows NT 3.1 in 1993, that is (speaking at the launch of MSX in 1989). Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past.
Tags: industry, speech, magazine, cnet news
27 June 2008, 9:00
Asus Eee Box ready for August release
News Eee Box also serves as a reminder of Microsoft's latest concession regarding the extended availability of Windows XP. The cut-off date for sales of the operating system is 30 June, after which customers are supposed to buy Vista instead, but...
Tags: linux, box, operating system, xp
23 June 2008, 9:09
News.blog: WWDC set to be big for Apple
News Microsoft recently said it wants to get the next version of Windows out by the end of 2009. Web business next week at the Worldwide Developers Conference -- and we think there might be a new iPhone, too.
Tags: wi fi, mac os, community, jobs
6 June 2008, 9:35
Microsoft gives XP new life on low-cost desktops
News Microsoft has announced that manufacturers will be able to sell Windows on so-called 'nettops' -- that is, low-cost desktops -- in another move that looks set to keep XP alive for several years yet. At the Computex trade fair in Taiwan this week...
Tags: pcs, desktops, xp, laptops
5 June 2008, 9:28
News.blog: Acer favours Linux for mini laptops
News The reason is because of the cost and operation of Microsoft's operating system over open-source Linux. We have shifted towards Linux because of Microsoft," said Microsoft has a lot of power and it is going to be difficult, but we will be working...
Tags: linux, market, laptops, develop
5 June 2008, 8:56
Mac cloners offer software updates
News Last August, for instance, Microsoft forced offline a Windows Update alternative called AutoPatcher. Psystar, a Florida-based company that last month began selling generic PCs with Apple's Mac OS X operating system pre-installed in the US, has...
Tags: mac os, operating system, pre, automatic updates
29 May 2008, 8:50
News.blog: Windows 7 gets multi-touch
News Microsoft plans to add multi-touch interface to Windows 7, top executives announced on Tuesday at The Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California. Microsoft corporate vice president Julie Larson-Green demonstrated...
Tags: multi, technology, rotating, steve ballmer
28 May 2008, 7:31
Mozilla: Final Firefox 3 expected in June
News Although the latter still dominates the market, Firefox has helped to reignite the browser wars to an extent: Microsoft is investing more resources in IE development, Apple has brought its own Safari to Windows, and Apple and Google are among...
Tags: ons, mozilla, firefox, handle
22 May 2008, 11:17
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Format wars: The tech that should have won
Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed
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