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Windows 7 Sales Are Great (Just Like Vista Sales In 2007)

4:20PM Dan Nosowitz | March, 2007: Windows Vista’s initial sales are great, “more than doubling” those of its predecessor, Windows XP. Flash forward to November, 2009: Windows 7 initial sales are 234 per cent higher than Vista’s. Those numbers sound awfully similar… More »
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This Week’s Best iPhone Apps

11:30AM John Herrman | In this week’s charmingly tawdry app roundup: Voices, creepily modulated! Annoying trips to Kinkos, averted! Cats, artfully superimposed! Photos, easily shared! iPhone speakers, blown! Call of Duty, iPhone’d! Google Maps, humiliated! Certifiably good games, discounted! And more… More »
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Windows 8 Expected In 2012 According To Roadmap

10:29AM Rosa Golijan | Apparently we won’t have to deal with upgrading our Microsoft-driven computers for another three years. According to a tentative roadmap, the next version of the OS, Windows 8, won’t be arriving until 2012. More »
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There Can Only Be One: Part Duex

8:40AM John Herrman | App developers have it hard enough on the iPhone; on Android, they’ve got to keep prices just as low, and sell to a much smaller audience. So how are some of them coping? By packing up and leaving, like Gameloft. More »
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Microsoft Denies Programming Backdoors For NSA In Windows 7

5:32AM Mark Wilson | Hey now! Just because the NSA helped Microsoft hone the security of Windows 7 doesn’t mean Microsoft designed special backdoors for the organisation to spy on us… right? More »
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Sometimes, Dreams Come True

3:40AM Jesus Diaz | In 2007 I whined and whined asking for an iPhone Software Developer’s Kit. Back then I asked for five apps. It took two years, but today I’ve got them all. The last one just came in yesterday. More »
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Microsoft, You Can’t Win By Coming In Last Place

12:22AM Mark Wilson | I know Microsoft has only recently broken ground on Internet Explorer 9, but why would you ever release a graph in which you were the admitted worst at a task? More »
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Intel Atom’s Snow Leopard Compatibility Re-Hacked

5:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Apple, understandably, broke Atom support in its latest 10.6.2 update for Snow Leopard — but that’s not going to keep enterprising Hackintoshers from finding a workaround. More »
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Get Google Chrome OS, Now

4:19PM Dan Nosowitz | Wow, that was fast. Google Chrome OS was only unveiled today, and it’s already compiled as a VMWare image ready for download via torrents and gdgt. Techcrunch also has a tutorial for setting it up. More »
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The NSA Helped Microsoft Improve Windows 7 Security

11:40AM Rosa Golijan | While some of us are likely to associate the US National Security Agency (NSA) with daydreams of espionage, the organisation is also highly involved in improving security standards in software. They’ve even consulted with Microsoft during the development of Windows 7. More »