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• 10 August 2007

• News: Microsoft launches free Windows Live Skydrive

  Microsoft has renamed and relaunched its free online storage service as Windows Live Skydrive, making several interface tweaks to the beta preview that’s now open to anyone.

• 09 August 2007

• News: Boot Camp 1.4 boosts Windows support on Macs

  Apple has released a new version of its Boot Camp software which allows Intel-based Mac users to install the Windows XP or Windows Vista (32bit) alongside Mac OS X operating systems.

• News: Windows Vista snubbed by 2008 Olympics

  The organisers of the 2008 Olympic Games have snubbed Windows Vista in favour of Windows XP, while wireless networking won't even play a supporting role in at the event in Beijing.

• 08 August 2007

• News: Dell laptops backlog caused by paint woes

  Dell has told frustrated US customers that paint is to blame the long delays to the release of its top-of-the-line XPS M1330 laptops.

• News: Lenovo plans Packard Bell acquisition

  Lenovo has announced plans to acquire European PC maker Packard Bell. If it goes through, the deal would be a disappointment for Lenovo rival Acer, which reportedly was also trying to buy Packard Bell.

• News: Windows Vista SP1 preview released

  Microsoft has released pre-beta code to two forthcoming Windows service packs to testers, but the company continues to remain vague about when the final code for Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista SP1 will make it to end users

• 07 August 2007

• News: £350 premium for Sony Vaio with flash HD

  Sony is charging a $700 (£350) extra for a Vaio laptop with a flash memory-based hard-drive offering 68GB less storage than an alternative with a traditional hard-disk.

• News: Lenovo to ship Suse Linux Thinkpads

  Models in Lenovo’s Thinkpad laptop line will be preloaded with Linux for the first time later this year.

• News: Dell launches Linux PCs in the UK

  Dell has launched two PCs in Europe with Ubuntu 7.04 Linux factory installed.

• News: Lenovo to sell Novell Linux laptop PCs

  Lenovo Group is to ship Thinkpad laptops preloaded with Linux. Lenovo will use Novell Linux in the Thinkpad laptops, due for release in the fourth quarter of this year, Novell and Lenovo announced yesterday.

• 03 August 2007

• News: Parallels adds iPhone support on Vista & XP

  Parallels has released a new public beta of Parallels Desktop for Mac that supports the iPhone in Windows XP and Vista while running on your Mac.

• 02 August 2007

• News: Mac OS X 'Leopard' wins Unix certification

  Apple’s soon-to-be-released Mac OS X ‘Leopard’ operating system has been awarded Unix 03 certification by The Open Group.

• 31 July 2007

• News: Leaked Vista hotfixes point to SP1 release

  Speculation about the imminent availability of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) has started again after two substantial collections of Windows Vista hotfixes leaked to the internet

• News: Defensive trade group dismisses death of Firewire

  Consumer and PC products will exhibit "solid and consistent growth" of FireWire-equipped consumer and PC products, despite a recent report predicting the death of Fireware.

• 27 July 2007

• News: New AMD roadmap reveals 16-core chips

  AMD has provided a preview of its processor roadmap, revealing details of new quad-core processors and plans for a family of server chips with 16 cores.

• News: EC accuses Intel in anti-trust scandal

  Intel has been accused of abusing its dominant position in the microprocessor market to exclude its rival AMD, in breach of European antitrust rules.

• News: Windows Vista ships 60 millionth copy

  Microsoft is claiming bragging rights over Apple with the announcement that it’s shipped 60 million copies of Windows Vista.

• 25 July 2007

• News: Could Windows 7 use touchscreen tech?

  Windows Vista's successor – Windows 7 – is scheduled to be with us in 2010, and analysts are already speculating about the new features Microsoft will introduce

• 24 July 2007

• News: Intel ups AMD battle with even cheaper chips

  Intel has slashed chip prices on a handful of microprocessors after the company's battle to retake market share from rival AMD took a turn for the worse.

• News: Acer slams 'unstable' Windows Vista

  Windows Vista is riddled with problems and gives users and businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to a report in the Financial Times Deutschland quoting Acer president Gianfranco Lanci.

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