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08 November 2006
News: Linux switch costs Microsoft £230m

Microsoft will spend more than $440m in licensing fees and sales and marketing costs over the next five years to keep up its end of the historic Linux agreement it made with Novell
News: Dell switches to four-core chips

Dell will begin shipping its first servers and workstations running quad-core Intel processors in a two-socket configuration in the US next week
06 November 2006
News: Sony launches world's lightest laptop

Sony is launching what’s said to be the world’s lightest notebook as part of its bid to attract more business buyers in Japan. The Type G Vaio, which is expected to sell for around £990, weighs less than 2lbs.
News: Office 2007 ready for release

Microsoft has confirmed that it has completed work on Office 2007’s system code and released it to manufacturing.
News: 100m websites now online

The internet is now 100 million websites strong, with the growing number of blogs and small business sites given credit for huge growth this year by research firm Netcraft.
News: Vista cost savings exposed

As Microsoft prepares to release Windows Vista to manufacturing this week and make it available to corporate users at the end of the month, the debate is ratcheting up over how much money companies could save - if any - by upgrading to the new software.
02 November 2006
News: Microsoft announces Vista launch events

Microsoft has committed to launched Windows Vista and Office 2007 to businesses in Canada and the US on November 23 and November 30th respectively.
31 October 2006
News: Office Live to launch full version in two weeks

Microsoft's Office Live service is set to go out of beta in the US on November 15, and will eventually offer small businesses a chance to buy adverts from rival Google and others
30 October 2006
News: Amazon, Dell tops for PC hardware retailers

Amazon.com and Dell came out on top in Keynote Systems' rankings of US online computer hardware retailers for consistently providing a solid shopping experience
News: Vista delay sparks desktop sales plunge

Demand for desktop PC motherboards "is falling off a cliff" in late October as users put off purchases until the Windows Vista OS launches in January, according to investment banking firm Goldman Sachs
News: Microsoft offers free small-business software

Microsoft has turned its accounting suite for small businesses into two separate offerings, one of which users can download for at no cost
27 October 2006
News: Office gets unpopular piracy check

The mistrusted WGA antipiracy scheme spreads to Office 2007 as Microsoft wants you to validate all new products
26 October 2006
News: New delay for Windows Vista

The OS may not ship to businesses as planned after a new bug delays delivery to manufacturers
24 October 2006
News: McAfee hits back over Sophos slur

The Windows Vista security spat that's dividing Microsoft and security vendors continued today when McAfee responded to Sophos' claim that some software suppliers "hadn't coded their solutions" to work with Vista
News: AMD chief hands control to customers

The head of AMD is predicting a seismic shift in the balance of power in both the chip industry and the world of IT as a whole, with influence shifting from vendors to users
News: Dell commits to 'green' strategy

Michael Dell has recommitted his company to doing its best to save the planet by producing more energy-efficient products
23 October 2006
News: Sophos slams Vista's security critics

Security vendors McAfee and Symantec haven't given sufficient thought to Windows Vista when developing their products, according to antivirus firm Sophos.
21 October 2006
News: AMD to ship 65-nanometer chips

AMD is on schedule to deliver its first processors based on its advanced 65-nanometre manufacturing process in the fourth quarter of this year
20 October 2006
News: Critical patch for Windows 2000

A software security update released by Microsoft nine days ago to fix a flaw in Windows 2000 has been reissued after the company determined that the original patch didn't completely fix a security problem
19 October 2006
News: Microsoft slashes Windows piracy

Microsoft claims the combination of its controversial Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) tool and its “Feet on the Street” compliance team has slashed the number of pirate copies of Windows XP.