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• 16 July 2009

• News: Windows 7 demand crashes Microsoft site

  Microsoft's European online store crashed yesterday under the load from customers eager to grab discounted copies of Windows 7

• 15 July 2009

• News: Microsoft fixes 9 bugs in Patch Tuesday

  Microsoft has delivered six new security updates, patching nine vulnerabilities.

• News: Windows 7 pummels Vista pre-order sales

  Windows 7 has surged to the top of Amazon.co.uk's software chart, just hours after the new operating system became available for pre-order

• News: Gates and Ballmer bash Google Chrome OS

  Microsoft bigwigs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have broken their silence on Google's Chrome OS, with separate attacks questioning the capabilities of the new platform

• News: Office Web apps provides licensing headache

  Microsoft promoted more of its web-based software offerings at its Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans this week, but some analysts say the company's enterprise licensing terms provide little incentive for large customers to move away from its on-premise products.

• 14 July 2009

• News: One in six internet users responds to spam

  About one in six consumers have at some time acted on a spam message, affirming the economic incentive for spammers to keep churning out millions of obnoxious pitches per day, according to a survey.

• News: Apple's App Store racks up 1.5bn downloads

  Apple has revealed more than 1.5 billion applications have been downloaded from its iTunes App Store in its first year of operation.

• News: Microsoft gives older handsets access to app store

  Microsoft has revealed that it will be making its mobile phone app store, Windows Marketplace for Mobile, available to owners of handsets running Windows Mobile versions 6.0 and 6.1.

• News: £49 Windows 7 pre-release sale starts tonight

  Microsoft Windows 7 - the software giant's latest desktop and laptop PC operating system - is available for pre-sale order tonight. A limited number of Windows 7 licences will be available on a first come first serve bases at a special cut-price rate.

• News: Stonehenge to appear on Google Street View

  Stonehenge has been revealed as the first UK tourist attraction that will be photographed for Google's Street View.

• News: Microsoft offers technical preview of Office 2010

  At its Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, Microsoft yesterday released a preview of Office 2010 and Visio 2010 to all attendees as part of a Technical Preview program.

• News: Microsoft admits yet another ActiveX zero-day bug

  Microsoft is warning users that hackers are exploiting another unpatched, critical bug in a company-made ActiveX control, putting people running Internet Explorer (IE) at risk for the second time in a week.

• News: Microsoft working on patch for new zero-day vulnerability

  Microsoft has revealed it is working on a patch for a zero-day vulnerability in its Office Web Components, which are used for publishing spreadsheets, charts and databases to the web.

• News: Windows 7 available September 7 - to business users

  Microsoft yesterday revealed that business customers can start ordering Windows 7 beginning September 7, slightly ahead of the general release of the OS on October 22.

• News: Microsoft: 'no Windows 7 RTM just yet'

  In response to rumours that the company was about to declare "release to manufacturing," or RTM, of the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system, Microsoft last night denied that it has finished the OS and said it would go to the RTM stage as planned later this month.

• 13 July 2009

• News: O2 turns on Twitter for all users

  UK iPhone carrier O2 has teamed up with Twitter to turn Twitter updates into free text messages for @ replies and direct messages.

• News: 60% of businesses won't upgrade to Windows 7

  Six out of ten businesses won't upgrade to Windows 7 , says ScriptLogic.

• News: LG to open app store

  LG is the latest in a long-line of mobile phone manufacturers to launch its own app store.

• News: Microsoft Silverlight 3 officially launches

  Microsoft last week officially launched its Microsoft Silverlight 3 platform.

• News: Dell: we'll look at Google Chrome OS

  Dell last week said it would consider testing Google's upcoming Google Chrome OS operating system. But Dell is not prepared to commit to offering the Linux-based OS in future products.

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