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• 07 August 2009

• News: Free PDF reader Foxit hits 70m downloads

  Foxit Reader, a free PDF-reading knockoff of Adobe Systems Inc.'s free Adobe Reader, has won what its maker estimates is 70 million users worldwide because of its speed and light weight.

• News: Twitter DOS attack targeted Georgian blogger

  The denial of service (DOS) attacks which targeted Twitter, Facebook, Blogger and LiveJournal yesterday may have targeted just one individual

• News: Microsoft to launch Office.com?

  Microsoft has acquired the office.com domain from a Brussels-based company, according to searches of Internet registration records.

• News: Microsoft working with nVidia on Windows 7 graphics

  Microsoft is trying to improve the visuals in Windows 7 by working with hardware makers on a software interface that maximizes the use of graphics cards.

• 06 August 2009

• News: Microsoft 'ballot screen' coming to Office 2010

  Microsoft has revealed it will give Office users the chance to vote for the default file format to be used by its Office 2010 suite

• News: Microsoft investigates 'critical' Windows 7 bug

  Microsoft's Windows Division president Steven Sinofsky tried Wednesday to tamp down a growing roar that Windows 7 RTM has a critical flaw that can shut down the OS by running a simple command.

• 05 August 2009

• News: Windows 7 'XP Mode' available for download

  Microsoft has released the final beta of Windows 7 XP Mode, adding new USB and drive sharing support options along with a user tutorial for the operating system add-on aimed at the small and midsize business market.

• News: Microsoft finally admits Linux is a threat to Windows

  Microsoft for the first time has named Linux distributors Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to its Windows client business in its annual filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

• 04 August 2009

• News: Tutorial: Master blogging guide

  Dale Carnegie’s bestselling self-help book How To Win Friends and Influence People could have been written with blogging in mind. A well-designed blog can be an effective way to reach out to the world, strike up friendships and sway opinion.

• News: Tutorial: Set up Ubuntu Linux on a Windows PC

  With the average netbook struggling to run Vista, we reckon Ubuntu Linux is a more suitable operating system. Here, we explain how to install it on your Windows machine.

• News: Amazon: Mac OS X 10.6 sells faster than Windows 7

  Pre-orders for Apple's upcoming Snow Leopard operating system topped Amazon.com's bestseller list yesterday, just days after the online retail giant put Mac OS X 10.6 on its site.

• News: Schmidt exit won't stop FTC Google, Apple probe

  The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revealed it will continue its investigation into whether Apple and Google violated antitrust laws by sharing two directors, despite the fact that Google CEO Eric Schmidt resigned from Apple's Board of Directors yesterday.

• 03 August 2009

• News: Chrome may overtake Safari in browser popularity

  Google's Chrome is hot on the heels Apple's Safari when it comes to claiming the position as the third most popular web browser, says Net Applications.

• News: Windows 7 upgrade rip-off for UK customers

  Windows 7 users upgrading to a more powerful version of the operating system will be charged more than twice as much in Britain as in the US in some cases, Microsoft has revealed.

• 02 August 2009

• News: Microsoft ditches plans for Windows 7 E editions

  Betting that European antitrust regulators will okay its proposal for a web browser 'ballot screen', Microsoft has abandoned plans to ship Windows 7 without Internet Explorer

• 01 August 2009

• News: 50 low-cost upgrades to recharge your PC

  PC Advisor outlines 50 low-cost upgrades that will boost your PC, from raw speed and graphics performance to wireless, printing and multimedia.

• 31 July 2009

• News: Half of businesses want greater IT understanding

  Over half of business owners are trying to gain a greater understanding of the IT services they use in a bid to slash costs, says Fasthosts.

• News: Free Windows 7 Ultimate for beta testers

  Microsoft made a U-turn today and announced that it would hand out free copies of Windows 7 Ultimate to the initiation-only testers who received the very earliest builds of the OS last year.

• 30 July 2009

• News: Semantic search engine Yebol takes on Google, Bing

  Following the recent launch of Microsoft's Bing, along with products such as Wolfram Alpha, another search engine has entered the market, hoping to take on Google by delivering 'human-like' results. Yebol.com launched yesterday, and uses semantic-search technology to deliver categorised results.

• 29 July 2009

• News: Microsoft, Yahoo ink Bing deal

  Microsoft and Yahoo have reached agreement on an online search and advertising deal.

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