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• 12 June 2009

• News: Microsoft strips Internet Explorer from Windows 7

  Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer in Europe, in an effort by Microsoft to offer the product on time and without running afoul of competitive regulations

• 11 June 2009

• News: HP PCs come with Norton Online Backup trial

  Symantec is offering a 30-day free trial of its Norton Online Backup service to HP customers.

• News: Free Microsoft antivirus 'coming soon'

  A beta version of Microsoft's free antivirus software - codenamed Morro - will soon be available from the company's website

• News: Symantec & McAfee fined over auto-renewals

  Antivirus vendors Symantec and McAfee have agreed to pay the New York Attorney General's office $375,000 in fines to settle charges that they automatically charged customers software subscription renewal fees without their permission.

• News: Microsoft confirms June 30 demise for Money

  Microsoft Money, the software giant's financial management software, will no longer be available from the end of June.

• 10 June 2009

• News: Mozilla offers Firefox 3.5 preview

  Mozilla has made a preview of its next web browser Firefox 3.5 available to 800,000 Firefox 3.5 beta testers, instead of a release candidate , which had been expected.

• News: Monster Microsoft update fixes 18 critical bugs

  Microsoft has issued 10 security updates patching a record 31 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Excel, Word, Windows Search and other programs, including 18 bugs marked 'critical'

• News: Critical fixes for Adobe Reader & Acrobat

  Adobe has released critical security patches, fixing 13 bugs in its Reader and Acrobat software.

• 09 June 2009

• News: Snow Leopard to cost £19 at September UK launch

  Apple's forthcoming Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system upgrade will cost just £19 when it's released in September.

• News: Apple shows Snow Leopard performance gains

  Laptops and desktops could see software performance gains with parallel programming tools built into Apple's new operating system, Mac OS X 10.6, which was introduced by the company on Monday.

• 08 June 2009

• News: Twitter launches 'verified account' service

  Micro-blogging service Twitter has unveiled a beta version of its much-talked about 'verified accounts' service.

• News: Bing gains traction in UK search market

  Microsoft's new Bing search engine appears to be gaining traction in the UK. But Google remains the leader by a massive margin, according to online market share analysts at Hitwise.

• News: Microsoft Bing more popular than Yahoo

  Despite only being launched this month, Microsoft's Bing has already overtaken Yahoo in the search market, says StatCounter Global Stats.

• News: Russia launches Windows XP antitrust case

  Russian antitrust regulators are investigating Microsoft's retirement of Windows XP and could file formal charges as early as next month, according to a government statement on Thursday.

• News: Opera Mobile 9.7 launches in beta

  Opera software has made the beta version of its latest mobile browser Opera Mobile 9.7 publicly available.

• News: Google Android the star of Computex 2009

  Netbooks, smartbooks, CULV laptops and other gadgets captured widespread attention last week at the Computex Taipei 2009 tradeshow.

• News: Cut-price Windows 7 'to cost only £60'

  Windows 7 could retail for only $100 - around £60 - according to calculations based on Microsoft's earlier Windows Vista cost-cutting move.

• 06 June 2009

• News: Unix celebrates its 40th birthday

  It was 40 years ago this summer that Ken Thompson, a programmer at AT&T subsidiary Bell Laboratories, wrote one of the most important pieces of software ever created - Unix.

• News: Microsoft Bing versus Google & Yahoo

  We compare top features of three search engines - Bing, Google, and Yahoo to find out which is best.

• 05 June 2009

• News: Google Chrome for Mac and Linux launched

  Google has released a developer-only version of its Google Chrome browser for Mac and Linux systems.

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