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• 01 May 2009

• News: Heavy demand crashes Windows 7 sites

  Subscribers of Microsoft's MSDN and TechNet services struggled to get Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) yesterday as heavy demand knocked the download sites offline.

• News: Acer suggests Windows 7 launching in October

  Windows 7 may be available as soon as October, according to an executive speaking at an Acer product launch

• 30 April 2009

• News: Windows XP for netbooks available until 2011

  Microsoft plans to continue offering Windows XP for netbooks for a year after the release of Windows 7

• 29 April 2009

• News: Office 2007 SP2 download supports ODF

  Microsoft Office 2007 users can now download Service Pack 2, marking a milestone in the company's document format battles with governments and other vendors

• News: Windows 7 to rescue Nvidia and ATI

  Graphics chip shipments fell during the first quarter this year, but could stabilise later this year as people look to upgrade PCs with new operating systems, according to Jon Peddie Research.

• 28 April 2009

• News: Windows 7 adds remote streaming tool

  A leaked version of the Windows 7 Release Candidate contains a lot of minor tweaks to previous beta versions of the new operating system, but Microsoft says that it also has a couple of new features. As well as support for a virtual Windows XP environment, a Windows 7 PC will now be able to stream media from your home to any internet-connected Windows 7 PC.

• 27 April 2009

• News: Microsoft reveals Windows 7 'XP mode'

  Microsoft is planning a Windows 7 add-on that lets users run applications designed for Windows XP in a virtual machine - the first time Microsoft has relied on virtualization to provide backward compatibility.

• News: Windows 7 RC1 coming this week

  A near-final version of Windows 7 will be available to some developers from Thursday, Microsoft has announced.

• 25 April 2009

• News: 10 things we hate about technology now

  What do we really hate about technology? Here's my current top 10 list.

• News: The 15 best BlackBerry apps

  We've put together the 15 best apps from RIM's app store BlackBerry App World. These apps will help you have fun and be more productive at the same time.

• News: Is Microsoft losing the open source battle?

  In terms of open source, we're never sure if Microsoft is friend or foe. We look at just whether Microsoft is winning its battle against open source.

• News: The 11 best Adobe AIR apps

  We've picked out the 11 best cross-platform apps based on Adobe AIR technology that will help you streamline your YouTube experience, track client time accurately, stitch photos into one panoramic shot, and much more.

• News: Analysis: explaining the fuss over The Pirate Bay

  Last week, the four owners of Swedish BitTorrent search engine The Pirate Bay were found guilty of copyright crimes and sentenced to a year in prision. But just what did they do wrong? We investigate the issues with file sharing and BitTorrents.

• News: 10 times the web got it seriously wrong

  Don't believe everything you read on the web. We've rounded up the internet's 10 biggest howlers.

• 24 April 2009

• News: Windows 7 hack opens OS to attackers

  Security researchers demonstrated how to take control of a computer running Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system at the Hack In The Box Security Conference (HITB) in Dubai on Thursday.

• News: Microsoft sales decline for first time

  Microsoft's Windows profits fell for the third quarter in the row, while profits from its Office productivity suite fell for the second straight quarter

• 23 April 2009

• News: Firefox 3.5 will be released this week

  Mozilla still expects to release Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 sometime later this week, despite not having specified an exact date.

• News: Microsoft: PAYG could kill software piracy

  Microsoft could reduce losses from software piracy by expanding pay-as-you-go plans like those it has tested in developing countries, according to a company executive.

• 21 April 2009

• News: 80% of businesses unconcerned by cloud security

  Over 80 percent of businesses that are using cloud computing service providers aren't assessing how these firms ensure the data is kept private, says Deloitte.

• News: Google launches new search tools

  Google has unveiled two new tools will make searching the web for information and images easier.

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