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It is hardly surprising to discover that a new alternative mechanism to “E” (referred to as a “consumer ballot screen”) may become accepted by the EU commission. I’d imagine that the EU have realised that without a browser at all you really are in trouble! Taken from the Europa site: Antitrust: Commission welcomes new Microsoft proposals on […]

Friday, July 24th, 2009 at 21:12 | 0 comments
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Living inside the EU? Want to run an Internet browser on Windows 7? (of course you do) If the answer is YES then you were probably hoping for Microsoft to invent some sort of clever mechanism for you to add your chosen browser (in my case Internet Explorer 8). Unfortunately this does not appear to be the […]

Thursday, July 16th, 2009 at 09:14 | 0 comments
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In the public spotlight Apple continuously mocks Microsoft’s laptops hunters campaign. However Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s COO uncovered that privately this is not the case! In a recent statement made at the Worldwide Partner Conference he stated, “And so we’ve been running these PC value ads. Just giving people saying, hey, what are you looking to spend? “Oh, […]

Thursday, July 16th, 2009 at 09:03 | 0 comments
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Windows 7 information is just flying in right now, the latest is more news on Windows 7 E (the EU version that has no web browser), ridiculous if you ask me! So how is this going to be delivered and what do you do if you want to add a browser if you don’t have […]

Monday, July 13th, 2009 at 18:21 | 0 comments
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The blogosphere is going nuts about Google’s recent announcement to launch a Netbook friendly OS aka Google Chrome OS. Personally I don’t get what the deal is about, from what I can tell from the leaked picture below this is just another variant of Linux, like Asus’s Xandros and as we all know it didn’t […]

Thursday, July 9th, 2009 at 14:07 | 0 comments
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Neowin reports: Wzor is claiming that the final sign off is set for July 13th. According to a translation, this is the final roadmap for Windows 7: FINAL ROADMAP FOR WINDOWS 7 [CLIENT-SERVER]: 6/1 – 6/19 BUILDING RTM ESCROW – already assembled RTM ESCROW. 6/22 – 7/10 RTM RECALL – assembly and search for candidates […]

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 06:10 | 0 comments
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