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Microsoft's new ARM-enabled Window 8 operating system is expected to spur a new breed of low-cost laptops, according to market analyst firm iHS iSuppli, possibly stealing almost a quarter of the laptop market share from Intel. Link Removed

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Tuesday praised the widespread adoption of his company’s desktop operating system, saying it has now sold more than 400 million Windows 7 licenses. However, Ballmer acknowledged Microsoft’s struggles in the mobile phone market, where the company’s...

Update to proper, working Vista! We call it 'Windows 7' Microsoft is once again trying to bump the 10 per cent market share of people and businesses still lumbered with the company's unloved Windows Vista over to its latest operating system.… Free Whitepaper: Implementing Energy Efficient Data...

Windows 7 is adding users like Facebook. Today, Microsoft has reminded us again of its dominance, reporting that it has sold 400 million licenses for the OS in the 20 or so months since its debut. This comes about three months after the April news that sales had breached 350 million and...

Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer used his Worldwide Partners Conference keynote on Monday to tout Windows 7's success while trying to downplay the success of the Mac. The most recent OS had now reached 400 million licenses sold, up from 350 million in the winter and still growing faster than XP. He...

Internet Explorer continues to lose market share overall, but Internet Explorer 9 is on the rise--especially for Windows 7 users. More...

Internet Explorer continues to lose market share overall, but Internet Explorer 9 is on the rise--especially for Windows 7 users. Link Removed

IDC recently came out with a smartphone market forecast report, in which it indicated that Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL ) share in the global smartphone market could decline from 18.2% in 2011 to 16.9% Link Removed - Invalid URL

And Macs now account for 1-in-10 corporate computers, says Forrester Link Removed - Invalid URL

Although enterprises are in the midst of migrating more machines to Microsoft's Windows 7, the aged Windows XP still accounts for nearly 6-in-10 PCs in corporations, according to a recent report by research firm Forrester. read more Link Removed

Although enterprises are in the midst of migrating more machines to Microsoft's Windows 7, the aged Windows XP still accounts for nearly 6 in 10 PCs in corporations, according to a recent report by research firm Forrester. Windows 7 powered nearly 21 percent of all business PCs used to reach...

Windows 7 has doubled its presence in enterprises over the past year, though Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser appears to on the decline, according to a study by Forrester Research. Link Removed

By the end of March 2011, Windows 7 was powering 20.9 percent of corporate desktops, according to a new Forrester Research report, while Windows XP was on 60 percent of business PCs. More...

Can power-conscious ARM chips paired with a RISC-friendly version (or versions) of Windows 8 capture 40% of the lucrative notebook market by 2015? read more Link Removed

ARM believes that the release of Windows 8 for the ARM platform will help the company grab a whopping 40 percent of the global notebook market by 2015. Source: Yahoo! News

ARM CEO Tudor Brown, during an exclusive interview with Digitimes, pointed out that he estimates that ARM will be able to take a 40% share of the global notebook market in 2015, helping the company to compete against CPU giant Intel. Source: Yahoo! News

ARM could be in half of all mobile computers within four years, company president Tudor Brown said in a speech at the Computex show in Taiwan. He gave the chips about 10 percent of the mobile PC market owing to the iPad and other tablets or smartbooks, but he expected that to jump to over 50...

Samsung's Bada appeals to those who don't want a smartphone, by offering a little less than Windows Phone 7 Oh, the irony -- Microsoft has spent $600 gazillion to market its Windows Phone 7 devices and is paying $1 billion to Nokia to get the foundering phone maker to adopt the low-capability...

News Analysis: Microsoft is already touting Internet Explorer 10, even though that browser’s predecessor has been around for just weeks. Even so, if Microsoft is sketching out the design for a rapid browser update, then it’s time to discuss what Internet Explorer 10 should offer. Although...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is gaining market share for its' new Internet Explorer 9 web browser. Whether or not IE9 adoption is enough to stem the tide of IE's overall declining share in the face of competition from Mozilla and Google remains to be seen. "Just six weeks after the launch of...