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Can you believe it's only been a year since Windows 7 hit the market? So much has happened in the interim, we could swear it's been a decade. Of course, Microsoft is celebrating Windows 7's birthday the best way it knows how: sales numbers. Turns out the little OS has done pretty well for...

By Tim Conneally, Betanews It's been one year since Windows 7 launched to the world, and to celebrate the passing of the year, Microsoft has released some information about the milestones Windows 7 has passed. Most importantly among them, Microsoft announced that 240 million Windows 7 licenses...

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NVIDIA APEX PhysX Efficiency: CPU vs GPU Benchmark Reviews tests NVIDIA APEX PhysX efficiency using Mafia II - compares CPU vs GPU performance. According to the August 2010 Steam Link Removed - Not Found survey, PC gamers prefer NVIDIA GeForce desktop video cards nearly 80% more than AMD/ATI...

IE 9 Beta – Minus XP Internet Explorer has reached it’s 15th birthday. The next generation version of Microsoft’s Internet browser will be available for users to try out on September 15. That is everyone except those people still clinging to Windows XP. Because that group, Microsoft has...

Computerworld - Microsoft's Windows 7 reached a major milestone in July, while Apple's Mac OS X lost ground for the fourth straight month, a Web analytics firm said Sunday. Link Removed

From: WindowsITPro.com website July 26, 2010 by Paul Thurrott As part of its quarterly and annual financial results released late last week, Microsoft announced that it had sold more than 175 million copies of Windows 7 through the third week of July. That milestone comes less than a...

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Link Removed - Invalid URL When it comes down to bulletproofing systems, users should always opt for the latest releases of the Windows client. Volume eight of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIRv8) makes this perfectly clear, per the Operating System Trends analysis performed by...

Link Removed Computerworld - Microsoft weathered the storm of Windows Vista, 2007's often-abused operating system, an analyst said today after reviewing the company latest earnings. "At this point it appears Microsoft has put Vista behind it," said Allan Krans, an analyst with Technology...

Link Removed due to 404 Error Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) fiscal third-quarter profit grew 35% as the software giant benefited from a strong response from the release of the company's Windows 7 operating system. "Business customers are beginning to refresh their desktops and the momentum of...

A beta version of Microsoft's upcoming Service PackLink Removed 1 (SP1) for Windows 7 appeared on Torrent sites online, bearing a build date of March 27. Ahead of an expected official company announcement, a build of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) surfaced online on a...

A year faster than Vista Windows 7 reached the 10 per cent usage milestone, according to beancounters at Web analytics company Net Applications, as the OS has crossed the 10 per cent figure more than a year earlier than Vista. However the gleam of Window's 7 appears to be the only brightness...

At the end of March 2010, there were twice as many computers running Windows 7 as machines with Mac OS X installed, although the latest iteration of the Windows client was released to the market just five months ago. According to statistics from Net Applications, Windows 7 currently accounts for...

PC Users Like Windows 7 -- and Windows XP Early Windows 7 users like the new operating system, but many Windows XP users still like their nine-year-old OS. That's the word from two new reports by Forrester Research, which said that 86 percent of the first users of Microsoft's newest operating...

Vista took 11 months to gain same market share Microsoft's Windows 7 has gained the same amount users in three months that Vista in nearly a year, says Net Applications. Link Removed - Invalid URL

Link Removed - Invalid URL Upgrading to the resource hog that was Windows Vista meant that home and business users alike also required a hardware upgrade. The fact that Vista required quite expensive new hardware in order to run at a level of performance equivalent to Windows XP’s...

Link Removed - Invalid URL Link Removed - Invalid URL Link Removed - Invalid URL With the advent of Windows 7, the market shares of both Windows XP and Windows Vista have started bleeding, with users transitioning to the latest iteration of the Windows client. Still, although Windows 7...

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Apple grabs half of US desktop market Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed due to 404 Error Written by Link Removed due to 404 Error Friday, 27 November 2009 11:07 A dark day for humanity According to NPD beancounters, Apple's desktop retail share in the US market has jumped to...