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Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows According to BetaArchive, Windows 8 is nearing the M3 milestone, the final stop on the way to beta. And they’ve received a new leaked build of Windows 8, build 7989 (7989.winmain.110421-1285.615974c7346f7374). Here are some shots of the build, including...

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...

Yet another build Windows 8 build has leaked - this time around it's a 64-bit Windows Server 8 build 7959. Link Removed

Yet another build Windows 8 build has leaked - this time around it’s a 64-bit Windows Server 8 build 7959. Link Removed

angry tapir writes "While Microsoft has not announced the release date of its follow-up to Windows 7, an early pre-beta version of Windows 8 (although its official name has not been confirmed) has surfaced on the Internet, the second version to appear within a month. It is the second milestone...

Microsoft on Friday announced that it has sold over 350 million licenses of Windows 7 in the past 18 months. The milestone points to a momentum in the adoption of Windows 7, but Microsoft didn't break down the numbers into how many copies shipped with new PCs or are upgrades. Link Removed -...

Microsoft on Friday announced that it has sold over 350 million licenses of Windows 7 in the past 18 months. The milestone points to a momentum in the adoption of Windows 7, but Microsoft didn't break down the numbers into how many copies shipped with new PCs or are upgrades. read more Link Removed

Bangalore: After setting the milestone for IE9 it is time for the Windows 7. Microsoft announced that it sold 350 million licenses of Windows 7 in just 18 months. When calculated it was found that about 450 copies were sold every minute. More...

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Microsoft officials said on April 22 that the company has sold 350 million Windows 7 licenses in the 18 months the product has been available. More...

It seems that the good folks over on MyDigitalLife have had more time to play with the leaked code for Windows 8 Milestone 1 (M1) than I have, managing to unlock some cool features by leveraging registry tweaks. Link Removed

Even though the Milestone 1 leak of Windows 8 is old doesn't mean it can't be useful. Source: Yahoo! News

It looks like Microsoft's "shhh... let's not leak our hard work" plea to Windows 8 testers has fallen on deaf ears, as an early development milestone of Windows 8 was leaked in the wild. The shots are remarkably boring, since it looks exactly like Windows 7. Duh. Source: Yahoo! News

It seems that the first Windows 8 build has leaked, and from what we can tell, this leak does indeed appear to be verified as legit. This is a very early non-complete version of the newest version of Windows, and it does appear to have a very Windows 7 feel to it. Why would this be? Because in...

Windows 7 has finally assumed its rightful place on the desktop operating system throne -- usurping Windows XP for the first time. Granted, Windows 7 reign only covers the United States, but it is still a significant milestone on the path to becoming the number one OS globally. Link Removed

Microsoft's aim to get a tablet-optimized UI in Windows 8 was supported on Friday by registry key discoveries in a milestone build. Repeated references exist to an "Immersive" shell that would launch on top of Windows. GeekSmack's screenshots also make mentions of a docking system that would...

Foley of ZDNet reported that Windows 8 could arrive sooner than we expect, there has been some chatter on the Internet that the next-generation desktop Windows operating system could arrive on tablets with better touch support along with compatibility with ARM-based processors, a feature that...

The Windows 8 timeline could look like this: March 2011: Windows 8 Milestone 3 June / July 2011: Windows 8 Beta September / October 2011: Windows 7 Release Candidate Early 2012: Windows 8 final. More Link Removed

The first Beta of Windows 8 might be closer than you think, word Link Removed! The site is known for having the most advanced face and guessed many rumors about operating systems and this time the news is released to allow those displaced by even the most optimistic. Some time ago we...

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