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...
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Mcrosoft selling crapware-free PCs in its stores
The computers at Microsoft Stores don't have the crapware that Windows PCs typically come with, but they still have an assortment of Microsoft and Adobe software. Most controversially, they include Windows Live Essentials and Microsoft...
Windows 7 outsells Vista by 234% in the US Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed due to 404 Error Written by Link Removed due to 404 Error Friday, 06 November 2009 11:10
Initial sales show Vista the door
While any user who's had "the pleasure" of running Vista knows this from...
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Windows 7 Preorders for the UK and are still very strong.
Comet have now sold out of both Home Premium and Professional.
So now the only stores left are:
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Amazon and microsoft store are selling it at the full price...
Amazon has got so many windows 7 preorders that they have removed it from microsofts site and are offering it at the retail price of £74.99
But stores such as pc world and comet are still selling at £44.99
I luckily got mine at Comet!
I was reading this forums news posts and followed up on one in particular, this can be found here:
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The article in question discuss's how MS has dropped prices in an effort to generate more sales of Vista with the author then proposing why Vista is already a doomed os.
I would be...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP#Support_lifecycle
Well, looks like it's time to upgrade to Vista. I think Vista has matured to the point that it is very usable, and we need to face it, XP is outdated and less secure than Vista, plus has a lot of less features.