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Microsoft brags about Windows 7 on the OS' anniversary. Microsoft is everyone's favorite whipping boy, but it did get something right when it introduced Windows 7, which celebrates its one year anniversary Friday. Over the past year the Redmond gang has sold 240 million licences of Windows 7...

Microsoft brags about Windows 7 on the operating system's one year anniversary. More...

Windows 7 launched one year ago, and this morning Microsoft announced that it's sold more than 240 million licenses. That sounds like great news for Microsoft, right? More than 240 million people have chosen to buy Windows 7! More...

Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the launch of Windows 7. To celebrate, Microsoft is releasing new numbers, claiming that the company has sold 240 million licenses of the product to date. More...

Hi all, So to make a long story short, I've gone over my 60GB internet usage limit quite a lot over the past year or so. Uploads and downloads both count towards usage. When I looked at the monthly usage history, I was surprised to find that there are several months, including the current one...

Microsoft CEO Steve Link Removed, but he did whip through a lot of stats during his Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote on January 6. One of those stats only caught my attention this morning, when I saw a couple of folks tweet it. Ballmer said during his keynote last night that there are...

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...

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...

When I read articles like this, I tend to completely discount the credibility of the author. This writer(?) speaks of the dismal failure of Vista because it is only being used on 30% of Windows computers currently in use, yet he speaks of the "domination" of Office 2007 which accounts for a...

Hi all I was reading the article on the RSS feed - W7 slipping in the Polls. What a load of TOTAL non factual utter piece of Bovine Scatology. For a start the number of downloads is NOTHING like the number of computers W7 is installed on -- I must be testing this on around 20 - 30 machines...

Hi Guys Be careful in using W7 WMP. There's a little legal "nasty" in that it says " Usage will be sent to Microsoft" plus some discalimer saying that "Information is only collected for "Statistical Purposes". Whilst I don't believe in Microsoft "Conspoiracy" theories I just don't like the...

Hi Moderator (or is it Kyle !) Just a suggestion here -- but obviously people are having a whole slew of problems with various Ethernet Cards / Routers / mother board / Laptop combinations and are posting problems in various forums rather than in one place. This is just a suggestion but it...

You may have seen a new utility floating around the web recently called 'GPU-Z'. It's very much like it's name-sake 'CPU-Z' although as you can guess GPU-Z gives the user information about the graphics chip and not the CPU itself.. If you want a copy go here: Link Removed due to 404 Error...