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Plan now to achieve successful Windows 7 migration

You may be holding back on migration to Windows 7, but it is not too early to start preparations for your eventual move to Microsoft's new operating system.

Open source advocate wants Microsoft Linux

Redmond should release its own free OS

XP to lose adoption war to Windows 7

Beginning of the end, says analyst

Windows 7: Four reasons to upgrade, four reasons to stay away

Windows 7: Four reasons to upgrade, four reasons to stay away

Microsoft operating systems release offers the best of upgrading, the worst of upgrading

Google Chrome: Does the world need another OS?

Google Chrome: Does the world need another OS?

When Google first launched its Chrome Web browser, many saw it as the company's extension of an operating system. Now, that prophecy is fulfilled with news of Google's plans to make the code open source.

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Windows Server 2008: a great Vista killer

Windows Server 2008: a great Vista killer

Some disaffected Vista users have discovered that Windows Server 2008, properly configured and tweaked to be more Vista-like, makes a killer workstation OS. Their discovery comes thanks to the musings of a (hopefully still employed) Microsoft engineer.

Why Vista is like sushi

Why Vista is like sushi

According to an old industry joke, IBM was once so poor at marketing that if it had invented sushi, it would have called it "cold, dead, raw fish".

Virtualisation drives Sun to Windows

Virtualisation drives Sun to Windows

The pitched battles between Microsoft and Sun in the past were great spectator sport, but not very useful for their mutual customers. This week's move to offer Windows on Sun machines is pragmatic with corporate IT users set to benefit.

Oracle releases delayed Windows database patch

Oracle races to deliver a patch for Windows users on a flaw that has been known about for five years.

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