IBM: The PC is the new mainframe
"The PC is dead!" We've heard that message a lot since the birth of Apple's iPad, but when one of the creators of IBM's first PC added his voice to the chorus, people took notice.
Stories by Jon Brodkin
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On Linux's 20th anniversary, recounting past slights from Microsoft
The mythical "year of the Linux desktop" still hasn't come, and may never, but on the 20th anniversary of Linux the free operating system's proponents threw a party to celebrate its success and scoff at past attacks launched by Microsoft, its biggest rival.
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The epic unpopularity of Windows smartphones
Pop quiz: Can you name every smartphone platform that's more popular than Windows Phone 7? Go on. We dare you.
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IBM: After 30 years, PC going the way of the vacuum tube and typewriter
Thirty years ago, IBM created the first personal computer running Microsoft's MS-DOS. Today, IBM and Microsoft seem to have very different views on the future of the PC.
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Google accuses Microsoft, Oracle, Apple of "hostile" patent campaign
Google's chief legal officer today accused rivals Microsoft, Oracle and Apple of "a hostile, organized campaign against Android ... waged through bogus patents."
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Apple to have one OS for Macs and iPads by 2016, analyst predicts
With Microsoft trumpeting the idea that PCs and tablets should run the same operating system and have all the same capabilities, will Apple go down the same road?
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Internet Explorer gains among Windows 7 users, despite Microsoft's overall losses
Microsoft's long and steady decline in browser market share continued in July, but there is one bright spot for Redmond: Among Windows 7 PC owners, Internet Explorer is gaining, albeit only slightly.
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Android Trojan records phone calls
A new Android Trojan is capable of recording phone conversations, according to a CA security researcher.
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Google founders were talked out of ignoring user email
In Google's early days, founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin argued that answering email complaints would be a waste of time, and that Googlers should fix problems behind the scenes without interacting directly with users, according to a former Google employee who wrote a book about his time at the company.
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Microsoft struggles to get Hyper-V drivers in Linux kernel
Microsoft isn't exactly dumping Windows for Linux, but it has become one of the busiest contributors to the Linux kernel. Microsoft's attempt to get Hyper-V drivers into the Linux kernel has taken longer than expected, having begun in July 2009, so Microsoft is apparently trying to speed up the process.
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Despite Microsoft gains, VMware still dominates virtualisation market
VMware is the primary hypervisor for 58 per cent of organizations that use x86 <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/102510-burning-questions-virtualization-storage.html">virtualisation</a> software, with Citrix and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a>'s Hyper-V splitting the rest of the market, a new survey finds.
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Microsoft previews Windows 8, Skype/Lync; bashes competition
Microsoft's annual partner conference last week featured previews of the Windows 8 server and desktop operating systems, talk of integration between Skype and Lync, and a barrage of insults aimed at the company's competitors.
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Ballmer's new chant: Numbers, numbers, numbers
Microsoft lost its title as the world's biggest tech company this year with Apple surging ahead in market cap, profit and revenue.
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Office 365 apps for iPhone and Android not coming soon
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> launched Office 365 to the world this week, but the company's cloud product development is by no means complete.
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Microsoft: Cloud computing won't hurt us
Cloud computing is widely perceived as a threat to Microsoft, because the maker of Windows and Microsoft Office earns the lion's share of its money selling licenses for packaged software.
