Microsoft has announced another 800 job cuts. The cuts appear to be across the board rather than through specific departments being axed.

The new job losses appear to be a knock-on effect of previous cuts, rather than a new piece of axe-wielding. TechFlash, which broke the news, reports that the latest [...]

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Microsoft has found a solution to a problem which caused some Windows 7 upgrades to freeze up before completion. But the firm has yet to solve a separate problem where machines are caught in a reboot [...]

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One of the leading players in the Linux world has described Windows 7 as “excellent”. But some of Mark Shuttleworth’s other comments are a perfect example of the phrase “damning with faint praise.”

Shuttleworth (pictured) is CEO of Canonical, the firm [...]

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The release of Windows 7 went well, with just a few problems marring an otherwise perfect launch which succeeded where Vista failed two-and-a-half years ago. But there was one strange addition to the [...]

It’s not been a bad week for Microsoft. Thursday saw the release of Windows 7, and Friday saw the company announce its quarterly results. Although not fantastic, they are [...]

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It took its time in finally arriving but it’s now here at last. Windows 7 went on general sale yesterday around the world. In many ways, the true test for Microsoft’s new operating system now begins. Beta testing is fine but it cannot ever hope to compete with millions of average everyday PC users installing [...]