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'Dated and cheesy' Aero ripped from Windows 8

We knew Metro was Microsoft's preferred look for Windows 8 but now it seems all traces of the Win7 look are being eliminated

Windows XP update fails, asks for repeated .NET patch installs

UPDATE: MSFT slow to publicise fix for faulty patch, users still stuck in a look

Software 23 May 00:00

Chrome spends a week at the top of the browser charts

Asian and South American popularity pushes it to glory

Applications 22 May 09:17

'Dated and cheesy' Aero ripped from Windows 8

Never liked Windows 7 anyway

Operating Systems 21 May 16:03

New Oyster online service goes live at TfL

Allows travellers to check the damage online

Applications 21 May 09:05

Microsoft to devs: Don't ruin Win 8 launch with crap code

Unofficial APIs are the new fruit of temptation

Developer 18 May 18:04

Atlassian warns of critical security flaw

Confluence customers urged to upgrade

Applications 18 May 06:50

Google Knowledge Graph straddles semantic web and Star Trek

Beyond Bing-blocking and screen-fiddling

Developer 17 May 14:34

Adobe sucks on Oracle brain drain for HTML5 game gain

Java VM experts exit en masse

Developer 17 May 14:04

Google unleashes Chrome 19, flattens 20 bugs

Hot fuzz spawns QuickTime patch

Operating Systems 16 May 14:02

Red Hat hits 10-year, $1bn Enterprise Linux birthday

How a Unix killer crawled from the dot-com bust

Operating Systems 15 May 13:01

VMware puts on new vFabric suite, takes your database on a date

Virty giant gets flirty with PostgreSQL

Developer 15 May 12:37

IBM smashes Flash out of Wimbledon, serves up HTML5 app

Adobe's double fault: too snazzy and doesn't work on Apple kit

Developer 15 May 09:19

Spy under your car bonnet 'worth billions by 2016'

Break the speed limit, break the bank with your insurance quote

Applications 15 May 08:32

125,000 Ubuntu PCs to land in Pakistani students' laps

Education booster or vote-buyer?

Operating Systems 15 May 04:58

iCloud blows away 15 million users for 90 minutes

Normal service has been restored, photo-sharing on the way

Software 15 May 00:49

Yellow Pages targets zombie survivalist market

There’ll be an app for that after competition concludes

Developer 15 May 00:04

Solving traffic jams with maths

Make the traffic control the lights, instead of the other way around

Software 14 May 22:25

Nvidia launches Nsight CUDA dev tools into Eclipse

GTC 2012 Visual Studio tools get some polish, too

Developer 14 May 18:01

Adobe backs down, patches critical Photoshop CS5 hole

Paid upgrade fix row leaves a nasty taste

Applications 14 May 12:59

Antitrust probe looms over Windows RT 'browser ban'

Internet Explorer shenanigans: Hasn't Microsoft been down this road before?

Developer 14 May 12:04

How to simulate a light armoured vehicle

Thales Australia reveals tech behind trainers for eight-wheeled monster

Software 14 May 04:17

Apple OS X update puts elderly Flash out of its misery

Security fixes include new Safari that executes old plugins

Operating Systems 10 May 16:27

Mozilla and Google blast IE-only Windows on ARM

Microsoft throws browsers back to 'Dark Ages'

Developer 10 May 11:59

Facebook launches App Store Center

It's just a gallery of mobile applications ... for now

Applications 10 May 10:28

Keep out of the Olympics' way, earn a haircut from TfL app

Coupons to make Londoners ditch the train for trainers

Applications 10 May 10:16

Telefonica touts new free VoIP app to cut off rival Skype

Telco bets future of mobile on TU Me

Applications 9 May 13:32

PHP devs lob second patch at super-critical CGI bug

If at first you don't succeed, compile, compile again

Developer 9 May 13:02

Hated Visual Studio 11 beta in HIGH-ENERGY colour blast

I can C clearly now the grey has gone

Developer 9 May 12:01

Apple's HTML5 bet against Android extermination

Open ... and Shut To be closed, one must support 'open'

Developer 9 May 09:02

NHS rolls out open-source test results service for renal patients

UK-wide system lets kidney patients see results before doctors do

Applications 9 May 07:02

Microsoft makes good with a 23-fix Patch Tuesday

Busy Wednesday for BOFH

Software 9 May 00:48

Apache releases new OpenOffice build, promises faster upgrades

New graphics focus and more to come from IBM additions

Applications 8 May 21:47

Java jury finds Google guilty of infringement: Now what?

Analysis All eyes on Judge Alsup as big questions remain unanswered

Developer 8 May 12:57

Now India snaps on gloves, bends Google over for antitrust probe

'Competition is a click away' ad giant retorts

Applications 8 May 11:28

Chrome beats IE for a weekend

Google creeps up on leisure time browsing crown

Software 8 May 05:56

Groupon CEO plans to 'reinvent local commerce ecosystem'

Moving beyond digital coupon clipping

Applications 7 May 23:11

Apple updates iOS, mum on Wi-Fi, battery fixes

Don't upgrade your iDevice over iTunes

Operating Systems 7 May 20:17

Microsoft ejects DVD playback from Windows 8

Netflix and licensing killed the video star

Operating Systems 4 May 11:01

Oracle claims $777m in new trial over SAP infringement

TomorrowNow business balls-up haunts SAP

Software 3 May 19:41

Google counters juice V8 Javascript engine

Beta channels primed

Developer 3 May 14:59

Amazon Cloud Drive updates for Windows and Apple desktop

Playing catch-up in competitive cloud market

Desktop 2 May 23:47

Apple blocking Dropbox SDK over in-app buying

Storm brews over cloud storage fine-print

Developer 2 May 20:00

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