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Microsoft building its own Phone hardware: Not 'If', but 'When'

Analysis Microsoft's licensing fees and vice-like grip on brand have long inhibited its penetration of devices; maybe it is time to go it alone on phones

Apple's poisonous Touch silently kills the GNOMEs of Linux Forest

Analysis Penguin Ewoks slaughtered in the woods

Operating Systems 4 Nov 08:00

You know who else hates Windows 8? Hackers

Antivirus makers heap praise and scorn on new security features

Windows 8 3 Nov 13:02

Microsoft: TypeScript isn't a JavaScript killer

Build 2012 It's not about the language, it's about the tools

Developer 3 Nov 00:11

EPA likes clouds – as long as they're Microsoft's

Redmond scores another government Office win, this one starting at $9.8m

Software 2 Nov 23:50

Microsoft takes on GitHub with cloudy Team Foundation Service

Build 2012 Not just for Windows developers, either

Developer 2 Nov 20:17

Windows Phone 8: Everything you need to know at a glance

Comment Does it match up?

Windows 8 2 Nov 18:46

MIT boffin's algorithm foresees Twitter's trendy future

Predicts with 95% accuracy when a small trend will burst big

Software 2 Nov 17:35

Where are all the open-source mobile projects?

Open ... and Shut Beauty of Apple and Android not found on a server

Software 2 Nov 17:20

Microsoft building its own Phone hardware: Not 'If', but 'When'

Analysis The hard route to 3rd place for Redmond

Operating Systems 2 Nov 13:32

What's next after Windows 8? Speak Your Brains on Server 2012

Live Chat Sign up to defluff Microsoft's 'cloud' OS: Monday, 5 Nov, 2pm GMT

Software 2 Nov 08:20

Apple updates iOS 6, Safari

Dreaming of a fix for the crap Maps app? Dream on

Software 2 Nov 00:33

Apple enables 'Superstorm Sandy' donations in iTunes Store

No, Cupertino won't take its 30% cut – it all goes to the Red Cross

Applications 1 Nov 19:52

Windows 8 'penetrated' says firm which sells to world's spy agencies

Various spooks now have secret keys to Redmond's kingdom

Windows 8 1 Nov 16:58

5 Tokyo devs cuffed over 'The Movie' Android app scam

Record records reaper slurped 90,000 mobes

Applications 1 Nov 13:57

Hardware hacker proves Apple Fusion Drive works on older Macs

New role for OS X 10.7 Lion's CoreStorage logical volume manager

Operating Systems 1 Nov 12:32

BlackBerry 10: Dozens of networks probe the final RIM shot

Phone maker VERY EXCITED about mega mobe probe

Operating Systems 1 Nov 12:29

Mozilla: Windows 7 browser bungle cost us nine MILLION downloads

And look who's more and more popular - IE!

Applications 1 Nov 11:44

Nobody knows what to call Microsoft's ex-Metro UI

Build 2012 Not even Microsoft, it seems

Applications 31 Oct 21:01

California begins crackdown on mobile app developers

Protect user privacy or face the courts

Software 31 Oct 19:20

'We invented Windows 8 Tiles in the 1990s', says firm suing Microsoft

We couldn't get anyone to like them either

Windows 8 31 Oct 16:21

Privacy group damns Ubuntu's Amazon search marriage

Unhelpful when you're searching your pr0n library

Operating Systems 31 Oct 15:19

'IE hit squad' helps ease browser babel on office PCs

Used to be all (Microsoft green) fields round here

Operating Systems 31 Oct 08:00

Underdone iTunes put back in oven for another month

'Taking longer than expected' to avoid crap Maps app flap recap

Applications 31 Oct 00:32

Microsoft opens Windows Phone 8 dev kit to world+dog

Build 2012 Claims it did everything right this time

Developer 31 Oct 00:11

Google upgrades Gmail interface, now less 'drafty'

Shifting email towards instant messaging

Applications 30 Oct 21:10

Ballmer claims Win 8 sales strong, WinPhone to follow

Build 2012 'If you want one, you'll want the other'

Windows 8 30 Oct 20:23

Asus gets paid handsomely for swallowing Google's Jellybean

Strong in fondletops, 'slabs - and still in notebooks

Operating Systems 30 Oct 17:02

Forgetting Microsoft: How Steve Ballmer's Surface could win

Open ... and Shut Ignore Apple, it's Google he must take on

Operating Systems 30 Oct 13:26

Pre-ordered a Microsoft Surface? So SORRY it's late, have a voucher

Redmond positively désolé at your frustration

Windows 8 29 Oct 14:28

Microsoft aims to herd 70% of enterprise onto Windows 7 by mid-2013

Exclusive 'Um, yeah, good luck with that' – partners

Windows 8 29 Oct 11:50

Granny upstages Microsoft, storms stage at Surface launch

Vid Fondletop shindig chaos in Beijing

Windows 8 29 Oct 09:57

British IT consultant talks of his three years as an Iraqi hostage

Days of PlayStation, systems design and mock executions

Developer 28 Oct 01:28

Chrome extension blocks political speech on Facebook

Never mind that rant, u can haz cats!

Applications 27 Oct 00:52

Yahoo! will! ignore! 'Do! Not! Track!' from! IE10!

Default setting 'degrades the experience'

Applications 26 Oct 23:59

Headaches, delays plague Windows Store, dev claims

'Windows 8 doesn't want your app'

Developer 26 Oct 22:38

Surface RT: Freedom luvin' app-huggers beware

Review A hybrid with potential for productivity types

Windows 8 26 Oct 10:29

N00bs vs Windows 8: We lock six people in a room with new OS

'It's like they tried to make my computer a mobile phone'

Windows 8 26 Oct 08:02

Australian Win 8 launch fails to mention business

Connected to everything, except the desktop and sysadmins

Software 26 Oct 01:42

Surface tablet's touch cover is ZX81 REBORN

FIRST FONDLE Hands on with Redmond's Typoslab

Windows 8 26 Oct 00:00

Sinofsky: Surface 'best tablet, best laptop' he's ever used

So solid Redmond built a Surface skateboard

Windows 8 25 Oct 21:07

Oracle rolls up and rolls out Solaris 11.1 update

Tweaked Solaris Cluster 4.1 system lasher tags along

Operating Systems 25 Oct 20:43

Windows 8 unleashed! Midnight launch for world+dog

Will it be remembered as an XP or a Vista?

Windows 8 25 Oct 17:58

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Analysis Penguin Ewoks slaughtered in the woods
Antivirus makers heap praise and scorn on new security features
Open ... and Shut Beauty of Apple and Android not found on a server
Analysis The hard route to 3rd place for Redmond
Open ... and Shut Ignore Apple, it's Google he must take on
Review A hybrid with potential for productivity types
Windows 3.0 Color Control Panel
What you really, really need to know
Ex-Microsofties dispute Sinofsky's blogpost claim
Windows 8
Not ready installing on drive C: abort, retry or fail?
Bill Gates' 1970s' mug shot
Windows 1.0, Windows 95, Windows NT - the road to Windows 8