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Microsoft shoots Windows Live Messenger, brings in Skype IM

Microsoft's Messenger saw off Yahoo!, AOL and Google but it can't resist Microsoft's love of Skype despite being the web's most popular IM client

Stob on Quatermass: Was this British TV's finest sci-fi hour?

Stob Special Let's shake the dead fly out of the DVD

Verity Stob 8 Nov 11:00

Microsoft offers cut-price Win 8 PCs and fondletops to UK schools

Someone is thinking of the children

The Channel 8 Nov 09:36

Twitter survives election after Ruby-to-Java move

Peak traffic of 874,560 Tweets per minute without Fail Whale coming up for air

Developer 8 Nov 01:44

AMD shutters German Linux lab, gives devs the axe

Updated Kernel contributors sent packing

Operating Systems 7 Nov 20:45

Microsoft boasts of Big Data chops for in-memory SQL

Data warehousing gets handier with Hadoop

Software 7 Nov 20:27

Office for Android, Apple iOS: 'REALLY REAL this time' - report

O please please let us fondle our spreadsheets

Applications 7 Nov 16:28

Microsoft and Skype to axe world's most popular IM client early 2013

If it works, don't fix it. Kill it and go P2P

Applications 7 Nov 12:04

I, for one, would like to welcome our Android overlord

Open ... and Shut Domination now and FOREVER

Operating Systems 7 Nov 07:00

Torvalds: I want to be nice, and curse less, but it's just not in me

'People do think I'm grumpy ... CHRIST this is ugly code'

Software 7 Nov 06:00

RISC OS comes to Raspberry Pi

Who remembers their BBC BASIC syntax?

Operating Systems 7 Nov 00:45

GPU-powered Chrome lets you watch YouTube longer

Version 23 also adds better permissions and Do Not Track

Applications 6 Nov 21:08

Nvidia heralds Steam for Linux debut with 'double-speed' drivers

GeForce to be reckoned with on the open source platform?

Applications 6 Nov 14:28

Microsoft shoots Windows Live Messenger, brings in Skype IM

Only room for one VoIP service

Applications 6 Nov 13:23

Windows Phone 8 has a secret feature which may activate at any time

Updated Aims to let users surf free WiFi 'spots all unknowing

Operating Systems 6 Nov 11:13

Are you an IT pro? It's no longer safe to bet your career on Microsoft

Obviously don't just become an iOS dev, though ...

The Channel 6 Nov 10:30

Classic game 'Elite' returns … on Kickstarter

Frontier Developments promises multiplayer 'space epic with stunning visuals'

Software 6 Nov 05:12

Red Hat's off to China with ambitious growth plans

Firm looks to cash in on huge cloud expansion

Operating Systems 6 Nov 04:42

HP upgrades Linux Foundation membership to Platinum

Now chips in more than Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu . . . or Google

Operating Systems 5 Nov 20:31

Google expects Apple to block its not crap iOS maps app

'We don't want no steenking competition'

Applications 5 Nov 20:24

Windows Phone 8 will be 'less than explosive' - HP bigwig

We're not getting back into phondleslabs any time soon

The Channel 5 Nov 17:16

Sony's iOS Reader app hits iTunes - TWO YEARS LATE

ePub viewer finally tweaked to meet Apple's Ts&Cs

Applications 5 Nov 16:32

Windows Phone 8: Exceptional tools, but where are the devs?

Analysis Microsoft's vast scary world of versions and APIs

Developer 5 Nov 16:16

Android: Google's baby ate 75% of smartphones in just 4 years

Walking corpse BlackBerry still doing OK on inertia

Operating Systems 5 Nov 15:04

So you want an office of Apple Macs - here's a survival guide

Trevor Pott digs out the tools to keep fanboi workers happy

Operating Systems 5 Nov 10:30

Australia opens inquiry into smartphone apps

Concerns about quality and in-app purchases to be tested

Software 5 Nov 06:18

KDE 'annoys the hell of' Linus Torvalds

'Boring' Linux deity revisits UI, finds it 'too cartoony'

Software 5 Nov 03:54

Atlassian junks nine years of user forums

Sparks up UI with gamified Q&A

Software 4 Nov 21:56

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

Windows Server 2012: We defluff Microsoft's 'cloud' OS

Live Chat Reg readers had their say in a lunchtime chat

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

Earlier stories

Spotlight

Open ... and Shut Domination now and FOREVER
Office on Perceptive Pixel screen
Obviously don't just become an iOS dev, though ...
Windows RT native code options
Analysis Microsoft's vast scary world of versions and APIs
Apple Macintosh
Trevor Pott digs out the tools to keep fanboi workers happy
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