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Windows market share dives below 90% for first time

Microsoft's Windows OS last month took its biggest market share dive in the last two years, an Internet measurement company reported Monday, erasing gains made in two of the last three months and sending the operating system's share under 90% for the first time.

| News | Operating systems | Windows | 12/01/08 at 5:24 pm |


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Vista SP2 due next April, says report

Microsoft will deliver Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) to manufacturing in April 2009, two months after it issues a final test version to users, according to a Web site that accurately predicted several Windows ship dates in 2008.

| News | Operating systems | Windows | 11/30/08 at 12:14 pm |


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Used PCs sought for Windows XP

Some used PCs are being purchased not just for the hardware, but also because it's a cheap way to acquire Windows XP, analysts said.

| News | Hardware | Windows | 11/26/08 at 7:47 pm |


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Used PCs sought for Windows XP

Some used PCs are being purchased not just for the hardware, but also because it's a cheap way to acquire Windows XP, analysts said.

| News | Hardware | Windows | 11/26/08 at 7:44 pm |


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