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Tough choices for supercomputing's legacy apps

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Goodbye, GeoCities: It's the end of an era

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What Google Analytics cannot tell you

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Microsoft's latest version of Windows looks solid and useful. But it's no guide to the future of IT — or Microsoft more

Windows 7 RC1 made available for download

Some features have been dropped since the beta version, but Microsoft has decided to allow the release candidate version to stay functional for more than a year more

Internet Explorer 8: screenshot gallery

Internet Explorer 8 is now available for download. Here's a gallery showing some of its new features more

Leader: Microsoft's mobile strategy has gone missing

Enterprise mobile technology advances on all fronts, except one. Microsoft needs to make its strategy plain more

How Microsoft can make Windows 7 a success

Many businesses have given Vista a wide berth. Microsoft must focus on five areas to make sure Windows 7 doesn't suffer the same fate, argues TechRepublic's Jason Hiner more

Ozzie: Success of Azure comes down to trust

In an interview, Ray Ozzie says businesses will be taking a risk by placing core operations in Microsoft's datacentre, but that the software giant has more to lose if things go bad more

Photos: A screenshot tour of Microsoft's Windows 7 RC1

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Microsoft: Many Windows 7 features can be disabled

Customers will have the option of disabling a number of features of the operating system, should they so choose more

Microsoft's secret deals on open source

Microsoft has been building a portfolio of open-source licence deals. It still prefers secrecy more

Microsoft unveils Office apps in the browser

At the Professional Developers Conference, the software maker gave a preview of its newly confirmed browser-based Office apps more

Microsoft offers details on forthcoming app store

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Microsoft: No second beta of Windows 7

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