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Thursday | January 8th, 2009

Entries Tagged as 'xp'

November OS Share Numbers: Should Microsoft Be Scared?

Posted under mac, market share, xp, vista, windows, software, Commentary, Apple on December 3rd, 2008 by admin0 comments

The latest numbers from Net Applications’ Operating System stats are available, and they provide a nice epilogue to last month’s numbers. In October the Mac’s share was down, and Vista’s was up, prompting some to write about the apparent anomaly.
I countered that notion with my own writeup that showed both Windows and Mac have ups and downs in […]

Windows XP Lives On…Again

Posted under microsoft, deadline, vendor, xp, windows, leopard, software, News, Commentary, Apple on October 8th, 2008 by admin0 comments

Several websites have reported in recent days that Microsoft are once again extending their period of official support for vendors offering Windows XP on new machines. The proposed deadline had already been extended to the end of January 2009, but appears now to have been prolonged to July 31, 2009.
For Microsoft, it is usual practice […]