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Another Netbook? No, not exactly. Hewlett-Packard's new Pavilion dv2 is an ultraportable, thank you. And the new Athlon Neo silicon inside from Advanced Micro Devices will try to prove that point.

An expert estimates Microsoft earned more than $1.5 billion through the sale of PCs labeled as "Vista Capable," according to a court document. Microsoft allowed PC makers to label some XP-running PCs as "Vista Capable" prior to the release of the Vista operating system in early 2007.

Breaking a 12 year old tradition, Steve Ballmer is expected to 'replace' Bill Gates in this year's CES Keynote.

Microsoft Windows operating systems like Windows XP and Windows Vista provide troubleshooting options for errors that occur in your PC and sometimes provide a link which can have a solution for that error. But finding a proper fix has always been a difficult task for many. Sometimes we may think why can't Microsoft fix this for me?

Avira is a German antivirus software company. Its antivirus applications are based on the AntiVir antivirus engine, first launched in 1988. It was called "H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH" when it was founded. One of the antivirus software, AntiVir Personal, is free for personal usage.

If your travel budget hasn’t evaporated into thin air — or if you want to follow along vicariously — here is a list of some of the conferences and events in 2009 where Microsoft will likely show and/or release new products.

Jan 2nd, 2009. Web metrics vendor Net Applications Inc. said today that Internet Explorer's market share plunged by a record-setting amount during December 2008. Microsofts IE lost 1.6 percentage points of its market share last month, ending December with a 68.2% share, down from November's 69.8%. IE ended the year down 7.9 percentage points, a 10.4% decline in its share since December 2007.

If there was a tech geeks calendar, January would contain a picture of the Consumer Electronics Show. It’s a trade fair where major firms announce new products and speak on the industry – and Microsoft is no exception.

Microsoft's patent application for a usage-based PC model has already been rebuffed by the US Patent Office, according to a letter disclosed today. Given to Microsoft a few days before the requested patent became public, the notice rejects Microsoft's submission for being at once too broad and too familiar. The tendency to use vague terms and the existence of already patented, relevant technology are cited as the core reasons behind the rejection.

The ringleaders of what Microsoft have described as "the world's largest software counterfeiting syndicate" have been jailed by the Futian People's Court in Shenzhen, China.