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Microsoft: Next WinPhone 8 update to arrive this summer

Won't be 'Blue,' but will include important features

Microsoft: YES! You can have your desktop back again for FREE!

No, no, no need to thank us - we love you all

Android is a mess and needs sprucing up, admits chief

CommentCan Google really fix it? It isn't in control any more

Windows 8 'sales' barely half as good as Microsoft claims

Don't even mention the XP/Vista sales comparisons

Torvalds unveils first Linux 3.10 release candidate

Download, then be nice to your mother, Linux Lord advises

Microsoft honcho pleads with media: 'Stop picking on us!'

Updated'Windows 8 is a good product ... really!'

Good news: Debian 7 is rock solid. Bad news: It's called Wheezy

ReviewIf you want to be 20 miles from the bleeding edge, come on in

Windows Blue preview to land at end of June

Redmond also plans Android access to Office WebApps

Microsoft: All RIGHT, you can have your Start button back

We blew it but now we're gonna Blue it, says Redmond

Debian 7 debuts

Wheezy wheels out with extra cloud power

Japan's XP migration solution: Remove network cable

Security problems solved the old-fashioned way...

Linux kernel 3.9 lands

Power management, new processors, SSD caching and more

Apple's next OS X said to be targeted at 'power users'

Tabbed Finder windows, multiple display improvements, more

Ubuntu without the 'U': Booting the Big Four remixes

ReviewRaring Ringtail without the OS X/Unity stuff

Ubuntu 13.04: No privacy controls as promised, but hey - photo search!

A lot of stuff's missing, but the tweaks make a difference, honest

Microsoft hoists ZTE onto the Android patent bandwagon

Huawei and Googorola still holding out on licensing deals

Google's Page drops the A-bomb: Google Glass runs Android

Chief Googler confirms choice of techno-goggle OS

Linux in 2013: 'Freakishly awesome' – and who needs a fork?

LCS2013Features, performance, security, stability: pick, er, four

Windows 7 'security' patch knocks out PCs, knackers antivirus tools

Job done, lads. Now no one's getting infected

Tick-tock! 40% of PCs start Windows XP malware meltdown countdown

In 365 days, you'll be on your own against the hackers

Windows XP support ends a year from … now!

Official support ends April 7th, 2014, zombie support available at huge price

Microsoft to slap 9 patches on Windows junkies on Tuesday

Nurse, prep the critical IE update and Windows Defender fix

Got a BlackBerry? It may be telling your friends when you watch pr0n

Show what I'm listening to: 'I have come to clean your pool'

Microsoft gives away Windows 8 to Mac devs

Sells out in hours

Microsoft's summer update will be called Windows 8.1

'Windows Blue' to see return of old-school version numbers

Patent shark‘s copyright claim could bite all Unix

April FoolCook Islands entity claims rights to code present in *nix, MacOS, Windows

Spanish Linux group files antitrust complaint against Microsoft

Claims UEFI Secure Boot is anticompetitive

Next from Microsoft: 'Blue', the Windows 8 they hope you don't hate

VidPeople are used to a blue screen with Windows, right?

Ubuntu support periods slashed

Non-LTS releases to get only nine months after version 2014's 13.04

How to survive a UEFI BOOT-OF-DEATH on Samsung laptops

Matthew Garrett reveals the software surgery needed

Ubuntu tapped by China for national operating system

Canonical to help government add "Chinese specific" features to OS

Microsoft starts to roll out Windows 8 in embedded flavors

Full and cut-down Windows for dumber devices

Reg live natter with GNOME superstar Miguel de Icaza

Live ChatLet your fingers do the talking ...

Apple fixes iOS passcode-bypass hack with 6.1.3 update

New code should be big in Japan

Microsoft begins automatic Windows 7 SP1 rollout

You will be assimilated

Microsoft issues manual on Brits to Cambridge exports

No guns, dead dogs, or realtors allowed. Welcome to the Third World

Windows Phone 8 support to end in 2014

Sign of Win Phone update or death knell?

OpenSUSE 12.3: Proof not all Linux PCs are Um Bongo-grade bonkers

ReviewKDE looks slick, stuff works, no Ubuntu-style ad-ware

Apple tears itself away from iThings to squash Mac OS X bugs

Mountain Lion v10.8.3 lands with 20+ security fixes

OpenSUSE 12.3 ships, project back on track

OpenStack, Secure Boot, and kernel 3.7 among upgrades

Father of Android Andy Rubin steps down for Chrome OS boss

Pichai building one OS to rule them all?

Here's the $4.99 utility that might just have saved Windows 8

VidIs Microsoft listening, though?

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