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<title>Firefox 12 goes live with quiet updates, WebGL boosts</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/24/firefox.12.final.ready.to.go/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/firefox-costume.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Mozilla has posted the finished release of Firefox 12.  The browser has a key update each for Mac and Windows users.  Windows' update is most conspicuous and doesn't need the user to confirm the update in a User Account Control prompt on Vista or 7.  Mac users see a lift, as Mozilla has fixed slow WebGL graphics performance on some hardware....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft phases out regular Windows Vista support</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/09/users.get.limited.supportt.for.next.5.years/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/vista-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Effective tomorrow, users running Microsoft Windows Vista operating system will be entering a different support phase for all versions of the OS. Up until now, the OS, which originally was released in 2007, had been supported under the company's "Mainstream Support" phase. Under the new "extended support" classification, Microsoft will provide only security updates and paid support for both retail...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>HP server may have slipped simpler Windows 8 lineup</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/24/hp.ftp.shows.no.gap.in.home.editoins/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1202/windows8-nvidiatablet.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[HP may have inadvertently spoiled Microsoft's plans for a simpler Windows 8 lineup after it posted a  document for OS support with the future OS inside.  The sheet lists just a basic Windows 8 as well as Professional and Enterprise editions.  Apart from the necessary 32- and 64-bit splits, no mention was made of Home Basic, Home Premium, Starter, or other separate home versions that previous Windo...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft extends Windows Vista, 7 support  to 2017 and 2020</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/20/bith.oses.will.be.supported.for.full.10.years/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1202/window7-7-xp-vista-support%20exttended-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Microsoft has extended its support window for its legacy Windows operating systems. In the past, the software giant provided five years of support for the consumer releases of the OS, while the business versions got extended coverage for a total of ten years. Microsoft has now quietly extended support of the retail versions of Windows Vista and 7 to ten years as well....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft sues UK shop Comet for 94K alleged Windows fakes</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/comet.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Microsoft on Wednesday sued British retailer Comet for allegedly committing mass piracy.  It claimed the store made and sold 94,000 "counterfeit" copies of Windows XP and Vista as recovery discs.  The sales were "unfair to customers," Microsoft's associate general counsel David Finn claimed, implying that customers didn't concern themselves with or know that the discs weren't from Microsoft....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft 'kills' IE6 use in the US, celebrates with cake</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1201/ie6-goodbyecake.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Microsoft's hopes that Internet Explorer 6 would die were partly validated after the company's Roger Capriotti noted that the decade-old browser had been reduced to irrelevance in the US.  Working from data at NetApplications, he declared IE6 over as it made up just 0.9 percent of all American web traffic.  The US was late, having been preceded by parts of Europe and Scandinavia, but was coming at...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Mac OS X Lion growth slows, hits 16% of Mac share</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/11/12/chitika.has.lion.adoption.levelling.off/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1111/macosxlion-review.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Adoption of Mac OS X Lion has slowed significantly in the past month, Chitika found in its latest web traffic results.  While it was up to 14 percent in September after being available for two months, it had moved just two percent more by late October to hit 16 percent of the Mac user base.  Snow Leopard still had a clear majority at 55 percent, while even the four years old Leopard was at 22 perc...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Windows 7 becomes first OS more used than XP in 10 years</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/10/13/windows.7.passes.xp.in.usage.share.for.first.time/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1110/windows7-steveballmeredition.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Windows 7 has become the first OS to be used more than Windows XP in the decade since launch.  New data collected by StatCounter has shown Windows 7 just passing XP as of October at a rate that saw it grow just as much as XP declined.  The troubled earlier release, Windows Vista, never got more than a quarter of users....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft issues patch for fake DigiNotar certificates</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/09/07/microsoft.addresses.fake.diginotar.certificates/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1109/hackerin.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Microsoft has responded to the recently unveiled hack that saw DigiNotar issue fake security certificates for some high-profiles websites by issuing a patch on Tuesday. The patch only applies to affected versions of Windows Vista and is delivered through Internet Explorer. After the vulnerability was discovered on August 28, Microsoft released a security advisory on August 29 and removed the Digit...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Windows XP turns 10 in very different world</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/08/24/windows.xp.rtm.now.a.decade.old/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1108/windowsxp-starta.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Microsoft passed a milestone Wednesday as Windows XP reached its tenth anniversary.  The OS was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, two months before it reached stores October 25 that year.  It quickly became the most popular Microsoft OS and to date has sold hundreds of millions of copies....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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