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Windows 7 Fastest Selling OS

Microsoft has sold 90 million copies of Windows 7 since the operating system hit the market last October, according to the company’s chief financial officer. That, Microsoft said, makes the software the fastest selling OS in the history of the PC industry.

We see continuing momentum in Windows 7 to date,” said Microsoft CFO Peter Klein, [...]

Inside the Excruciatingly Slow Death of Internet Explorer 6

It’s the bane of Web designers everywhere, and it makes most modern Websites look broken and horrible. So why are 20% of web surfers still using it?

Today was supposed to be a great day for the Web. As of March 1, 2010, Google will no longer support Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 browser-a decade-old dinosaur engineered [...]

People's Republic of Hacking

WUHAN, China—Some of today’s biggest cybersecurity worries trace their roots to this central Chinese city, where a hacker with a junior high school education slapped cartoon pandas onto millions of computers to hide a destructive spy program.

The Panda Burns Incense computer worm, created by 27-year-old Li Jun, wreaked havoc for months in China in 2006 [...]