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Apple cuts price of high-end SSD MacBook Air by $500
Apple on Thursday quietly reduced the price of its most expensive laptop by $500, dropping the cost of the upper-end MacBook Air to $2,598. Read more...

Microsoft promises four patches next week

Mac OS X market share surges 32% in one year

Microsoft eases hardware terms for XP on low-cost PCs

Microsoft trumpets security additions in upcoming IE8

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Apple OS update fixes Adobe corruption bug

Microsoft scrutinizes WSUS patch snafu

Apple patches 25 Mac OS X security vulnerabilities

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15 ways Microsoft can reinvent itself for the post-Gates era
Its co-founder is retiring, its latest big product has been vilified, and potential partners are spurning its advances. So what does Microsoft do to remain relevant? Here are 15 ideas.

Opinion: RTM edition of Microsoft Hyper-V adds speed
In one test, the virtual machine was able to saturate the hardware enough to achieve 97% of the storage performance of a physical server.

Opinion: The mythical 'Vista application'
Analysts are raising the alarm that less than 10% of developers are writing applications for Vista, but they've got the wrong end of the stick.

Review: Microsoft's Hyper-V does the trick
Microsoft's virtualization software works well, but it's still pretty far behind the functionality of VMware in most areas, according to InfoWorld's reviewer. Still, Microsoft's tool is "good enough" for the vast majority of scenarios, or it will be soon.

FAQ: XP deathwatch, T minus 1 week
One week from today, Microsoft will pull the plug, more or less, on Windows XP. But there will still be ways to get the aging operating system.

Firefox 3 for Mac: Is it time to switch from Safari?
Performance improvements and a pleasant user interface in Mozilla's Firefox 3 mean that Apple's Safari 3.1 is no longer the de facto standard. But is Firefox the clear choice?

This old laptop: Revitalizing an aging notebook on the cheap
Don't ditch that old notebook! With about $125 and an hour or two, you can make it run like new.

Run Windows software on Linux with Wine 1.0
Fifteen years in the making, software lets Linux speak Windows' language. When an application tries to make a Windows system call, the Wine libraries intercept it and perform whatever action was requested, only they do it the Linux way, instead of the Windows way.

Apple iWork and Microsoft Office: Can they work together?
Sharing files between Microsoft Office and Apple's iWork suite can be a pain -- especially if you've got Windows users in the mix. John Rizzo explains how to make it work.

Opinion: Apple's Snow Leopard -- an OS without any new features?
Apple's next operating system, Snow Leopard, is due out in about a year, and it won't bring with it any major new features. Columnist Dan Turner explains why that may just be a good thing.

All it takes is a couple hours and about $125 to breathe new life into an old laptop. Here's how.
Is Microsoft's Golden Age over? What are Gates' most memorable quotes? Find out in Computerworld's complete coverage of the end of the Bill Gates era at Microsoft.
There are some things your CIO definitely doesn't want to hear. Also don't miss the flipside, Five things you should always tell your boss.
With its latest version, Mozilla's browser continues to raise the bar for what Web browsers should be.
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Four years from now, the IT field will be a vastly different place. Will you be ready?
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