All Operating Systems Software News - August 2009

Apple to release Snow Leopard on 28 August

The new operating system features built-in support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, improvements to 90% of the features, and slimmed-down code that takes up half the space of previous operating systems

XP hacker jailed for three and a half years

Four people have been jailed in China for ripping off Windows XP, according to Reuters ....

Microsoft ports Office apps to Nokia's Symbian OS

Microsoft and Nokia today announced an alliance that will see MS Office products such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote ported to Nokia's business-oriented Eseries mobile phones.

Smartphones save Nokia and Apple as mobile sales slide

Smartphones were the bright spot in a global mobile handset market that slipped 6% to 286.1 million units in the second quarter of 2009, according to Gartner's latest research.

Eight Microsoft gripes about HTML 5.0

Microsoft has given a less than warm reception to the Worldwide...

Apple patches Mac OS X against 'poison images'

Apple has released a security update for its Mac OS X operating system which fixes 18 vulnerabilities...

Alleged Windows 7 bug raises prospect of delays

An alleged bug in the final version of Microsoft's latest operating system released to PC makers has raised the prospect that the Windows 7 release may be delayed.

Microsoft acknowledges Linux as desktop competitor

Microsoft has acknowledged Linux as a competitor to its Windows desktop client business for the first time. Microsoft listed Linux distributors...

Download XP compatibility for Windows 7 now

Users can now download from Microsoft the final code for Windows...
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