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  • XP receives kiss of death, long live Vista

    Monday was the last day on which Windows XP will be sold as a boxed product or licensed to PC manufacturers.

  • Ballmer: It's OK to wait for Windows 7

    Some companies are planning to skip Windows Vista, and that's OK, according to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.

  • More marketing dollars will sell Vista: Ballmer

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer believes the software giant needs to spend more on marketing in order to sell more copies of Vista and has hinted that sizable increase in its marketing budget is on the horizon.

  • Vista is "New Coke"

    In a new study, Forrester Research uncovers some good news for Microsoft: Vista usage among US businesses is up by more than 40 percent since January. The bad news: still, less than 10 per cent of the 50,000 companies surveyed use Vista.

  • Are users 'satisfied' with Vista?

    Windows Vista is making good progress, according to Microsoft, and users are by and large satisfied with the company's latest operating system.

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