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Dell has launched an inexpensive laptop with a small keyboard and screen, dubbed a netbook, four months after it was originally anticipated that the Texan firm would enter the netbook market.
After a long-announced transition, 30 June marks the end of an era at Microsoft that of Windows XP.
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