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  • Microsoft backflips on Win7 family pack

    Reversing an earlier decision, Microsoft has today decided to release the Windows 7 Family Pack in Australia, which bundles three upgrade licences for its Windows 7 operating system for $249.

  • Kim Carr's supercomputer: Contest winner

    Expectations for comedy gold were high going into last week's caption contest, and we certainly were not let down, with high-grade champagne comedy flowing freely.

  • Microsoft dabbles in hardware

    Taking a page from arch-rival Apple, Microsoft has teamed up with hardware-maker Acer to deliver a Windows 7 laptop created to its specifications.

  • Office 2010 beta gets LinkedIn

    Microsoft has released a beta of Office 2010 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. The beta integrates social network LinkedIn with Outlook, offers a stripped back Excel for browser editing, and video editing tools for PowerPoint.

  • Caption contest: Kim Carr's supercomputer

    What exactly was going on here between Carr and ANU research professor Brian Schmidt at the launch of the ANU's new supercomputer yesterday? A new martial arts move? Explanation of a star going supernova?

  • The end of Kaz: Fujitsu kills brand name

    From Friday, Fujitsu's Kaz and Supply Chain brands would cease to exist, being relabelled as Fujitsu, the company said today.

  • Video: Microsoft's Tracey Fellows

    After the launch of Windows 7 last week, ZDNet.com.au spoke briefly with Microsoft Australia and New Zealand MD Tracey Fellows.

  • Aussie Windows 7 Launch: Photos

    This morning at the National Maritime Museum, Microsoft launched its newest operating system, praising its new features and showing off the hardware which will run it.

  • Win7 Sydney launch: Live video feed

    Watch the launch of Windows 7 live in Sydney this morning from 9:30am as Microsoft broadcasts the event via Ustream.

  • Win7 Sydney launch: Live Twitter feed

    Follow the launch of Windows 7 live in Sydney this morning from 9:30am as ZDNet.com.au reporter Suzanne Tindal Twitters the whole event.

  • The big 27,000: Win7 ensnares Centrelink

    As Microsoft launches Windows 7 in Australia, major federal welfare agency Centrelink is planning to migrate to the new operating system by mid next year. Will other companies follow its example, or will Microsoft see the same lack of interest for Windows 7 as it did for Vista?

  • Aussies hit with IBM price hike

    IBM has confirmed it will raise Australian prices on a number of its products by 3 per cent effective from 1 January 2010, in response to what Big Blue described as "changing economic conditions and cost structures".

  • Microsoft introduces 'Starter' version of Office

    The new ad-supported, limited feature version of Office will come preloaded on certain new PCs. The replacement for Microsoft Works is one of several new ways Microsoft is trying to create new customers for its productivity suite.

  • Windows 8: Dying gasp or next big thing?

    Just as the marketing hype around Windows 7 heads towards its peak, a few details are starting to surface about its likely successor.

  • RailCorp wrestles with Conficker

    RailCorp has confirmed that some of its workstations had been infected with the Conficker virus, although it insisted that the virus had caused no operational impact.

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