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OS X Virtual Showdown: Parallels 5 vs VirtualBox 3

Virtualization is becoming a bigger factor in everyone’s computer experience. One place it seems to be gaining popularity is a Windows client running on a Mac. This arrangement allows a Mac OS X user to have access to the huge Windows library of titles. So, it does make sense for a Mac user to at [...]

How will Xbox Live work on Windows Phone 7?

Apple may have the iPhone, but the iPhone doesn’t have the Xbox. On Monday, Microsoft leveraged its most compelling entertainment asset, the Xbox 360, into the Windows Phone 7 Series. But what does this mean, practically speaking?
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App Advice Daily: Appisode 75 – MacWorld 2010 Roundup

MacWorld 2010 has come to a close, but check out the show to see the highlights! Plus Plants vs. Zombies hits the App Store and Windows Phone 7 series gets announced. Also find out how to get your music to play along with your mood thanks to Moodagent.
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Bill Gates on the iPad – and his envy of the iPhone

Does the Microsoft co-founder who pushed tablet computers back in 2001 think that the iPad is the perfect version? And what about the iPhone, which competes with Windows Mobile?
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Microsoft merges Zune software, Xbox teams

Microsoft today acknowledged it has undertaken a major shift in its Entertainment and Devices group. Following the departure of corporate VP Enrico Rodriguez, the company is merging Windows Media Center and Zune software groups into the same Interactive Entertainment Business group that handles the Xbox as well as all gaming. The Mediaroom service [...]

HP slate is real: first photos, video

As rumored, Microsoft at its CES 2010 keynote showed off an HP-designed tablet computer. The “slate” is completely new and lacks a physical keyboard, instead relying on capacitive touch. It also runs on Windows 7, sports multi-touch and adjusts for the orientation of the display, suggesting it has both an x86-based processor and [...]

Apple Fails To Deliver On Windows 7 Boot Camp Promise

SkydiverFL writes “For those fans of Apple’s Boot Camp package, it looks like you might be waiting on the next ‘end of year’ to use Windows 7 on your shiny silver boxes. Back in October of this year, Apple published a rather short, but affirmative promise stating quite simply that, ‘Apple will support Microsoft Windows [...]

Apple misses its mark on Windows 7 Boot Camp support

Installing Windows 7 over Vista will give numerous advantages, even if for nothing more than to increase the stability of the operating system; however, to date Apple has not officially supported this despite claiming support would be out by the end of the year.
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US Now Has More iPhone Users Than Windows Mobile Users

The number of active iPhone users in the US has passed that of Windows Mobile for the first time, new data from comScore shows. After just pulling even with Microsoft in July, Apple’s smartphone platform jumped to an average of 8.97 million current users in October, well ahead of Microsoft’s 7.13 million.
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iPhone to Windows Mobile: Eat my dust

ComScore has released a list of the top smartphone operating systems by market share in the United States in October. Who’s on top? Research in Motion (but for how much longer?), followed by Apple, then Microsoft. Here’s a nifty chart showing the top smartphone operating systems by number of active users in the United State
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Build an OS X Friendly Linux Media Server From Your Old PC

Surely, that Windows machine gave you some good years, before it became plagued with menacing viruses and fattening bloatware. So, why not give it a new lease on life by reconfiguring your old PC to serve as a Linux media server for your Mac?
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The counter-punch: a review of Parallels Desktop 5

Version 5 of the popular Mac virtualization package, Parallels Desktop, has hit the streets, and Ars puts it through its paces. Gaming performance, Windows 7, content creation, Linux—it’s all here, plus the inevitable comparisons to the most recent VMware Fusion release.
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What Happened To Apple’s Software Quality?

Apple has teased Microsoft for years, saying that Windows was easily more trouble than OS X. But given the raft of issues that we’re seeing with Snow Leopard, iTunes and Apple TV, are these claims still legitimate?
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Windows 7 borrowing ‘Mac look and feel”

“One of the things that people say an awful lot about the Apple Mac is that the OS is fantastic, that it’s very graphical and easy to use. What we’ve tried to do with Windows 7 – whether it’s traditional format or in a touch format – is create a Mac look and feel in [...]

Windows 7 tops Vista software sales, lags behind in hardware

Microsoft’s heavily hyped Windows 7 debut was a success for the Redmond, Wash., company in terms of boxed software, which saw a 234 percent increase over Vista, though PC hardware sales slowed.
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