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Etc. by Scott Wasson — 10:06 AM on February 28, 2012 Morning, all. For what it's worth, this week is one of those strange ones where all of our editors are occupied with big projects.... Type: News story Tags: The Tech Report	7
Zune, Windows Live brands said to be on the chopping block by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:42 PM on February 24, 2012 Microsoft is cleaning house, it sounds like. We found out this morning that the company might cut down on the number of OS editions with... Type: News story Tags: Software Windows	53
Windows 8 editions listed in HP driver notes by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:28 AM on February 24, 2012 Now, this could simply be a placeholder, not a genuine list of the upcoming Windows 8 editions. Still, it's an interesting slip-up by HP. As... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	43
Windows 7, Vista to get extended support by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:37 AM on February 21, 2012 Microsoft is extending an olive branch to stragglers. According to ComputerWorld, the company has quietly prolonged the support period for consumer editions of both... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	74
It's official: The new Windows logo is a monochrome trapezoid by Cyril Kowaliski — 12:56 PM on February 17, 2012 Score one for the rumor mill. Microsoft officially unveiled the Windows 8 logo on its Windows Blog this morning, and as expected, it's... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	134
Toshiba pegs Windows 8 launch in fourth quarter by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:45 AM on February 16, 2012 Don't expect Windows 8 before October. That's the (perhaps unintentional) subtext of a recent Toshiba presentation captured by the folks at NetbookItalia. In the presentation,... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	15
Windows logo to get a Metro makeover by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:33 AM on February 14, 2012 Goodbye, multi-colored Windows flag inside a blue bubble. Hello, quadrisected monochrome trapezoid. The Verge reports that the familiar Windows logo is going to get... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	65
Microsoft details Windows on ARM in new blog post by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:10 PM on February 9, 2012 Windows head honcho Steven Sinofsky has posted a whopper of a blog post about Windows on ARM. The 8,600-word piece starts off with a... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows Personal tech	29
Windows 8 Consumer Preview due February 29 by Cyril Kowaliski — 2:59 PM on February 8, 2012 Three weeks to go until you can get your hands on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. As CNet News reports, Microsoft has revealed the... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	44
Etc. by Scott Wasson — 12:29 PM on February 8, 2012 Howdy, all. I was out traveling all of last week, first visiting Intel up in Oregon and then down to Santa Clara for AMD's... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics The Tech Report	9
Leaked Windows 8 shots show missing Start orb by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:39 AM on February 6, 2012 Microsoft seems to be erasing all traces of the Start menu we all know and love, at least in Windows 8's default configuration. Last year's... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	47
Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 to have shared kernel by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on February 3, 2012 We know that Windows 8 is taking a page out of Windows Phone 7's playbook by implementing the same Metro user interface. According to the... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows Personal tech	53
Microsoft outlines Explorer tweaks in Win8 beta by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:34 PM on January 30, 2012 The upcoming Windows 8 public beta will no doubt offer a myriad of improvements over last year's developer preview. Microsoft has outlined a handful of... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	20
Win8 mobile broadband improvements explained by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:48 AM on January 24, 2012 With its Metro interface, Windows 8 will have more than a few things in common with Windows Phone 7. Judging by the latest update... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Operating systems Windows	11
Etc. by Scott Wasson — 10:34 AM on January 16, 2012 Morning, all. We're back and, I think, mostly recovered from CES, provided that we didn't bring home any swine flu or black plague again... Type: News story Tags: The Tech Report	17
Asus preps new PCIe, USB, and integrated audio solutions by Geoff Gasior — 2:04 AM on January 12, 2012 All has been quiet on the Xonar front, but that's set to change early this year. Asus is prepping a couple of new audio... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia	57
Happy new year; our servers will briefly be flaky by Scott Wasson — 9:07 AM on January 1, 2012 We're working on our web servers this morning, so you're likely to see some brief down time, followed by a period of transition where some... Type: News story Tags: The Tech Report	41
Please, bang on the new box by Scott Wasson — 3:34 PM on December 29, 2011 We're currently doing some prep work for our new web server infrastructure, and we could use your help. If you have a second, flip over... Type: News story Tags: The Tech Report	36

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Continuing a long history of innovation, AMD announced today that they were the first to reach a critical CPU power envelope threshold. AMD CEO, Rory...

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