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On Tuesday, Microsoft made the Windows 8 Developer Preview available publicly without demanding so much as a Windows Live login name and password in return....

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Warning: the following is not, under any circumstances, to be considered an in-depth review or technical article. I've got a rather major one of...

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In the last two weeks, Apple has announced two major, according to them, revisions of major product lines that the majority of tech pundits have...

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