Microsoft: Windows 7 the Fastest Selling OS Ever

Microsoft has attributed its 35 per cent growth in profits in the first three months of 2010 to the popularity of Windows 7.

The tech giant has said that more than 10 per cent of all PCs around the world are running Windows 7 making it, “by far the fastest-selling operating system in history,” according to chief operating officer Kevin Turner.

Windows 7 has been on the market for just 6 months, in which time Microsoft has sold over 100 million licenses.

Microsoft has reported a net profit of US$4bn (£2.6bn), with sales up by 6 per cent from this time last year to a record US$14.5bn (£9.4bn).

The company has also said that strong growth in its Bing search engine and Xbox Live has added to its latest figures.

Microsoft is looking to expand its growth with the release of new products in the next few months, including Office 2010 and enterprise SQL database software.

Despite the news, Microsoft shares still fell more than 4 per cent in after-hours trading, which may signal that investors wanted new of even stronger growth signs in Microsoft’s rebound.

Overall though, it looks like demand in the PC market has returned with a 24 per cent yearly increase during the first quarter of new machine global shipments according to research house IDC.

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McAfee Security Update Crashes Windows XP Devices

Thousands of computers running Windows XP have been reportedly crashing or constantly rebooting after a McAfee security update was downloaded and installed.

The security update from the anti-virus software vendor had wrongly labeled part of the Windows OS as a virus, which resulted in Windows XP device chaos.

The McAfee 5958 update mistakenly identified the Windows svchost.exe file as a worm that sought to replace an existing svchost file with its own version in order to take over a machine.

McAfee’s update wrongly labeled svchost as the virus and then actioned a quarantine on it.

This caused machines to automatically shut down and upon restarting, the machines were not able to reload Windows, causing their repeated rebooting.

Windows relies on multiple copies of the svchost file to drive the operating system.

McAfee has since removed the offending update and replaced it with a file without the error. It has also apologised in a statement.

“McAfee teams are working with the highest priority to support impacted customers and plan to provide an update virus definition file shortly. McAfee apologises for any inconvenience to our customers.”

The company said that the incident affected, “less than one half of one percent of our enterprise accounts globally.”

Windows XP machines operating service pack 3 were the hardest hit by the malfunction.

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Toshiba To Launch Android And Windows Tablets

With tablet-fever hitting the market, Toshiba is looking to cover all as much area as possible releasing a budget 10 inch tablet computer running Android, as well as a premium Windows tablet.

The two tablets running two distinctly different operating systems will also markedly differ on their exterior, with the Windows version touted as a dual-screen model.

However Toshiba has fallen short of dubbing its slate a “Windows 7” device, which has raised speculation that the manufacturer is working behind the scenes on Microsoft’s Courier platform, which will run Windows CE, and features two screens in a “booklet” form.

Microsoft’s mock-up of the Courier is pictured here.

The Android-based device will feature a 10 inch display, though no other specs have been revealed.

Toshiba is looking to run the Android platform to provide yet another device that can tap into Android’s expanding app market.

Speaking to Reuters, Toshiba general manager of digital products Jeff Barnes said that the company was already speaking with partners to provide user content.

“Media consumption on these slates will be the main user activity,” he said.

“We definitely see a place for the slate, we see there’s a market there. It’ll be expansive like netbooks, it won’t be cannibalistic.”

While there is currently no release date, Toshiba and other tablet contenders will have to be quick, with Apple already selling over half a million iPads in just two weeks.

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HTC Touch Diamond Hacked to Include Windows Phone 7 Series

Yesterday we showed you a video of the popular HTC HD2 hacked to include the Window Phone 2 Series update.  Well it would seem that another video has been uploaded on YouTube, however this time it is the HTC Diamond being hacked.

The hack is known as a RDP hack, in which the person is running a Windows Phone 7 emulator on a PC and using a remote client (RDP) to access the PC.

Although, we know that HTC are going to give the Diamond a Window Phone 7 Series update, it certainly shows that people are becoming increasingly interested in the platform and would like a lot of the popular smartphones to be ported over to the Windows platform.

Check out the video below:

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K01: Toshiba’s super-slim Windows Mobile slider phone

Whereas Sharp decided to cautiously embrace Android, Toshiba still seems to be firmly in the Windows camp. After releasing the "iPhone killer TG01" on WinMo 6.5 last year, the company announced another Windows Mobile-based cell phone in Japan today (Toshiba is one of Microsoft's official "Mobile Partners", after all).

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Samsung Windows Phone 7 Series Handset: Launch Summer 2010?

Since the recent announcement last week regarding the Samsung Windows Phone 7 Series there have been very little details regarding the specs or potential release dates.

However, an insider source has revealed that Samsung could be getting ready to release four Windows Phone 7 Series this June/July.

Russian tech blog, Mobile Review’s leaked the news that Samsung will have four handsets fully equipped with Windows Mobile 7 ready to be shipped out for the summer, quoting “Samsung is currently in talks that 4 of the device going on sale this summer”. (Sorry for the sketchy grammar – unfortunately I don’t speak Russian so I used Google translate)

He also tweeted that the Samsung handsets could include a four inch Super AMLOED screen with HD video support.

What do you think of the rumours? Are you enticed by the Samsung Windows 7 Series mobile specs? Leave us a comment and let us know what you think…

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