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Apparently Microsoft isn’t doing everything with Windows 7 differently from how it did Windows Vista.

As was the case with Vista, Windows 7 will get its formal launch in the Big Apple. CEO Steve Ballmer will preside over the October 22 event, with the usual array of hardware partners showing off their latest wares.

But that’s not the only Gotham event for Microsoft in October. The company is also doing a consumer open house at the Park Avenue Armory, led by Robbie Bach, on October 6. Microsoft plans to highlight everything from the Zune and new phones to hardware products like keyboards and mice.

Microsoft is hoping to turn that event into an annual event.

By: news.cnet.com     Read more >>

SYMANTEC AND MCAFEE have agreed to pay the state of New York $750,000 as a penalty for renewing customers’ software subscriptions without clearly telling the punters that they would do so automatically.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo had accused Symantec and McAfee of having an auto-renewal subscription policy which was about as transparent as the Great Wall of China.

By: theinquirer.net   Read more >>