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Microsoft announced today the worldwide availability of Windows 7, its new operating system for PCs.

Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate Edition upgrade licenses are priced at $119.99, $199.99, and $219.99, respectively. There’s also Windows 7 Starter Edition, which can be found on new netbooks. The first Windows 7 laptops mostly come with Home Premium Edition.

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Snow Leopard, a new version of Apple’s Mac OS X operating system, is available for pre-order at Amazon.com.

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, which is expected to hit the market in September, makes Mac computers “faster, more reliable, and easier to use,” according to Apple.

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Google has introduced the Chrome Operating System, an open source, free of charge, lightweight OS that will initially be targeted at netbook computers.

“Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010,” a post on Google’s official blog says.

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Microsoft’s Windows 7 is available for pre-order at various retailers who offer instant savings for early orders of the upcoming operating system.

Windows 7, scheduled for release on October 22, is available for pre-order in three editions: Home Premium ($120 $50), Professional ($200 $100), and Ultimate ($220). The discounts are valid while supplies last. The prices are for Upgrade versions, aimed at users that already own a computer with Windows Vista OS. “Full” Home Premium, Pro, and Ultimate are priced at $200, $300, and $320.

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Microsoft has launched the first Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC).

Both the 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 RC are available in English, German, Japanese, French, and Spanish and can be downloaded from Microsoft’s website.

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PC maker Asustek develops a netbook which will run Google’s Android open source operating system, business publication Bloomberg reports.

Asustek’s main man for Eee PC netbooks Samson Hu said in an interview that a team of engineers had been assigned to develop the Android-based netbook project. However, he pointed out that the company had not yet made a decision on whether it would proceed to market with the results of the experiment.

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Moblin Project released this week Moblin V2 Core Alpha for Netbooks, a new Linux OS distribution for Intel-based mini-laptops.

Moblin V2 Core Alpha for Netbooks is designed for systems with Intel Atom or Core 2 CPUs. It supports Intel’s GMA 915/945/965 integrated graphics and various Ethernet LAN and Wireless LAN adapters. The Linux distro has been tested on Acer Aspire One, Asus Eee PC 901, and Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbooks.

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Microsoft has announced this week the upcoming Windows 7 operating system, which is based on Windows Vista.

Windows 7 offers improved user interface and networking features, support for touch gestures, new Internet Explorer 8 browser, and Device Stage for easier management of media players, cameras, and other devices that are connected to your PC.

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Apple released today Mac OS X 10.5.6, the sixth major update to Leopard 10.5 operating system.

The update includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of Mac-based computers, according to the support page.

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Dell has recently added multi-touch capabilities to the Latitude XT Tablet PC via a free software upgrade.

The new capabilities of the 12.1-inch convertible laptop include scroll, zoom, and double-tap gestures.

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StreamMyGame.com announced recently that their streaming software now enables users to play intense 3D games on netbooks and ultra-mobile PCs, such as the Asus Eee PC, HP 2133, or Samsung Q1 Ultra.

Community website’s staff explains that the PC game’s video and audio are captured in real-time and sent over the Internet to a remote device, while the keyboard input at the remote device is sent back to the PC and used to control the game.

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Mozilla Firefox 3 , the latest version of the free open source Web browser, is now available for download.

Firefox 3 has improved browsing speed and security over previous version, as well as new features, such as smarter location bar, a new download manager which now includes pause and resume functionality, full zoom option with all the elements of a page’s layout expanding equally, one-click bookmarking, and more.

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Microsoft’s Origami Experience 2.0, a new pack of software applications designed specifically for the Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) running Windows Vista, is now available for download.

Origami Experience 2.0 includes 3 applications: Origami Central for web-browsing and quick access to music, photos and videos, Origami Now for weather information, email, RSS, and more, and Origami Picture Password to login to your UMPC.

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For business customers, Hewlett-Packard now optionally offers Windows XP operating system on its HP 2133 Mini-Note PC low-cost ultraportable laptop.

The new OS option is available as a downgrade from Windows Vista to Windows XP Professional. A specification sheet of the HP 2133 says that “to qualify for this downgrade an end user must be a business (including governmental or educational institutions) and is expected to order annually at least 25 customer systems with the same custom image”.

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After a delay, Microsoft has begun distribution of Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Windows XP operating system.

Download of XP SP3 is available from Microsoft Download Centre as a 316.4MB file and from Microsoft Windows Update. The upgrade is much smaller and faster through Windows Update, than through Download Center.

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