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Microsoft has released just four security bulletins this month, and only one of them is rated critical.

Worldwide use of Windows 7 has finally passed that of Windows XP, according to one web tracking company.

Telstra has won a deal expected to be worth $36.7 million over the next eight years to install more than 3,500 computers at the bedside in South Australian hospitals and also provide patients with access to a range of entertainment services including Foxtel/Austar, a dedicated phone line and filtered internet access.

Smartphone penetration in Australia is forecast to rise from 50 percent of users today to 90 percent by 2015, some 18.5m devices in total.

A month and three days ago, Microsoft put on a show to parade Windows 8 to the people who matter when it comes to creating the applications that will ensure marketplace dominance - developers.

This month's Patch Tuesday saw Microsoft release eight bulletins addressing 23 vulnerabilities. If you run a still-supported version of Windows, there's a patch for you this month.

Patch Tuesday will soon be with us again, and for October Microsoft is cooking up something for most Windows users and administrators. The scoreline is Critical 2, Important 6.

It is hardly surprising, but the gap between Apple and its iPad and the rest of the field in media tablet uptake and sales worldwide is still huge, with the global giant killer expected to finish this year with more than 50 percent marketshare and remain there until at least 2014.

If Microsoft fails to deliver on expected revenue outcomes from the new Windows 8 platform then it will mean the end of the Windows PC market. This is the view of a senior Windows watcher market analyst.

A developers' conference is something similar to a meeting of evangelistic Christians or Islamic fundamentalists - no non-believers or sceptics are around, the cheers are raucous and come without prompting, and all the focus is on the man on the stage. Listening to nearly three hours of spiel on the web from the Microsoft BUILD developers conference this morning reminded me of this.

Windows users envious of the touch/gesture capability of Apple's Magic Mouse don't have much longer to wait for a response from Microsoft's hardware division.

Microsoft has addressed 22 vulnerabilities with 13 security bulletins this month. The good news is that only two of the bulletins are rated critical.

With 94% or almost 635m new PCs shipped by the end of 2011 to come with Windows 7, and on 42% of all PCs in total, Microsoft's Vista replacement is slowly but surely making its way up the charts, as Apple posts small gains and Linux based operating systems remain 'niche'.

After a relatively quiet July, Microsoft plans to release a dozen security bulletins on August's Patch Tuesday.

Lenovo has announced three new tablets, with two running Android 3.1 Honeycomb on Nvidia Tegra 2 processors and a third running Windows 7 with an unspecificed 1.5GHz Intel processor - are these all but placeholders until Windows 8?

The most successful version of Windows - and the one that people will probably be very reluctant to give up using - is beginning a 1000-day countdown to the end of support from its parent company.

Microsoft has issued just four security bulletins this month, and only one is regarded as critical. A total of 22 vulnerabilities are addressed.

The new financial year kicks off with just four security bulletins from Microsoft. Only one of them is rated critical.

Ok, so Fujitsu actually calls this a 'slate' rather than a tablet, and has aimed it squarely at the enterprise/business user rather than the larger consumer market that 'modern' tablets target, but if you need a Windows 7 tablet to run Windows 7 apps, this is one tab you might take a stab at.

There have been many attempts by a variety of manufacturers to hit the all-in-one media computer sweet-spot, but none have come close, until now.