http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/26/acer.sees.win.7.as.modest.help/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/aceraspire3935-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Acer chief Gianfranco Lanci told the press on Thursday that Windows 7 has had a noticeable but small impact on sales. The executive estimates that holiday PC sales should jump about 25 percent versus last year, when the economic crash hurt sales, but that they should only be flat compared to this summer. Much of the forecast was calculated after gauging the feature set early on.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/26/acer.sees.win.7.as.modest.help/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/25/imac.windows.7.timing.help.apple.sales/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/imac27inch-logo.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Mac desktops represented nearly half of all desktops sold at US retail shops in October, the NPD Group said in a new study. About 47.7 percent of desktop revenue was from iMacs, Mac minis or Mac Pros, an increase from 45 percent in April and a sharp surge from just 33 percent in October 2008. Mac notebooks also saw a sequential gain from 30 percent in April to 34 percent last month, though this ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/25/imac.windows.7.timing.help.apple.sales/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/24/msi.x430.runs.dual.core.amd.hardware/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/msix-slimx430.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />MSI tonight added another mid-size model to its X-Slim ultraportables. An upgrade of the X410, the X430 doubles up on processor cores and uses the Athlon Neo X2. It still uses Radeon HD 3200 graphics with HDMI output but should face less of a burden by coming with Windows 7 Home Premium in place of Vista.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/24/msi.x430.runs.dual.core.amd.hardware/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/24/microsoft.sets.up.pc.booth.at.saks.5th/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/microsoftsaks.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft made a tentative step into a retail presence on the East coast with a special section at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City. The section replicates a small slice of Microsoft's retail shops in the West and shows notebooks running Windows 7. It will also have staff on hand to answer questions about both the notebooks and the OS.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/24/microsoft.sets.up.pc.booth.at.saks.5th/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/23/gartner.sees.pc.sales.back.up.in.2009/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/aceraspireoned250-android.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The economy has bounced back quickly enough that the computer business will have seen a slight boost this year, Gartner said in a study published on Monday. The analyst group estimates that shipments will have overall climbed 2.8 percent in 2009 to about 298.9 million computers. It marks a sharp reversal from a forecast as late as September that had computers sinking 2 percent. A recovery of th... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/23/gartner.sees.pc.sales.back.up.in.2009/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/20/next.windows.again.on.3.year.schedule/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/windows8-roadmap.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft should once again release its next mainstream version of Windows about three years after the last, a roadmap obtained this week reveals. The schedule has the major revision, tentatively titled "Windows 8," launching in 2012 or about three years after Windows 7. It will purportedly keep in step with a rhythm developed by Microsoft that has Microsoft launching major releases four years a... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/20/next.windows.again.on.3.year.schedule/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/20/ms.refutes.talk.of.nsa.made.security.hole/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/windows7ultimate-photo.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft in a response late Thursday rejected assertions that it has put in a security "backdoor" at the request of the National Security Agency. The denial comes after the NSA's information assurance lead, Richard Schaeffer, told a US Senate terrorism subcommittee that the agency had worked with Microsoft to improve Windows 7's "security guide" and sparked fears that the government had delibera... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/20/ms.refutes.talk.of.nsa.made.security.hole/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/19/dell.hurt.by.acer.corporate.fears/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/delladamoxps.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Dell today posted disappointing results for its latest quarter ended in October. The company saw its year-over-year revenue drop 15 percent to about $12.9 billion and its net income drop even further, falling 54 percent to $337 million. Both decreases were blamed on poor results both in the public sector and in its staple home PC business, where its shipments were up about 17 percent compared to... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/19/dell.hurt.by.acer.corporate.fears/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/19/ms.shareholder.meeting.shows.share.worries/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/steveballmer-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer today warned at a yearly shareholders' meeting that the company needed to improve the standing of Windows in the future. The executive was emphatic that Microsoft was still in a comfortable position with "96 out of 100" choosing Windows worldwide but acknowledged that Apple had cut into Microsoft's share in the past year. He downplayed the amount, labeling it a "a c... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/19/ms.shareholder.meeting.shows.share.worries/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/19/windows.home.server.power.pack.3.coming.soon/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/winhs.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft announced on Thursday it will soon release Power Pack 3 for Windows Home Server. The update is meant to improve the integration of Windows Home Server with Windows 7 and Windows Media Center by allowing backup and restore of Windows 7 comptuers, Windows 7 Libraries integration, new features in Media Center and added support for netbooks. Windows Home Server is meant for network-attached ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/19/windows.home.server.power.pack.3.coming.soon/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:35:00 GMT