Microsoft Corp., in a recent press conference, said Windows 7 is complete. Reps for the company also said that they have sent the final code for its next computer operating system to manufacturers Wednesday, and said it’s still on track for its launch this year.

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Google Inc. announced that they are working on a new operating system for inexpensive computers in an attempt to lessen Microsoft’s longstanding control over the OS war.

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Microsoft will give a select group of testers an early peek to their Office 2010 software, the follow-up to the successful 2007 version. However, they will be keeping a key development by holding free Web-based versions of programs such as MS Word and MS Excel under wraps a little while longer. This preview indicates that the software is still on track for release in the early part of next year.

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BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay has been sold for $7.7 million to Sweden’s Global Gaming Factory X AB. The deal also includes file-sharing tech firm Peerialism. The deal with GGF was confirmed Tuesday on the Pirate Bay’s website blog.

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After news of the King of Pop Michael Jackson’s death, Internet fraudsters and hackers got to work.Scams started cropping up almost instantaneously as Jackson’s death was still hitting the news. As days have gone by, they’ve gotten more sophisticated and more dangerous.

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