Finally, iPhone users can rush over to the apps store and download the Windows Live Messenger iPhone App that has just been released by Microsoft.

The free-to-download app will allow the user to sign into their account on the iPhone and carry on their online conversations with their friends, as they would be doing if they were sitting at their PC.

The app allows the user to check their Hotmail email account and upload images to share with friends via the handset’s image library.

It has also been announced that Microsoft will be launching a separate Hotmail app, although for many users this will not be needed as they already use the push email service.

The messenger app has been launched just in time for the release of the iPhone 4.

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It is being widely reported that the search giant Google are removing Windows from its desktop PC’s in order to eliminate the risk of security breaches.

Google have around twenty thousand employees around the world, all of whom use or have access to computers, but now they will be given the choice of using a Linux based OS or switching to an Apple computer.

This brings up a question, why isn’t Google using its own OS Chrome?

Whatever way this is looked at, it is a serious blow to Microsoft, according to the software company, Google are using this in an attempt to bring on the Chrome operating system.

However, there are other businesses that are doing the same thing and the reason is security especially the hacker attacks from China.

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Google uninstalls Windows

Google is going to be phasing out Windows as the operating system of choice on its staff’s computers.

So the Financial Times reports, the reason being a simple matter: Security concerns.

Apparently this shift away from Microsoft’s OS began at the start of the year, which was of course when the infamous China and Google hacking incident was at its peak.

A Google employee told the FT that many workers have already been shifted away from Windows based PCs, the majority onto Macs (although there’s no love lost between Google and Apple), some onto Linux.

Microsoft isn’t making any comment at this stage.

Part of the problem with Windows is that its popularity – just as with Internet Explorer – makes it the major target for malware authors.

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Google shows Windows the door

Google’s mobile operating system has surpassed Microsoft’s OS when it comes to the smartphone market worldwide.

Android was the fourth most popular smartphone OS last quarter, according to Gartner, with almost 10% of the market.

It knocked Windows Mobile into fifth spot, as it only managed a 7% share.

This isn’t too surprising, as recent North American sales figures from NPD had showed that Android had even managed to overtake the iPhone in the US.

In global terms, Apple’s iPhone OS is still in third place, although given Android’s explosive growth across a number of handsets, it’s likely to be challenging Apple worldwide soon enough.

Top of the tree was Symbian, which still has the market well sown up with almost half of all smartphones, followed by Rim.

Microsoft is about to strike back, however, with the release of the much more consumer-friendly Windows Phone 7, which the company hopes will reverse its fortunes.

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Android powers past Windows on smartphones

One of the reasons why Linux can never catch up to Windows is its inability to play mainstream, popular games. Linux is powerful, safe, and secure. But Windows PCs are preferred specially by the gaming crowd. I’ve been a user of Linux, and I know that Linux has plenty of games. What these people usually mean is that it doesn’t have their favorite Windows games – but now, that’s changing.

For years now, it has been possible to play selected popular Windows games on Linux via Wine. But one can never run these games natively, unless a proper port to Linux is available.

Two recent developments have made it even easier to run Windows games on Linux though. The first, as reported by Phoronix, is that Valve, makers of the Steam gaming system and content delivery platform, will be releasing a Steam client to Linux later this summer. While you could run Steam on Linux before, it was both slow and difficult to set up properly.

The Steam Linux client is already available in a closed beta. And 3D graphical card support on Linux has improved, which will help give players a good game experience. Linux users can look forward to playing native versions of such popular games as Quake Wars, Doom 3. Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, and Team Fortress 2.

The other development is that CodeWeavers has released a new and significantly improved version of Crossover Games. CrossOver Games is based on the open-source project Wine, an implementation of the Windows API that runs on top of the Unix/Linux operating system family.

You can run Windows games on Linux, including Steam-based ones, with Wine alone, but you’ll need to be an expert Linux user and have a good idea of what each game demands from its environment to pull those tricks off. The new version 9.0 features an easier-to-user game installation routine, thousands of minor improvements, and a feature that lets gamers share ‘Compatibility Profiles,’ or ‘c4p’ files. These enable users to create and share custom set-up recipes for officially unsupported games, so that others can install them without having to get their hands dirty with finicky customized set-up.

The net result, CodeWeavers promises, is that you can now play a good deal many more Windows games on Linux and the ones you could play before are now more responsive.

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Playing Popular Windows Games in Linux Becomes Easier