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This week at technology conferences in the United States and Taipei, Microsoft Corp demonstrated its latest operating system codenamed Windows 8. Meantime, some PC makers were very upset with the requirement imposed by the Redmond company related to the involvement of vendors in the system development.

Microsoft plans to launch the new system with touchscreen features optimized for tablet computers within the following 18 months. But it told chipmakers who want to use the system for tablets to work with only one manufacturer to speed up the delivery.

MacBook Pros are due to be updated with new Intel silicon, that represent new mobile Core i5 and/or Core i7 processors.

A lot of PC producers, like Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba, Dell, and Sony have already shifted to the Intel chips, first introduced in January.

Currently, the speculation seems more legal because blogs are citing new MacBook part numbers that Macrumors says it has independently confirmed as real. Others also seem to be taking the new data seriously.

Having intrigued the public for some time yesterday Microsoft Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co at last unveiled their partnership for providing cloud computing services to companies. The two companies will integrate their software and hardware offerings for companies looking to move their applications and data online.

 What comes to your mind when you see an image of an apple as a logo on the packing? Do you think that inside this box there may be apples? Of course, you don’t. Almost everyone today knows that an apple on the logo with a bite taken from the right side is a symbol of the technological genius of Steve Jobs and others who founded the truly unique company with the characteristic name Apple.

 Mobile phone manufacturers will soon meet a new competitor in the face of the US largest PC maker Dell. According to a source the company plans to introduce Android based smartphone on carrier AT&T's network.

While the move will help Google boost its operation platform it may be a hard task for Dell to conquer its niche in the overfull mobile phone market.

 Dell announced the availability of the world’s lightest and thinnest 16in machine that measures 396 x 272 x 20mm and weighs 2kg. Its new Latitude Z has a 1600 x 900 display and can be fitted with either a 1.4GHz or 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

The company reported that it can slot up to 4GB of DDR 3 memory into the Latitude Z and equip it with dual SSDs – each with a capacity of up to 256GB. Graphics are delivered courtesy of Intel’s Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD.