Microsoft Corp launched Windows 7 on Thursday in its most important release for more than a decade, aiming to win back customers after the disappointing Vista and strengthen its grip on the PC market.

The world's largest software company, which powers more than 90 percent of personal computers, has received good reviews for the new operating system, which it hopes will grab back the impetus in new technology from rivals Apple Inc and Google Inc.

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Google and Microsoft have more than each other to contend with in the lucrative market for Internet advertising. Increasingly, when Web surfers want information online, they're bypassing those rectangular search boxes on the home pages of Google (GOOG) and Microsoft's (MSFT) Bing and getting it instead from places where they already spend lots of time: social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook.

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The latest versions of the five major most web browsers (Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Google Chrome 3.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0, Opera 10.0, and Apple Safari 4.0) went head to head under six performance indicators: JavaScript speed, average CPU usage under stress, DOM selection, CSS rendering speed, page load time, and browser cache performance.

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Researchers at Gartner (via AppleInsider) are predicting that the global market share for Google's Android mobile OS could overtake the iPhone's in a little over two years, with Android poised to leapfrog Apple into the No. 2 spot.

That would leave the iPhone in the No. 3 position—right where it is now, behind BlackBerry and Nokia's Symbian OS, according to Gartner. The industry researchers believe that by 2012, Research in Motion (the company behind the BlackBerry) will have lost 7 percent of its market share, causing it to slip into fifth place (behind even Windows Mobile). Android, meanwhile, will get a 12.9-percent boost to become the No. 2 smartphone platform in the world, with Symbian still safe in the No. 1 spot (with a dominating, although dwindling, 39 percent of the global market).

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I saw Windows 7 for the first time on October 26, 2008 at a press briefing just ahead of Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. I had all of a day to use the pre-beta build and then stayed up most of the following night to have my first look ready for publication two days later.

Since then, I’ve personally installed, tweaked, and used beta and Release Candidate versions of Windows 7 on no fewer than 15 desktop and notebook PCs. At any given time, I have also had a dozen or so Windows 7 virtual machines running under three different virtualization platforms, plus a couple of Windows servers (one for business, one for home).

I began using what turned out to be the RTM build about a week before Microsoft officially announced that Windows 7 had been released to manufacturing on July 22. So, for nearly three solid months, I’ve been running the final, RTM version of Windows 7 on six desktop PCs and four notebooks here, using them for a variety of roles.

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