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Amazon will let customers run micro-instances of Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 for free on its EC2 service starting now, according to a new post to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog.

Such try-before-you-buy tactics have helped Amazon win converts to its cloud platform.

The VAR Guy: Plenty of pundits say the cloud runs on Linux.

Step by step Microsoft Windows XP Repair Install instructions.

The structure of the development teams working to build Microsoft Windows 8 could offer clues about what's coming in the next operating system.

HowtoForge: "This is a tutorial for people originally using the Windows Operating System who want to try out Linux Mint 11."

Smartphone sales worldwide rose 74 percent year-over-year in the second-quarter but unit sales of Microsoft Windows Phones slipped, falling behind the Samsung Bada, according to Gartner research.

ERACC Web Log: We don't particularly care for Windows and here are a few reasons why.

By 2015, IDC forecasts Android smartphones will account for 45.4 percent of the worldwide market, followed by devices running the Microsoft Windows Phone/Windows Mobile operating systems with a 20.9 percent market share.

TechRepublic: "The Financial Times reported that Google is phasing out Microsoft Windows on employee desktops. What are the reasons and the security implications?"

Cyber Cynic: "Recently Dell did something amazing. The Austin, TX computer giant admitted on one of their Web pages that "Ubuntu [Linux] is safer than Microsoft Windows." (PDF Link) But, now Dell has backed off to the far more generic "Ubuntu is secure"."