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As expected and wished for, HP won’t use Windows 7 in their incoming HP Slate , but their newly acquired Palm WebOS . At least, that’s what Monty Wong—vice-president of personal computing systems at HP Taiwan—said to Digitimes. More

Courier’s dead , but that doesn’t mean Microsoft’s done with tablets—Mary Jo Foley’s digging for more info on Menlo , a Microsoft project to replace Windows CE (inside Windows Phone ) with a mobile version of Windows NT , like for tablets. More

Your OS drives your whole PC experience, so it’s your job as an enthusiast to keep it in a high state of tune. Here’s how to do just that with Windows 7 . More

Well! A new PSA in Australia claims that “everytime you use your mobile phone while driving, gingers get fresh…with other gingers.” Which explains why Herrman and Buchanan spend so much time together. It’s your fault, car texters! [ Buzzfeed via TheAwl ] More

The most interesting parts of Microsoft’s Mix conference have come to a close, leaving us with two steaming news lumps: One for Windows Phone 7 , and one for Internet Explorer 9 . Here’s what’s in them! More

If this morning’s news of Internet Explorer 9′s support for HTML5 and video acceleration got you excited, and you happen to run Windows XP , prepare to get unexcited: You won’t be able to install it on your OS. Sorry! [ IE9 ] More

We love Hulu. And we wish it lived on TVs, phones, tablets and places other than laptops. StreamTransport, a Windows Hulu ripper, is a start. Get the software before it’s inevitably shut down

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How To Download Hulu TV and Movies For Good [Software]

If the terrorists could vote, they’d vote for Candidate X— this argument is America’s greatest rhetorical treasure. So let’s apply it to smartphones, right now! I’ve got a picture of a high-level terrorist with an iPhone and everything! Updated The man pictured here is the recently captured Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef , who is world famous for precisely the kind of stuff that you don’t want to be famous for.

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Taliban Leader, iPhone User [Flamebait]

These fresh images and details of Microsoft’s Courier paint a slightly different device than the one uncovered a few months ago —tinier, perhaps less genre-busting, and a more direct iPad fighter. This take is built on the same mobile OS core as Windows Phone 7 and Zune HD, powered by Nvidia’s Tegra 2 hardware . It’s supposedly thinner than an inch, under a pound, and about the size of a 5×7 photo when closed

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Microsoft Courier’s Devolution [Microsoft]

LG’s first Windows Phone 7 handset, which got shown off recently in the sweaty palm of a Microsoft director at the Engadget Show, will be called the LG Panther . Apparently.

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LG’s First Windows Phone 7 Handset Will Be Called Panther? [Windows Phone 7 Series]