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January

Adobe adds 3D printing support in Photoshop CC

SteamOS beta now supports non-UEFI systems and dual-booting

China launches government-approved mobile operating system

95 percent of the world's ATMs still run Windows XP

February

Mozilla to sell advertising in Firefox browser

Github unveils Atom text editor for developers

March

VLC launches on Windows 8, no Windows RT support just yet

Microsoft makes Office for Android and iPhone free for home users

Microsoft accidentally leaks Windows 8.1 Update 1 early

Microsoft releases early source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows

Microsoft launches OneNote for Mac, now free across all platforms

Malwarebytes pledges to provide lifetime support for XP users

Mozilla kills Metro version of Firefox, says shipping the browser "would be a mistake"

April

Here's the security software Snowden is using to evade the NSA

May

Time4Popcorn launches Popcorn Time for Android

Microsoft demos real-time language translation for Skype

June

64-bit Chrome browser arrives for Windows, said to be faster with better security and stability

July

Linux Foundation announces open source in-car infotainment platform

Popcorn Time's Netflix-style movie torrents coming to the big screen with Chromecast support

Mozilla's new Mozjpeg 2.0 image encoder improves JPEG compression

August

Google Chrome goes 64-bit, improves Windows font rendering

Microsoft to end support for old versions of Internet Explorer next year

September

Windows 10 is the name of Microsoft's next-generation operating system

Office 16 to include Clippy's spiritual successor, a new darker theme and more

October

Mozilla's new Firefox Hello feature lets users conduct video, audio calls for free

Install Windows 95 on your smartwatch to make it even more useless

Windows 10 features new trackpad gestures straight from OS X

Firefox 33 brings H.264 support, lets you send videos to Chromecast and Roku devices from Android

Google Hangouts makes it to the desktop with a dedicated app

Google wants to help manage your e-mails with new Inbox app

Opera's desktop browser gets a visual overhaul in version 25

November

Microsoft now offers Office for free on mobile devices, launches Android tablet Preview

Mozilla flips the switch on Firefox browser ads

Windows 10 will cater to audiophiles with native FLAC support

Time4Popcorn claims it's now impossible to take down

Freemium model shoots Microsoft Office apps to the top of the App Store

Mozilla shuns Google, signs five-year deal to make Yahoo the default search engine in Firefox

Microsoft and Dropbox team up to offer direct Office integration

December

First pictures, video of Cortana running in Windows 10 surface

Say goodbye to VLC as Windows 8.1 gets native MKV support

Firefox 34 arrives with Yahoo as the default search engine in North America

Skype's real-time translator feature goes live with support for spoken English and Spanish

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