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• Retailer leaks some Windows 10 prices

  Online retailer <em>Newegg.com</em> this weekend revealed some Windows 10 pricing information, and began taking pre-orders for the operating system, even though Microsoft hasn't disclosed a release date.

• Black Friday: Newegg axes prices on laptops, desktops, tablets and more

  Online retailer <a href="http://www.newegg.com/">Newegg</a> has beaten the Black Friday 2014 rush by revealing deals on brand name laptops, desktops, tablets and other products geared toward both hardcore gamers and everyday tech users.

• Newegg takes pre-orders for Samsung's first 3D Pro SSD

  Newegg has begun taking orders for Samsung's most advanced solid state drive (SSD), a model that uses stacked, or three dimensional, NAND flash for greater performance and endurance over previous models based on conventional NAND flash.

• Google, Dropbox band together to fight patent trolls

  Google, Dropbox and a few other high-tech firms have come up with a new way to help defend themselves against patent trolls.

• SSDs <i>do</i> die, as Linus Torvalds just discovered

  Linux coder Linus Torvalds wrote this week about how the SSD in his workstation suddenly stopped working, forcing him to delay work on the Linux 3.12 kernel.

• US appeals court asks whether to limit software patents

  Should an abstract idea written into software and run on a computer be patentable? That's one question a U.S. appeals court will consider Friday when it hears arguments in a case with broad implications for software patents for companies as diverse as Google and Red Hat.

• MacroSolve adds Sears to companies sued for patent infringement

  MacroSolve, an Oklahoma company focused on enforcing its patents, has added Sears to a growing list of companies it has targeted with patent infringement lawsuits, it said Wednesday.

• Windows 8 discounts end in three weeks

  Microsoft's Windows 8 Pro upgrade discount will expire in about three weeks, at which point the company will triple or even quintuple the current price of the new operating system, according to several online retailers.

• Hard drive prices slide as Thai flood aftermath subsides

  The price of the most popular hard disk drives are beginning to drop as inventories climb out of a deep hole that began in October after massive flooding <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221717/PC_makers_should_brace_for_drive_shortages">shut down major production sites in Thailand</a> .