Microsoft has struggled to persuade users to migrate from Windows 7 to Windows 8 ever since the latest version of the company's flagship product was released in October 2012.

Gmail, Google's email service, is one of the most popular of its kind in the world.

One of the major international technology industry events, Computex, is underway in Taipei, Taiwan, as computer manufacturers gather to show off their latest products.

Although solid state drives (SSD) do have numerous benefits over traditional hard disk (HDD) equivalents, the one drawback is that they tend to cost more per gigabyte.