The May date was first floated by Windows blogger Paul Thurrott and confirmed by technology site The Verge on Monday.

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On Monday night security guards in the office phoned me and said the shop windows had been put through.

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Ubuntu developer Canonical unveiled a new interface on Monday reimagined for touch devices, with a design that borrows cues from Android and Windows 8.

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Witnesses were hard to come by earlier on Monday across the neighborhood, dotted with houses that have barred or boarded-up windows, overgrown lawns and patchy roads in need of paving.

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