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Archive for March 2nd, 2008

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Mar 2

The new audio offering from Asustek delivers 7.1 channels and a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) that can go as much as 35 times cleaner than onboard audio solutions. The output specifications are also attractive: the card can reach a SNR of 116dB,

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Microsoft has some big plans for the small-sized storage devices. Microsoft is working on turning USB-based flash drives into a “Windows companion” — a new product known as “StartKey” — that will allow users to carry their Windows and Windows Live settings with them. StartKey isn’t just for USB sticks; it also will work on other flash-storage devices,

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You might be running Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2 Domain Controllers at the moment and you're looking to replace these servers with Windows Server 2008 Domain Controllers to utilize the new features of Windows Server 2008. You might also be looking to replace your aging Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2

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Eric Lawrence presented the User-Agent string for the beta version of Internet Explorer 8 which will be available later this year. The RSS Platform will also introduce an updated User-Agent string for use with the IE8 beta. For details on the RSS Platform User-Agent string in IE7 please take a look at my past

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Here's one of the more intriguing tidbits in the hundreds of pages of emails released as part of the Vista "junk PC" lawsuit: A Microsoft exec freely admits that users are so annoyed with User Account Control (UAC), that they're turning it off en masse.The recently unsealed Microsoft emails are part

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Thirteen23 has put together a very compelling Vista application for managing your MIX08 conference schedule.  Take advantage of their creative schedule management alternative by downloading it here.  Additionally, they have created a companion application called Continuum which integrates MSN Messenger into the sidebar. Both applications take advantage of the Aero

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The brand-new PlayStation 3 from Sony is surely one of the best recipes for having fun. If the average user would enjoy setting off into a difficult mission with Solid Snake in the Metal Gear series or smashing  some alien creatures in the Alien versus Predator,

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Hyper-V uses a hypervisor-based architecture and leverages the driver model of Windows for broad hardware support. The hypervisor partitions a server into containers of CPU and memory. As a micro-kernel, it provides mechanisms for inter-partition communication upon which our new high-performance synthetic I/O architecture is built. The

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Zumobi has developed a web browsing application, which is transforming the mobile lifestyle; giving people a new way to engage, consume, and interact with web content through a revolutionary mobile user experience and information ecosystem. Zumobi uses widgets (“Tiles”) to deliver content in a

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Spelling out which features of Windows Vista would work on a given PC might be useful to early adopters, but would only "confuse the masses," a high-level Microsoft manager argued more then a year before the operating system shipped, according to internal company e-mails. In a short exchange in November 2005, Brad Goldberg, then the

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Windows Vista has been an all-around disappointment and even those with SP1 have reason to complain. Those with problems are probably more outspoken than those that don’t but the issues keep piling up and Microsoft does little about them. This program may brighten up your Vista experience a tiny bit. Real Desktop comes it two

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There is one theory that suggests customers will hold off their migrations to Windows Server 2008 until the Hyper-V virtualization role is in place later this year. Microsoft, naturally, has a different view of the server's early potential. Bill Laing, general manager in Microsoft's Windows Server division, said at the launch of Windows Server 2008,

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Those that have been writing websites for some time remember all too well the period of time when Microsoft over took Netscape's lead in the web browser market, by giving Internet Explorer away for free (and integrating it into the Windows Operating System). The problem, that went on for many

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Media server streaming devices have quite started to show up on the market recently, and each addition seems to bring more and more nifty features to the home-theater PC enthusiast. Most of the media  servers are wired devices, that will add an extra layer of cables under the

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I took a look at MSN – oops, Windows Live -- yesterday, something I try to do every year or so (which puts me ahead of most people, apparently). What I saw reminded me why spending $44 billion on Yahoo! isn't going to make Microsoft competitive with Google. I love Google's

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