Archive for September 17th, 2008
Sep
17
It takes a fair bit of nerve to charge anything to fix up a botched product, but Microsoft's $14.95 price to get a physical copy of Windows XP Service Pack 3 really takes some beating for sheer gall. While it was released earlier this year, XP SP3 has only recently started being pushed out to Australian
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Sep
17
This Holiday season is certain to be merry considering all the great new products being offered to you from Microsoft Hardware, Vista powered machines and Games for Windows. Check out some of the sexy new Dell laptops, BlueTrack mice and of course...some great games for Windows like Fallout 3 and Lego Batman.
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Sep
17
Microsoft and Cray have teamed up to offer a powerful mix of what each company does best - - the Cray CX1! — a compact supercomputer running Windows HPC Server 2008, that’s what. It’s the most affordable supercomputer Cray has ever offered, with prices starting at $25,000. This exciting new product is available
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Sep
17
The new Xeon 7400 series features four- and six-core configurations designed to be used in systems with at least four processors and is targeted largely toward datacenters and, in particular, virtualization applications.The new Xeon 7400 series, based on Intel's 45 nanometer high-k process (PDF), offers both performance improvements and improved energy efficiency, according to
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Sep
17
Windows Live Mail now features a clean, elegant, simple, complete working Calendar. When you install Windows Live Mail, either for the first time or as an upgrade to an older version, go straight to Calendar. Even though it works in harmony with the online Windows Live Calendar, you’ll want to use the Live Mail version and that’s the beauty of
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Sep
17
The technical briefs and other documents for Windows Home Server have been updated to incorporate new and changed functionality with Windows Home Server Power Pack 1. Technical Briefs are "Level 200" documents designed for a more technical audience as they explain some of the inner-workings and technical and troubleshooting tips for Windows
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Sep
17
A day after embracing cloud computing, VMware announced the general availability of VMware Fusion 2.0, its software for running the Windows operating system on the Mac. Along with touting new features and enhancements from version 1.x, VMware stressed that Fusion 2.0 "makes Windows even safer on the Mac" through its use of automatic virtual machine snapshots
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Sep
17
Microsoft begun a new series on the Windows Home Server web site, starting with Home Computer Backup and Restore to show that using Windows Home Server really is as easy as 1, 2, 3!
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Sep
17
An unannounced white Zune, in both flash (left) and hard drive (right) models. Whilst not apparent in the images above, the hard drive model also comes in both silver and black backings. Hiding in the latest Zune version 3.0 software release resource files, these could
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Sep
17
Gmail is not just an email client, but a rich, searchable database. Think of it as a data mining system. The more data that you allow to flow into Gmail, the more you'll get out of it - if it's organized. Even better all of this information is available across any device and even offline using
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Sep
17
Yes, both Paint and WordPad have finally received the royal treatment. Via permission given to me to remotely access Windows 7 build 6780 to play around a bit, Paint and WordPad both look great and have much-needed updates. I've got to work within the permissions
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Sep
17
Microsoft wants to take what it has learned about secure software development in-house and share its insights with others. The company will offer up guidance and a tool based on Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), a security assurance process unveiled in 2004 and serving as an evolution of the company's Trustworthy Computing initiative. Deliverables include Microsoft SDL Threat
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Sep
17
Chromium is an open-source browser project for Linux and OS X systems that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web. The Chromium codebase is the basis for Google’s Chrome browser that runs the Windows version of Chromium natively on both Mac
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Sep
17
LiveWorld hopes there’s a market in handling that task. And now it is releasing LiveBar, which is a way to overlay bare bones social networking functions on any web page within minutes.
LiveBar isn’t much to look at. It’s just a black bar that runs across the bottom of a web page. But it enables
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Sep
17
With the new wave of RIA, the applications are relying more on JavaScript for the rich user experience. The two key factors which influence the performance a.k.a end user experience are: JavaScript and the Client Processing Speed. With a standard client processor, it is not very uncommon to find plateau of high CPU utilization on the
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