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- Quality products are to blame for Linux/Mac popularity
- There have been a few posts on ZDNet in the last couple days relating to Vista rollouts and available alternatives. In particular, Marc Wagner wrote "Is Vista to blame for Mac, Linux popularity?". As he noted, In the end, the conscientious IT department will view the transition from...
- Tags: Open Source, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Is Vista to blame for Mac, Linux popularity?
- A silly question, I know, but I just read Will Vista cause a switch to Macs, Linux? and I was dumbfounded. Here's the premise:The cost of upgrading to Windows Vista is forcing more organizations to evaluate alternatives including Apple Macs and Linux for the desktop.According to the article, Capital & Regional CIO...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Maple 11 now on Vista
- Maplesoft announced today that it had added Vista support for the latest version of its Maple mathematics software (see It runs on OS X, now it runs on Ubuntu...Still no Vista). According to an email sent to Maple customers:Maple™ 11 Windows® Vista™ support is now available at www.maplesoft.com/vista.Maple...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- So when can we get our hands on Ubuntu Dells? And do we want to?
- With quite a bit of fanfare in the geek community, Dell began selling desktops and laptops to consumers today preloaded with Ubuntu 7.04. The fanfare was not so obvious on the Dell homepage - if you didn't know to go directly to www.dell.com/linux, you were out of luck. ...
- Tags: Education Technology, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- When discretion really is the better part of valor
- When you successfully triple boot XP, Vista, and Kubuntu, discretion is most definitely the better part of valor. Tread lightly here, folks, says the man overconfident in his Grub-fixing, partition-resizing, uber-geekness.Suffice to say, XP is gone although I actually was trying to do that, Vista wont boot, but at...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- It runs on OS X, now it runs on Ubuntu...Still no Vista
- Im talking about an application that is near and dear to my heart. Its Maple 11, one of the coolest bits of math software this side of SAS. Maple 11 is the latest and greatest from Maplesoft and handles everything from differential equations to graph theory to statistics....
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Vista...*Sigh*
- I just installed Windows Vista Business on my laptop. Id never advocate being an early adopter at the enterprise level, but Im enough of a geek that I really wanted to get my hands on the latest and greatest. Having played with preview releases, I was certainly impressed...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, CD
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Vista? No thanks, school says, converts Windows boxes to Linux
- Despite the hype around Microsoft Vista, some schools are not convinced its the best thing going. One northern California school has made sweeping changes to the schools IT system, converting 5,000 Windows PCS to run Linux, either as full-powered desktops or thin clients, reports Desktop Linux. Windsor, CA...
- Tags: Thin clients, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista, thin client, Heather Carver, Microsoft Windows, Linux, server, Citrix Systems Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Vista closed for UK schools
- Microsofts Windows Vista and Office 2007 dont offer enough new features to warrant the investment, a British educational survey advisory group found, advising schools against upgrading. Although Microsoft touts huge improvements in its new software, The British Education Communications and Technology Association BECTA report cautions against it,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, Digital media, Digital music, Web browsers, UK School, BECTA, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsofts
- Blog posts 2007-01-12
- Is your school ready for Vista?
- Well, its been a month since I last wrote about Vista in Education IT. (See Adopting Vista won’t be THAT simple.) Since that time, I have installed Vista Enterprise on a fast one-year-old 1GB workstation (w/ WDDM graphics) and on a slow one-year-old 2GB laptop (w/o WDDM). ...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, RAM, workstation
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- Adopting Vista won't be THAT simple
- I just read with interest Universities consider Vista and I just had to laugh when I read that one IT person expected to start deployment of Vista as early as mid-2007. In truth, introducing Vista into a diverse academic environment where Windows XP Pro is firmly entrenched is no...
- Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed, Vista, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
- Universities consider Vista
- How quickly will universities and colleges adopt Vista? If theyre anything like the larger enterprise world, adoption will be slow but pervasive. Microsoft has said that the new OS will be ready for enterprises by the end of the month. According to News.com, a CDW survey found that 86 percent...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Gary Knigge, Microsoft Windows Vista, operating system
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
Additional Resources
- Microsoft Patents Sudo - So Sudo me!
- i do think that it time for some rule and regulation .and some major MS legal bashing . anti-trust Adrian this is shameless self promotionYou would not even have this if a reader had not given it to you. Means nothing but what youre getting out of it, HITS....
- Tags: Idiocy, patent, Microsoft Corp., Adrian
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Relax, kids...Windows 7 is just another OS
- finally...someone with sensefor all this noise and fireworks, finaly someone here says something reasonable7 is just another OSand yes it is.amen.give this man a raiseIt doesn't have to rock to be successfulIt merely needs to be fast, stable and secure. If that's all it does, then there's no reason to...
- Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Nine out of 10 corporate PCs can run Windows 7 ... but that's not the whole story
- RE: Nine out of 10 corporate PCs can run Windows 7 ... but that's not the whole storyMost corporate PCs were not updated to Vista, because Vista didn't add any additional values; required more powerful hardware and had a very bad name from the start.Most companies will also not upgrade...
- Tags: Operating systems, Software Developement, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP, corporate PC, PC, Win7, whole story, operating system, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Netbook or a cheap Compaq for students?
- Re: Netbook or cheap CompaqThe problem I see at least in my organization it is never 1:1. Sometimes I wish we could get away with a netbook or using some of our older desktop hardware for lighter 1:1 usage. We bought a small cart of Netbooks...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Compaq Computer Corp., netbook
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- Windows 7: Good enough to pay for?
- I finally installed the Windows 7 release candidate that the folks from Microsoft were kind enough to pass on a couple weeks ago at the Intel Classmate Ecosystem Summit. I could have installed it on my Mac, but I already have Vista running with Boot Camp with a fair...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-06-27
- Open letter to Microsoft: It's time for a single version of Windows
- Open letter to Microsoft: It's time for a single version of WindowsOne Windows to rule them all........Jason, your suggestion is, in my opinion, an excellent and eminently sensible idea. It won't happen because of three things: profit, greed and Microsoft's concentration on what suits it best rather than the...
- Tags: Operating systems, Tablets, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, single version, Microsoft Corp., Open Letter
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
- WWDC 2009 live
- WWDC 2009 liveCommon baby!And here comes the 240GB iPod classics, *keeps fingers crossed*Or alternatively, a 80GB or so flash iPod classic - you can keep that touch feature and large screen - I need all my music with me at all times, with lots of battery life and that On...
- Tags: Network technology, Digital music, 64-bit, Apple Inc., WWDC 2009, official opinion, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2009-06-08
- Dell's major units take first quarter hits; IT demand indicators 'remain mixed'
- Dell's major business units---public sector, large enterprise, small and medium business and consumer---suffered double digit sales declines in the first quarter as net income fell 63 percent from a year ago. For the first quarter ended May 1, Dell reported earnings of $290 million, or 15 cents...
- Tags: Revenue, Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, IT-spending, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
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