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Microsoft TV dealt blow down under

Microsoft TV dealt blow down underMicrosoft TV dealt blow down underI'd have to see this technology in action first before I'd order such a technology. If its anything like steaming video thats on the web now then I'll have to pass.Microsoft Kills Antivirus Support For Unix/Linuxhttp://slashdot.org/articles/05/06/22/1751233.shtml?tid=109&tid=1Figures ZDNet wouldn't cover...

Tags: Operating systems, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Corp., Figures ZDNet, Microschieza, Unix, Microsoft TV, Microsoft Windows, TV

Discussion threads 2005-06-22

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Sun sees drop in server market

All top 5 server vendors globally saw declines in revenue and shipment in the third quarter of 2009, with Sun Microsystems registering the biggest fall, according to latest figures from Gartner. All top 5 server vendors globally saw declines in revenue and shipment in the third quarter of 2009,...

Tags: Revenue, Sun Microsystems Inc., Gartner Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Hardware, Sun, servers, Gartner, Liau Yun Qing ZDNet Asia

News items 2009-12-01

Apple Black Friday prices fizzle

What's up with Harry Fuller? 8 out of the 20 blogs right now?I count 20 blogs on this screen, and 8 of them are eco-farts from Harry Fuller. Non IT.Can someone remove his gaia-pollution from ZDNet please?(and my apologies for this off-topic post).Maybe he's taking advantage of everyone's 4 day...

Tags: Blogging, Black Friday, Apple Inc., massive price cut, rumour

Discussion threads 2009-11-27

Let's get rid of usernames and passwords for good

RE: Let's get rid of usernames and passwords for goodIf you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology. -Bruce SchneierCommon sense & best practicesFirst off social networking sites are a DISASTER waiting to happen, private data into a...

Tags: password, security

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Ballmer: Windows 7 sales on a roll

Oh boy... this should be a fun Talkback... ntntyeap...for sure we'll be hearing what everyone has already said "ad nauseum".BallSack is a MoronPlain and Simple.I'm sure Win7 sales are decent. After all, it's hard to get an OS-less computer.....It is easy enough to get linuxpre-installed.Or buy a MacHowever,...

Tags: Sales strategy, Operating systems, Mac sale, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Linux, sales, Steve Ballmer, Windows 7 sale, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

News to know: Logitech-LifeSize; Macworld; Droid sales; Tandberg; e-book readers

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Larry Dignan: Logitech gobbles up LifeSize; Enters video conferencing Dave Greenfield: Logitech Buys LifeSize. Now what about Polycom?...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Sales, Ryan Naraine, Sam Diaz, E-book Reader, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-11-11

Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?

I hope soI hate seeing "SoandSo killing X amount of jobs" in the news =/Ballmer should be the first to get laid offHis reklessness to ignore the FOSS and cling to the proprietary model drove M$ into the ground.Q1 revenues of $13Bn generating $3.5Bn in net profit ...... would tend...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Creative accounting, Microsoft Corp., layoff

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

CNN.com launches cleaner, more personalized design

A lot of blank space.Interesting.But a lot of blank space on a large monitor. I *do* wish news organizations would use the whole screen rather than a single long column.Especially as screens are getting *wider* not taller.Even ZDNet is annoying in this area.Cleaner???? Not sure I would call it that...

Tags: CNN

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

Windows 7's latest fan: Linus Torvalds

This is great news! This picture is proof positive that Linus T. is ditching linux because it was so bloated and scarey that he is converting to Microsoft Windows 7. If the leader of linux is doing it then we can say it won't be long before the rest...

Tags: Operating systems, Happy Days, Linus Torvalds, Linus, Microsoft Windows 7, Linux, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Apple announces most profitable quarter ever: Q4 2009

Q4 early?Doesn't Q4 end Dec. 31st? Shouldn't these figures be for Q3??yathats what i was thinking. How could they know their earnings before the Quarter is even over? RE: Apple announces most profitable quarter ever: Q4 2009I find it intrestering how the typical apple user is the berkinstock wearing...

Tags: Desktops, Win7, Apple Inc., hardware, PC

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Conference alert: let's make SOA work for a living

Welcome to Service Oriented Architecture, Phase 2. It's bigger, It's badder, it's all business.  None of this namby-pamby JBOWs stuff. None of these SOAPY-REST tantrums. SOA is all grown up now, and it's time it starts earning the bacon. I am serving as conference chair and...

Tags: SOA, Conference, Dave Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Gartner: Windows 7 is 'all but inevitable'

Completely Disagree with Gartner's Recommendations...I would be skipping Vista at this point, and aborting all Vista deployment plans. Why? Simple...Any IT staff that is deploying Vista en mass to their enterprises bought it with Volume Licensing, which means they probably bought it with Software Assurance... better to use those support...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), gartner, Microsoft Windows Vista, Win 7, Microsoft Windows 7, Gartner Inc., Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Behind the GOP revolt on health care

ZDNET is not a LIBERAL soap box...Treat it like the TECH blog its supposed to be.You want to talk the merits of tech in medicine - I'm there.If you just use your position as a writer to spout your liberal views, you're doing the site a disservice.that's FUDThere is no...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Blogging, NOW IT, Dems, GOP, tax, health care, blog

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Republicans protest net neutrality rules, fearing a chilling effect on broadband investment (or was it profits?)

Let the whining by the Neo-Cons begin. nt:-(RE: Republicans protest net neutrality rules, fearing a chilling effect on broadband investment (or was it profits?)bingoKeep your damn politics out of itCan't we just discuss technology issues without injecting our political views? There are valid arguments on both sides; let's focus...

Tags: Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, net neutrality rule, broadband investment, broadband, Net Neutrality

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Cellulosic ethanol, corn, etc.

Not related to ZDNet. So why are you blogging here?ZDNET says of itself:"ZDNet: Tech News, Blogs and White Papers for IT Professionals." and "Where Technology Means Business: ZDNet delivers the best tech news, and resources for IT hardware, software, networking and services."Given the above, why are you here,...

Tags: Blogging, blog

Discussion threads 2009-10-04

The coming "big crunch" - IT systems will start failing on a large scale

ScaremongeringAll that was missing - the placard reading 'The End of the World is Nigh'.So my critical, clustered systems are going to start failing are they? Why did I cluster them then?My RAID arrays are going to start failing are they? Why did I go RAID then? And have I...

Tags: RAID, Hewlett-Packard Co., IT System, power supply, information technology, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Global warming: relax, nothing is going to happen

RE: Global warming: relax, nothing is going to happen...When a leading proponent for one point of view suddenly starts batting for the other side, it's usually newsworthy.So why was a speech last week by Prof. Mojib Latif of Germany's Leibniz Institute not given more prominence?Latif is one of the leading...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Bing usage jumps 22 percent, now at 10 percent share

Gains are only in the US marketBing is still an insignificant player on the global scene. And if that weren't enough, Google's destined to dominate smartphone Internet searches as well. So, how much did MicroHoo Search Drop ???Article would have been better if it showed MoM market share change.RE: Bing...

Tags: SEARCH, Bing

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Six days in and first Snow Leopard update seeded to devs

LIAR!!!!Macs don't have issues/bugs/flaws/etc! This update is a performance/feature update! /sarcasmBad ApplesWith a limited number of hardware and software permutations, it is dissapointing how poorly Apples quality control performs. Did they just find out these bugs except for the Flash fiasco that is unlikely given that they already have fixes...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows 7, Kudo, Snow Leopard, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Snow Leopard launch seems to have been a smooth one

PICNICAfter many years supporting various systems, I am positive that theroot of the majority of issues can be described with the acronym PICNIC...Been running Snow Leopard since last Friday with absolutely no problems - even my HP PhotoSmart printer works really well!Then maybe we should...Then maybe we should ship your...

Tags: Web browsers, Printers, E-mail, E-mail servers, Snow Leopard, CS2, Mozilla Firefox, Firefox 3.5.2

Discussion threads 2009-09-02