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- Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
- Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarkingoffice 2007not totally pertinent to the discussion, but office 2007, specifically excel, is slower than office 2003 on xp or vista.i have excel code that takes twice as long to execute in office 2007 than it does in office 2003. the os...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Office 2007 benchmarking, Vista RTM, benchmarking
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
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- Study: Windows 7 can boot more slowly than Vista
- Windows Boot UpWell you know I think that the average user understand the boot up scenario.the more crap you add to your PC the longer it will take to become usable.All of those little dormant services being energized.Hell a clean install of Windows 7 on a Dell 530s with 4...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- Benchmarks: Windows 7 RTM versus Vista, XP
- Benchmarks: Windows 7 RTM versus Vista, XPWhy are results for XP missing from multimedia tests?are we just supposed to take it on your word? Well, here at zdnet, no one does benchmarks like Mr. Adrian. I wonder why did he not repeat a usability benchmark for RTM like he did...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7 RTM, Vista XP, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-08-03
- Living with a netbook: The performance penalty
- No one claims that netbooks can match the performance of laptops that cost hundreds or even thousands more. The real question is whether the performance of a netbook is good enough. Over the past few weeks, I've been doing some testing on five netbooks with 10-inch displays:...
- Tags: Performance, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- 10 things Linux does better than OS X
- Guest post via TechRepublic's 10 things blog. OS X is heralded for its friendliness, but it falls short in many other respects. Find out why Linux is superior in everything from flexibility to portability to cost. It may sound strange, seeing as how OS X...
- Tags: Operating System, Machine, Mandriva Spring 2008, Linux Keyboard, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Apple Mac OS, Jack Wallen
- Blog posts 2008-12-19
- Fixing Windows Vista, Part 4: Get smart about services
- Fixing Windows Vista, Part 4: Get smart about servicesHave you benchmarked the performance differences ...... that you see when you disable Superfetch, Windows Defender and Windows Search? Last time I benchmarked a system with and without Windows Defender I saw no difference (outside of statistical 'noise').I'm not saying that...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Printers, Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Defender, Fixing Windows Vista, Get Smart, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- Vista SP1 - Benchmarking round-up
- Given that I've made numerous posts relating to benchmarking Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) on this blog over the past few weeks I thought that many readers would appreciate a single post that pulled together all the individual posts and which drew together the thoughts, findings and conclusions from the individual...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, 32-bit, 64-bit, Benchmarking, Microsoft Windows XP, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Vista, Service Pack, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Remote Desktop Connection, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- XP SP2 vs. Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1: Gaming benchmark
- Here are the benchmark results that many of you have been waiting for - a look at how well ten popular games work on XP SP2, Vista RTM and Vista SP1. It's been nearly a year since I took a look at the state of gaming under...
- Tags: Game, Microsoft Windows XP, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- News to know: Windows Server 2008 launch; Hotmail outage; Berners-Lee on semantic Web; Apple
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft courts open-source vendors to support Win Server 2008. Jason Perlow: Server 2008: The Windows Workstation we always wanted Outage hits Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger users Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with...
- Tags: Google Inc., MSN Hotmail, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Server, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Photograph, Outage, Apple MacBook Pro, Microsoft Windows, Semantic Web, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Internet
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
- Enough with benchmarking the OS - let's see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1. The test The tests will be carried out on the AMD Spider platform that I have set up in the lab (Phenom 9700, Radeon 3850 graphics card, 2GB...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Benchmarking, Microsoft Office, Problem, Goal, Microsoft Windows Vista, Test, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Video highlights: JavaOne and Software 2007
- Our cameras have been rolling as JavaOne and Software 2007 took place this week. Following are some of the highlights we captured:Ballmer talks up Office Business Applications solution At Software 2007 in Santa Clara, Calif., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer looks at an OBA prototype from Dassault Systemes. The lifecycle management...
- Tags: Sun, SAP, Open Source, Microsoft, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Virtualization fits in small business
- Virtualization fits in small businessItanicThis is an excellent article. It deserves wide distribution. The story of the Itanic is worth bringing up. Itanium was the ill fated 64 bit Microsoft/Intel/HP joint project that went down like the Titanic owing to multicore multiprocessors from both Intel and AMD and back room...
- Tags: Utility computing, Storage management, Processors, small business, Intel Itanium, virtualization, 64-bit, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-25
- Microsoft delays Office 2007 again
- Microsoft delays Office 2007 againBetter delayed than shipping before its ready.Just my opinion...A very wise decisionHaving used the Office beta since Alpha code, this is a good decision. Typically, a Beta 2 release has far fewer performance issues than this beta. Taking the time to really investigate and...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007
- Discussion threads 2006-06-29
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