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- Vaporware
- Software that is not yet in production, but the announced delivery date has long since passed. At times, software vendors are criticized for intentionally producing vaporware in order to...
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- Apple Tablet - Unofficial, unannounced ... but still delayed
- You guys have been asking...You guys have been asking for a Mac tablet for years already, while we have been able to get tablet PCs for many years now, in many different form factors and from many different vendors.Yet when you close your world off by relying solely on Apple,...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Is this Barnes & Noble's secret e-book reader?
- The other big question:How big? If it's paperback size, as most of the ones now out are, then it's too small to do serious readers (science, business reports, financial tables, CAD/CAM drawings, etc.) any good. Way too much scrolling around.Not ANOTHER DEVICE?!?!? ARGGGGGG!!!This is getting stupid.Why so serious?Are you...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- Will it actually be Microsoft that brings e-books to Ed Tech?
- And it would just kill you knowing that Microsoft is bringing all these technologies to education. You would no longer have your need for Google, and that would be absolutely devastating to you.RE: Will it actually be Microsoft that brings e-books to Ed Tech?So micrsoft's going to go into the...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- SOA and the power of low expectations
- SOA and the power of low expectationsThere's only one reason...SOA is having such a bad rap - it's bad. If it were good stuff, it would be an easy sell. Things that work sell easy. If it were good for business, business would adopt it. No one so far...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- More vaporware from OLPC - Here comes XO 2.0
- More vaporware from OLPC - Here comes XO 2.0Possibly the deal isbeing made with Fisher-Price for manufacture and distribution. It certainly looks cheap and cheesy from the picture, with a color scheme reminding me of angry fruit salad.delusions of grandeurThe more I see and hear out of Negroponte's operation the...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-20
- Will Microsoft pit 'Milan' multi-touch against Apple's iPhone?
- Will Microsoft pit 'Milan' multi-touch against Apple's iPhone?M$ realeases more vaporwareGate$ needs his 2 minutes of fame to tell us about new M$ vaporware.Nothing more, just strugulling to stay relevant!The usual MOWe have it too!!! Let's state our vision of the future after someone else states theirs or has actually...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-29
- Beyond AMD's Barcelona hype - the fine print
- Beyond AMD's Barcelona hype - the fine printapples to applesGeorge,As I'm sure you know, the metric used in IT is performance/watt. So if you really want to compare ...Barcelona TDP 95WX355 (Clovertown 2.66 GHz) TDP 120WX5365 (Clovertown 3.0 GHz) TDP 150W?So as you also probably know (if you don't...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-25
- Apple turning to FUD?
- Apple turning to FUD?... and a FUD for every season[i]FUD worked when the market was not moving at the pace it does today.[/i]FUD and vaporware worked well then, but they work even better now.The rapid pace of current development at least in some quarters means that instead of holding off...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-10
- Microsoft licenses new way to make friends
- Microsoft licenses new way to make friendsGood one ZDNetFormer MS employee paid to use MS R&D tech in new start-up. Great article ZDNet and the third in a series.Let's see what others are covering, hmm maybe this one is newsworthy:"Blog Post: Google received 47-49% of the search market in March,...
- Discussion threads 2006-04-25
- Intel strikes back with next-generation chips
- Intel strikes back with next-generation chipsThe Empire strikes back !AMD brought 64bits in 2003, a big bust after all the 'gotta have 64bits' hype. What AMD needs to do now is turn up the hype around Hyptertransport and Integrated Mem controller. It seems this will not be enough to...
- Discussion threads 2006-02-17
- Microsoft's top 10 hurdles for 2006
- Microsoft's top 10 hurdles for 2006really>>They failed everywhere, and are going down quickly.Then how come their profit increased and they had an increase in server sales and announced today that they would increase their dividendNow let's talk about Novell Suse and SGI, where are they going?>>By the time they'll release...
- Discussion threads 2005-12-15
- Longhorn Server on tap
- Longhorn Server on tapfrom the mouth of redmond:'"Fresh eyes on code are one of the best ways to do security reviews," he said.'-wait... isn't that one of the principles of open source? to get more fresh eyes on the source for a more secure/stable code? nah.. that will...
- Discussion threads 2003-10-28
- Longhorn: Hurry up and wait
- Longhorn: Hurry up and waitwhere's the news?um... was there anything in this that hasn't really been mentioned recently on zdnet?No news hereJust more obligatory daily M$ praise to keep the advertising dollars coming in.All in all, quite boring verbiage for more vaporware.THIS IS PERFECT TIMING!Now all the lemmings will never...
- Discussion threads 2003-10-28
- Microsoft steers developers to Longhorn
- Microsoft steers developers to LonghornDevelopers, Developers, DevelopersI got four words for ya:ILOVETHISCOMPANYYaaaaahin other words:"These developers are on the bleeding edge"in other words: m$ blood thirsty for more"Security concerns continue to hound the software giant. Last week, the company said that anxiety over vulnerabilities in its software contributed to a larger-than-expected...
- Discussion threads 2003-10-27
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- Will Microsoft's Silverlight dampen the appeal of Google's Chrome OS?
- MS is the past Google is the future so NopeGoogle is the old MS, MS is the old IBM. PC_DOS never made it, MS_DOS did. The driving factor was openness and innovation.Today and in the near future, Google has bothToday MS sees profit only and based on thatdrives...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Google makes Chrome OS open source today
- I like itThe ChromeOS demo looked pretty cool!I'm almost 100% webapp-based already, so I could see myself using a simple, fast & no maintenance OS like that the majority of the time.I like it too, but, for me, I need to compile and run programs locally. I would imagine that...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Chrome OS: Some Early Preview Videos
- google should move away from linuxI suppose they could easily take away all those messes of the current os by doing that. Haha! Crummy-um "Chromium OS and Open Source" video-- the guy is calling it Crummy-um! Sounds about right.RE: Chrome OS: Some Early Preview VideosAnd ZDNet falls hook, line,...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Live from Googleplex: Chrome OS details revealed
- Ubuntu 9.10 has more immediate potentialMight I suggest trying Ubuntu 9.10? A phenominal OS with much more to offer then even Windows 7.Open source, free and ready to try today...http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1122http://www.tuxradar.com/content/vista-windows-7-ubuntu-904-and-910-boot-speed-comparisonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYgWE6Svpaghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16-nad9N3pgNot that I have readI'd stick with 904immediate potential to sink in obscurityGoogle was Linux's last fleeting chance to turn...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Google Chrome OS announcement
- Just as I thought"All data on Chrome OS is in the cloud""All data stored in the cloud in Google Docs":(YeahThat unfortunately is a deal breaker for me.I'll be sticking to my dual boot Windows 7/Fedora Core setup on my netbook.bad and bad no chrome os for me ......RE: Google Chrome...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Microsoft to show off new visualization language at PDC
- M$ vaporwareit is so fuzzy that you are better of with classic tools.Parent post is a troll. Please ignore it. nt The only 'vaporware' in evidence, LG...... is in the space between your ears...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
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