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- Windows is a glacier and glaciers don't melt overnight
- Windows is a glacier and glaciers don't melt overnightMessage has been deleted.Little more than wishful thinking from the competition.Look, can Windows stand improvment and to be slimmed down? Of course it can. Does that in anyway mean people are chucking it in favor of something else? Not...
- Tags: Operating systems, No_axe, glacier, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., Windows IS, Microsoft Windows NT
- Discussion threads 2008-04-11
- Linux powers unusual multicore machine
- Linux powers unusual multicore machinesounds goodanother opening in the market for linux which MS will completely bypass.Waste of time...People should be focusing on Longhorn Server Beta 2 for pure massive scalable computing. We have thousands and thousands of servers here all running Windows server products and productivity is sky high....
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, multi-core, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Windows IS
- Discussion threads 2006-08-11
- Microsoft looks beyond Windows at hardware confab
- Microsoft looks beyond Windows at hardware confabMessage has been deleted.Rename AppropriateWinHELL would more accurately reflect most customer experiences.Microsoft looks beyond Windows at hardware confabThere sure is a lot coming out of Microsoft. No other software company could pull off such a tremendous amount of functionality. Vista, Office, Longhorn...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Windows IS, Microsoft Corp., MICROSOFT LOOKS, intelligent people, Microsoft Windows Vista, hardware, operating system
- Discussion threads 2006-05-22
- Why Windows is less secure than Linux
- Why Windows is less secure than LinuxModular Design is GoodDon't shoot the messenger folks!WRONG WRONG WRONGMr. Stiennon has made some crucial mistakes in his "analysis". Let's see if ZDNet's lame comments system will let me post a link to the blog I wrote in response to this article:LinkOr...http://techrepublic.com.com/5254-6257-0.html?forumID=99&threadID=184332&messageID=1995023&id=2926438Or...http://techrepublic.com.com/5254-6257-0.html?forumID=99&threadID=184332&messageID=1995023&id=2926438J.JaBrokenAn unexpected failure...
- Tags: Operating systems, Web servers, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Blogging, Modular Design, Now-What, Microsoft Windows, Windows IS, Linux, Apache Software Foundation, distributed denial of service
- Discussion threads 2006-04-14
- New Netsky worm linked to South Korea
- New Netsky worm linked to South KoreaWhats the death toll of this Cyberterrorism?How many cyber people have to lose their cyber lives before this government takes these cyber-terrorist attacks seriously?!Didn't they learn anything from 9/11!Why -o- why don't they throw gob loads of money at us security software makers to...
- Tags: Viruses and worms, Cyberthreats, Operating systems, security, Netsky virus, Windows IS, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2004-10-22
- Linux spreads fast in Asia
- Linux spreads fast in AsiaMicrosoft DominantQuote: On desktops, Windows is even more dominant, with 90 percent of computers running it. This overwhelming control of the desktop won't be easily lost to Linux, said Chew of IDC.This is highly debateble, as things stand right now.With China's government pushing OS, East...
- Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, desktop, Linux, Windows IS
- Discussion threads 2003-11-14
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- Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux
- Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...
- Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- MobileTechRoundup show #141, jkOnTheRun is aquired, Sony Reader, battery life, and more
- I had a good time recording MobileTechRoundup show #141 with the two newest members of the Giga Om Media group, James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel. Don't worry listeners and readers, you will still get the same content from those two and from me here on the podcast for the foreseeable...
- Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Sony Corp., Battery, Sony Reader, Kevin, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XP
- Last October, roughly one year after the release to manufacturing of Windows Vista, I did a comparison of how well Windows Vista was living up to its promise of being more secure than its predecessor, Windows XP. My data source was the Microsoft Security Bulletin Search page, where I tallied...
- Tags: Security, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched
- Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)
- Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- iPhone 2.0 jailbreaker for iPhone 2g/3g is available
- The iPhone DevTeam blog has released the development sources for their tool xpwn version 0.3. This tool is the firmware 2.0 version of the team's "cross-platform jailbreaking library/command-line utility". The team claims it has been tested on Linux, Windows XP, and Windows Vista for both the iPhone 2g and the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Productivity, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- A Friday Active Directory puzzler
- We just purchased a new server for our district's central office. Nothing super-special, just a Windows Server 2003 for compatibility with a payroll and HRM application install with lots of storage and a moderately speedy quad-core Xeon. The existing server is out of space, out of resources, recently...
- Tags: Domain, User Profile, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops
- Microsoft has internally released to manufacturing the version of Windows XP that it has tweaked to run on the One Laptop Per Child XO computer. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop
- Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Users gravitating to lower-priced Office SKUs
- While more and more users are choosing "premium" versions of Windows, the opposite is happening with Office, Microsoft's other cash cow. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?Microsoft Search sucks.Now they are hijacking your PC to gain search share. Vista, XP, and anything else Microsoft is leaving this organization at every chance.RE: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?This studies almost alway fail to note that XP's business penetration was no better after...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrest
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!
- We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!Linux has no marketing.Market share is directly related to marketing. When is the last time anyone saw a Linux commercial?Isn't that the point?You say that Canonical needs to listen more to the "customers" but...
- Tags: Copiers, Operating systems, Desktops, Notebooks, Market-Share, Apple Inc., Ubuntu, wanna-be, Microsoft Corp., photocopier, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Microsoft buys DATAllegro
- Microsoft on Thursday said that it will acquire DATAllegro, which makes data warehouse appliances. The purchase is expected to "extend the capabilities of Microsoft's mission critical platform," according to a statement. DATAllegro will ride shotgun with other software to manage data and give the software giant one...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Server, Microsoft Corp., DATAllegro, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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