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Businesses planning a move to Windows 7 need a more rigorous planning and assessment tool than the consumer-grade Upgrade Advisor. Businesses planning a move to Windows 7 need a more rigorous planning and assessment tool than the consumer-grade Upgrade Advisor. The early success of the operating system notwithstanding, you need to do some due diligence [...]
It wasn’t a high bar, but Windows 7 cleared it. Consumer retail sales of Microsoft Corp.’s newest computer operating system topped those of Vista by 234% on a unit basis within the first few days of its Oct. 22 launch, according to a report released Friday by the market research company NPD Group. The report [...]
A Microsoft executive whose pointed comments on Windows 7 upgrades have irked Microsoft bloggers has apologized. Well, in a roundabout sort of way, that is. In a Monday blog post, Eric Ligman, global partner experience lead in Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Group, said his now-infamous blog post titled “Regardless of what any hack says, a Windows [...]
On this day 40 years ago (wegathernews.com), the very first e-mail message (long before they called it e-mail, of course) was sent by UCLA’s Leonard Kleinrock over the ARPANET system from Los Angeles to the Stanford Research Institute, more than 400 miles away. Kleinrock, while still a student at MIT, developed the principles of “packet [...]
Finally, the World Wide Web will live up to its name. The decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers that Web sites written in Russian, Chinese, Arabic, and other non-ASCII character sets will be able to have their Internet domain names displayed in their own languages truly makes the Web a global [...]
It is 40 years to the week since the first data packets were sent over the Arpanet. That was the research network commissioned by the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Arpa) to see whether computer-to-computer communications could be made faster, more reliable and more robust by using the novel technique of packet [...]
The computers at Microsoft Stores don’t have the crapware that Windows PCs typically come with, but they still have an assortment of Microsoft and Adobe software. Most controversially, they include Windows Live Essentials and Microsoft Security Essentials. By Emil Protalinski | Last updated October 28, 2009 8:15 AM CT
Shane O’Neill , CIO.com For all the stories about enterprises holding off on Windows 7 deployments, Windows XP’s dominance in the enterprise is at the beginning of the end, says one industry analyst. This will not happen overnight, writes Forrester analyst Benjamin Gray in a new research report, but there are enough reasons for IT [...]
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer officially unveiled the company’s new Windows 7 operating system at a Thursday launch event in Manhattan. “I’m Steve Ballmer and I’m a Windows 7 PC,” he announced. The idea behind the new OS is to make computing “simpler, faster, more responsive,” he said. That was possible thanks to an “intense [...]
I’m all for technology advancements–a new OS, a slicker smartphone, Tang, whatever. Now Acer’s making an odd-but-interesting bet with its new Aspire 5738DG laptop: a 3D display. Yep, the future is now–watch out for flying DeLoreans! Before I crack any more jokes, let me explain what goes into Acer’s 3D technology. Ray Sawall, senior manager [...]
