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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 [...]
Microsoft said on Wednesday that it is notifying approximately 800 workers that their jobs are being eliminated as the software giant completes the layoffs it announced earlier this year. In January, Microsoft said it would cut approximately 5,000 positions before the end of the next fiscal year, which ends in June. With the latest cuts, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
IBM and Canonical, the commercial entity behind Ubuntu Linux, on Tuesday are launching a combined cloud and Linux desktop package designed for Netbooks and low-end PCs. For those of us still waiting for Linux to hit the desktop, this type of packaging may be exactly how the move from Windows starts to pick up steam. [...]
Firefox users on Windows may see the nearby window pop up on Firefox soon. Mozilla has begun to use its blocklisting mechanism to block these add-ons. Among the vulnerabilities disclosed by Microsoft last Tuesday was MS09-054, a Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer. As Microsoft explains in an entry on their Security Research & Defense [...]
