Vista SP1: The Promised Performance Gains are Real.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 285 days ago (http://blogs.zdnet.com)
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reports on preliminary tests of Vista SP1 performance over Vista RTM and finds that thus far there are real, measurable improvements. read more »
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Juniper Networks COO Stephen Elop to Succeed Jeff Raikes in Microsoft Business Division.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 315 days ago (http://blogs.zdnet.com)
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Stephen Elop, currently COO for Juniper Networks will be moving into the Microsoft Business Division as one of Microsoft's three corporate presidents. Jeff Raikes, currently in charge of MBD will be read more »
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Jungle Disk 1.46 ReleasedOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 379 days ago (http://blog.jungledisk.com)
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Jungle Disk has released version 1.46 of their popular backup product. Jungle Disk allows one to use a simple GUI front-end to connect to Amazon's S3 storage. The new version includes file versionin read more »
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Microsoft Begins Releasing More OOXML Translators.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 352 days ago (http://blogs.zdnet.com)
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Mary Jo Foley reports on continued developments with the Microsoft sponsored effort to create OOXML translators - including those that support conversion to the ODF and (Chinese) UOF formats. read more »
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Why Microsoft Must Control One Laptop Per ChildOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 315 days ago (http://technocrat.net)
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Bruce Perens, a well-known open source advocate, writes about Microsoft's increasing interest and involvement in the OLPC and why Microsoft will eventually ensure that almost all OLPC's are running read more »
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Microsoft Memo indicates tight integration for Windows 7 and Windows Live.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 302 days ago (http://blogs.zdnet.com)
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Mary Jo Foley reports on a recently leaked memo that seems to indicate tight integration in the upcoming releases of Windows 7 and the web-based Windows Live. read more »
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Autonomy shares drop despite solid resultsOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 210 days ago (http://go.theregister.com)
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Autonomy saw its shares drop more than ten per cent on results for the first quarter, showing good revenue growth but slightly weaker than expected profits.%u2026 read more »
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Home Office defends 'dangerously misleading' Phorm thumbs-upOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 210 days ago (http://go.theregister.com)
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The Home Office today defended advice it gave BT and Phorm that their "Webwise" agreement to track millions of broadband subscribers will probably be legal if consent is obtain read more »
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