Intel Nehalem architecture based Intel Core i7 940 processor will be phased out later this year.
Intel Nehalem architecture based Intel Core i7 940 processor will be phased out later this year. Ironically, Intel Core i7 940 was one of the first processors based on Nehalem architecture launched in November 2008. Consumers [...]
Microsoft is trying to make it easier to sway users of Windows XP onto the latest version of its operating system.
For some time now, the company has been quietly building a “Windows XP mode” that uses virtualization to allow Windows 7 to easily run applications designed for Windows XP. According to sources familiar with the [...]
Facebook plans to announce at a developer event Monday that it will open up user-contributed information to third-party developers, according to a report Sunday in The Wall Street Journal.
The move would allow developers to build applications and services that–with users’ permission–access user videos, photos, notes, and comments. The move would be a significant change for the social-networking [...]
ahoo is closing its GeoCities personal home page service, and with it will go an era of self-expression on the Web that’s largely been replaced by social networks and blogs.
GeoCities rose to power during an era when publishing on the Internet meant setting up your own Web site. GeoCities simplified the process by helping people [...]
“The lack of a predictable schedule combined with the churn of features late in the the process made it hard for partners to know is this the real Windows Vista,” Nash said. “The result of our lack of predictability was everybody (saying) ‘Let’s wait for this thing to stop spinning
Microsoft Corp. today released the fifth volume of its Microsoft Security Intelligence Report at Tech•Ed EMEA IT Professionals 2008, providing an in-depth and unique view of the threat landscape based on data derived from hundreds of millions of computers worldwide. Designed to help enable better protection from cybercriminals, the research from the first half of [...]
As a Mac user, I like the Dock, enjoy Mac OS X’s user interface, and typically appreciate its design. After using Windows 7, I have the same feeling. Windows 7 is easily the most attractive OS Microsoft has ever released and its revamped Taskbar is a treat to use, thanks to snazzy thumbnail features that actually put Apple’s Dock to shame.
President Barack Obama is a smart guy. Where others zig, he zags. It’s perhaps not surprising, then, that he’s been asking around about the benefits of open source, according to Sun Chairman Scott McNealy, who has been asked by President Obama to author a white paper on the benefits the U.S. government can derive from open source.
Back in 2002, as Roy Schestowitz calls out, Microsoft was desperately trying to figure out a response to Linux. The problem wasn’t Linux as a product-level competitor. The problem, as its Windows chief, Jim Allchin, told a small gathering of Microsoft partners (PDF), is that Linux changes the nature of software competition with odd things like “community” and “GPL licensing,” the latter of which Microsoft didn’t like one bit :
Google users now have more control over their search experience, thanks to our newest addition to Google Web Search: SearchWiki. With this new set of features, users can add, delete, re-sort or comment on search results for any query, to create a set of search results that’s customized just for them.
Just do a web search [...]
