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 [...]
“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 :
