Was Windows 7 worth saving XP for?
More than 210,000 Windows users petitioned Microsoft to save Windows XP. Has a worthwhile successor finally arrived?
Hot Rod Netbook Sports Dual CPUs
Leave it to that computer innovation center Columbia (the country, not the university) to come up with a way to turbo charge the lowly netbook into near-laptop performance. Haleron in Columbia spent six months engineering a netbook with two Intel Atom processors to rev up the performance. The lower netbook pricing enables income-limited South Americans to use a netbook in place of a more expensive laptop for general computer needs.
Five Reasons Windows XP Has About a Year to Live
Windows XP, still strong after eight years, may die sooner than you think in the enterprise, Forrester says. From support concerns to deployment flexibility, here are some factors speeding XP's demise.
Back Up and Restore Across Windows Versions
Alvin Hurd asked if he can restore a Vista backup in XP. I answer both his question and the reverse one: Can one restore an XP backup in Vista?
Microsoft battles class-action over WGA antipiracy technology
Microsoft is slamming a lawsuit that claims it misled millions of Windows XP users about that company's anti-piracy software, calling the lawsuit "fictional," "demonstrably false" and from an "alternate universe."
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Microsoft locking out unauthorized Xbox 360 storage devices
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The Decline and Fall of the Idealistic Spark
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Thirty years of spreadsheets
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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