Jun 27
Bill Veghte, Microsoft Vice-president, quoted the launch date of Windows 7 by saying:
You have told us you want a more regular, predictable Windows release schedule.
Our plan is to deliver Windows 7 approximately three years after the January 2007 general availability launch date of Windows Vista.
You’ve also let us know you don’t want to face the kinds of incompatibility challenges with the next version of Windows you might have experienced early with Windows Vista.
Our goal is to ensure that the migration process from Windows Vista to Windows 7 is straightforward.
The more Microsoft announces the release of Windows 7, the more users would wait for it instead of upgrading to Windows Vista.
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Jun 27
Do you want to use the same picture for all Vista users? The following are the steps to do it:
1. In the run command type gpedit.msc
2. Click Computer Configuration, then Administrative Templates, followed by Control Panel, and finally User Accounts (Image above)
3. Right-click on Apply the default user logon picture to all users
4. Click on Properties
5. Click the “Enabled” button (See image below)
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Jun 27
The depth of Microsoft loathing among our clan is perhaps only second to our penguin loving. This loathing makes sense, given that Linux and open-source people are so fiercely merit driven, and great products have failed to end Microsoft’s hegemony. But times they are a changin’, for a post-Gates, post-Microsoft age has already begun.
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Jun 27
PC World - Microsoft, usually a source of software patch updates and claims about Vista adoption rates, produced a bit of sentimental…
Jun 27
Google Tech Talks brings us this presentation describing the rate of development for the Linux kernel, and how the development model is set up to handle such a large and diverse developer population and huge rate of change.
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Jun 27
Does a system with dual Quad Core processors, 128GB of RAM,
and a Tera-Byte RAID array seem pretty tame to you?
Does writing a program with a dozen threads seem about
as complex as an abacus to you?
Does a database with a million records seem like something
you’d put on a USB memory stick?
Do you know who John Backus was?
Are you cleared for ridiculous by the US Government?
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Jun 27
If you don’t get the title,
you’re probably too young to get the rest of this.
If you don’t know who John Backus was
or what his contribution to computer science was
then you’re also, probably, too young.
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Jun 27
Wintel no more.
The term “Wintel” was coined earlier when Microsoft and Intel was inseparable from each other. Intel and Microsoft has been tight for so many years helping each other out with every release of their product. Intel has installed and implemented every generation of Microsoft’s Windows while Microsoft has promoted Intel at every chance they get.
That relationships seems to end as Intel snubbed the biggest Windows launch ever by skipping the adoption and probably waiting for Windows 7 instead.
Even when Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, is frequently meeting Intel CEO, Paul Otellini, it has not compelled the hardware giant to implement Windows Vista to its 80,000 employees.
It was reported that Intel made a comprehensive report of cost benefit analysis on migrating to Windows Vista and found out it brought little uptake to their present Windows XP installation. New York times has reported on this but the person who revealed about the comprehensive report remained anonymous as it could bring damage to their relationship with Microsoft.
The biggest problem with Vista is their hardware requirements and putting in an additional 200 to 300 USD on their hardware requirements multiplied by say Intel’s 80,000 employees would cost them 16 to 24 million dollars on hardware alone.
Nonetheless, Intel has profited billions of dollars on sales from their Microsoft installed computers and spending a few tens of a millions looks very small in preserving their “Wintel” relationship with the software giant.
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Jun 27
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Open Profiler helps IT teams assess data to identify potential problems before beginning projects such as data integration or application development.
