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Display Artifacts and Image Quality This is Part III of a four-part series that compares and analyzes the relative strengths and weaknesses among CRT, LCD, plasma, and DLP display technologies. In Part I we covered primary specs like black-level, color temperature, peak brightness, dynamic range, and display contrast for each display technology. In Part II […]

This is Part II of a four-part article series by DisplayMate author Dr. Raymond Soneira. The series explores the four most popular display technologies, describing an in-depth comparison between CRT, LCD, plasma and DLP display technologies and analyzing the relative strengths and weaknesses of each. DisplayMate has worked closely with ExtremeTech, PC Magazine and many […]

While Microsoft continues to emphasize that it is not extending its basic support for NT Server 4.0 beyond December 31, it is continuing to give users who’ve held off from upgrading slight reprieves. The latest, announced Friday, is one additional year of custom, paid support for NT 4.0 Server. The new deadline for the end […]

IBM and 15 of its partners have formed Power.org, a consortium dedicated to promoting the POWER microprocessor architecture, the companies said Wednesday. The companies intend to work on two areas: developing bus technology, as well as other initiatives for the high-volume server sector. IBM’s POWER architecture is featured in is servers; derivatives of the technology […]

This is the first in a four-part series by DisplayMate author Dr. Raymond Soneira, exploring the four primary display technologies. This first installment analyzes and compares black-level, color temperature, peak brightness, dynamic range, and display contrast for each technology. DisplayMate has worked closely with ExtremeTech, PC Magazine and many other Ziff-Davis publications for over ten […]

While 2007 is still a long way off, Microsoft is making headway (at least on slide decks) with Longhorn Server, according to the Redmond software maker’s partners. Before the Windows Server team can dedicate itself exclusively to Longhorn Server, it needs to roll out several other new releases, including Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; […]

Microsoft Corp.’s Linux point man is at it again. This week, Martin Taylor, Microsoft’s general manager for platform strategy, isn’t touting any new Microsoft-funded studies aimed to demonstrate that Microsoft’s total-cost-of-ownership numbers beat those of its Linux competitors. Instead, he is targeting one of the newer and increasingly powerful Linux players, Novell, by crusading to […]

Microsoft made a minority investment Monday in Unix/Linux management vendor Vintela. Neither Microsoft nor Lindon, Utah-based Vintela would comment on the size of the investment. But sources said the amount was less than $10 million. Vintela has acted as a key participant in Microsoft’s Unix/Linux interoperability strategy. Nonetheless, Vintela is an unlikely Microsoft partner. Vintela […]

Hewlett-Packard has announced the next iteration in its Compaq X gaming PC line, which uses the new 3.8-GHz Pentium 4 570. The launch of Intel’s new chip was expected, the last entrant in Intel’s single-core processor line. Analysts called the chip “a glimmer” of what the original Prescott could have been. Intel’s new chip costs […]

Microsoft Corp. still has yet to release a wide-scale beta of its next Windows Server release, code-named R2. But according to sources, the product is well on its way to being finalized, with packaging, licensing and support details already hammered out. Microsoft officials said last month that R2 will ship in the latter half of […]

When asked whether Microsoft will release an updated version of its IE (Internet Explorer) browser before Longhorn ships in 2006, Microsoft’s pat answer is that it has no current plans to do so. IE is part of Windows, and that’s that, according to the Microsoft party line. But if you ask a slightly different question–whether […]

Microsoft Corp. is set to launch on Nov. 8 its small-business solutions strategy, one element of which will be a new version of Microsoft Office designed expressly for the small-business manager or owner. The new Office release is expected to include new payroll functionality, an updated version of Microsoft’s business-contact-manager technology and new Web services, […]