Recent Articles
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Hybrid Hype Running into a Hard(ware) Reality?
Last summer, industry and customer conferences were abuzz with presentations about new flash memory caching technologies that would improve the user experience of Windows Vista, especially for mobile desktops. And storage vendors climbed on board with preannouncements of “hybrid” flash-enabled drives to support the plan. However, with Vista now in general release, the timing for…
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Microsoft Offers Indirect Partners an Incentive to Preinstall Office
Microsoft is trying to incentivize its largest indirect hardware partners and system builders to preinstall Office 2007 on their systems, before these are sold to resellers, by offering them a referral payment when end users activate the license on those machines. Qualified Microsoft partners were invited to participate in the Referral Payment Pilot Program for…
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Demo Products Aim to Empower Individuals
PALM DESERT, Calif.—The Demo conference kicked off today with products ranging from inkless printing technology to a thin-client computing solution that delivers a rich desktop experience. The theme: the empowered individual. “The theme of empowerment is about the power of individuals to select and use products, the power to move markets, the power of new…
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Linux Hackers Offer to Create Device Drivers for Free
Ask Linux users what they find most annoying about Linux, and many will complain about device drivers. While the vast majority of PC components and peripherals work with Linux, some don’t work at all, and others are marginal. A leading Linux kernel developer has come up with a solution. In a recent blog and e-mail…
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Microsoft Tries to Explain Away Outlook 2007 Controversy
Microsoft is trying to dampen criticism by explaining its controversial decision to unify the rendering and editing engines in Outlook 2007 and use only the Word 2007 engine, even though there are some HTML and Cascading Style Sheet attributes that the engine does not currently support. The move is a significant change from previous versions…
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Dual-Booting Vista and Linux
Editor’s Note: If you missed Part One of the series, you can read it here. Last time around, I described the HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7360n that I’m using for my Vista vs. Linux shootout. Getting the PC was the easy part. Getting Linux and Vista to live together on the same machine turned…
