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Vista Takes Windows to New Heights
Finally, Vista is here. Was it worth the wait? Well, it all depends on how you look at it. eWEEK Labs has been testing Microsoft Windows Vista builds for more than three years, and our evaluation of the final code shows that the new operating system is a significant improvement over its predecessor, Windows XP—chiefly…
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Black Friday Turns Servers Dark at Wal-Mart, Macy’s
Two key e-commerce leaders—Wal-Mart and Macy’s—found themselves shut out of the online portion of the holiday sales rush for much of Friday, as their sites slowed to a crawl starting at about 4 a.m. EST. This was especially troubling as it happened on the so-called Black Friday, where major retailers hope to see their financial…
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Server Market Grows in Q3
Separate reports from research firms IDC and Gartner point to a more robust market for servers in the third quarter of 2006. This renewed corporate interest in servers reflects the growing popularity of blades and demand for high-end hardware, according to the reports. Overall, server revenue climbed 9.1 percent from a year ago and reached…
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Be Thankful: You Can Be Safe
Just a few years ago Windows users, even responsible Windows users, had good reason to be fearful of the attack that would slip past their defenses or their notice. Things have changed. Nobody should ever be complacent, but a responsible user can be confident that defensive software and good habits will protect them. More interestingly,…
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Desktops That Can Be Seen and Not Heard
When it comes to getting work done, some people just can’t concentrate. Perhaps you’re one of them, reading this roundup as yet another diversion from duty. But maybe you’re not the one with the problem. Maybe you’re just distracted by your obnoxiously loud desktop computer. Many of today’s top components rely on noisy internal fans…
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Mendocino Introduces ‘Virtual Views’ of Production Data
Mendocino Software on Nov. 21 introduced InfiniView, a new software product that enables customers to create and use one or more data images—or “virtual views”—of current production data for a number of concurrently running functions. Those uses may include rapid application recovery, testing, development, data analytics, reporting, data staging or any off-host processing tasks where…
