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Fourth Dell Executive Joins Lenovo
Lenovo Group has poached its fourth Dell executive and will tap him to lead a new business unit that will address customer service. Christopher J. Askew, 44, was appointed senior vice president of the new Lenovo Services unit on Aug. 24, the company said in a statement. He will be based in Singapore and report…
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How S-L-O-W Will Vista Go?
The complaints about sluggish performance in Windows Vista keep growing. While it’s unfair to point to beta software apps—or whatever Microsoft wants to call them—the warning flags are already evident. A batch of complaints reached my inbox following my recent column looking at Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard and Vista. One message, from reader Randall…
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Tech Testers Get a New Windows Vista Build
After weeks of waiting for a new, official Windows Vista test build, testers got their fix on Aug. 25, when Microsoft posted release number 5536 for download. The new build is available to a preselected set of technical beta testers only. The new release is designated as a “pre-RC1,” or pre-Release Candidate 1, build. The…
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Microsoft Preps Answer to Google Pack
Microsoft’s latest Windows Live offering is for the most part not a new service at all, but rather a one-time download that includes a subset of the available Live applications, much like the Google Pack. Called Windows Live Essentials, the program also features a new application called Windows Live Dashboard. The Dashboard would show the…
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Software Product Lines Automate Development
BALTIMORE—With reuse of software assets as its foundation, the software product line theory will help foster mass production and customization of software to power the next generation of systems, SPL experts said at a conference here. At the Software Product Line Conference, vendors, researchers and practitioners shed light on the status of software product lines,…
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Generation Y for Dummies
Remember that time you were talking to the Generation X-aged employee in your department and referred to punch cards and he or she responded with a blank stare? “We recorded digital information on them through punch-outs,” you explained to the clueless face before you, “and then developed programs to read the data and … Oh,…
