Tag: design

  • Microsoft Goes After Adobe

    Microsoft Goes After Adobe

    Darryl K. Taft

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    Formerly noncommittal Microsoft has come out swinging in relation to Adobe Systems with a video that compares Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 to Adobe’s Dreamweaver 8. However, it’s something of an apples-to-pears or an oranges-to-lemons comparison, in that Visual Studio is an all-purpose integrated development environment and Dreamweaver, although it has IDE capabilities, is primarily known… Read more

  • Cadence CTO Calls for Power Savings in Chip Design

    Cadence CTO Calls for Power Savings in Chip Design

    Daniel Drew Turner

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    SAN JOSE, Calif.—Asserting that power consumption consideration is “not a first-class citizen” in the current state of microprocessor design, Ted Vucurevich, chief technology officer of Cadence Design Systems, said the industry needs a common power format to help optimize power versus performance in future designs. He made his remarks at the Microprocessor Forum here, which… Read more

  • Tech Testers Get a New Windows Vista Build

    Tech Testers Get a New Windows Vista Build

    Channel Insider Staff

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    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… Read more

  • The Greening of the Data Center

    The Greening of the Data Center

    Kevin Fogarty

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    Data center managers are on the hot seat lately. They not only have to cram in more servers per square inch than they ever wanted or thought they’d need, they also have to figure out how to do it without sending the electricity bill through the roof. And they’re not entirely sure how to do… Read more

  • Microsoft Wants Vista PCs to Pop

    Microsoft Wants Vista PCs to Pop

    John G. Spooner

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    Microsoft wants PC buyers to recognize a machine running its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system from afar. The software giant has already set out the minimum hardware requirements for a PC to run the operating system. Now it’s begun sharing ideas on how to design a Vista PC as part of what it calls the… Read more

  • Microsoft’s Ballmer Touts Dynamics AX Upgrade

    Microsoft’s Ballmer Touts Dynamics AX Upgrade

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    Boston—Microsoft is, without actually saying it, positioning its Dynamics AX 4.0 release for the enterprise to compete with products from the likes of SAP and Oracle. And it’s working hard to convince partners that moving forward with the Dynamics brand is the winning approach to take. At its Worldwide Partner Conference here July 11 through… Read more