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Microsoft Research Builds ‘BrowserShield’
Microsoft researchers are experimenting with an automatic code zapper for the company’s Internet Explorer Web browser. Researchers at the Redmond, Wash., company have completed work on a prototype framework called BrowserShield that promises to allow IE to intercept and remove, on the fly, malicious code hidden on Web pages, instead showing users safe equivalents of…
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Vista RC1 Tests Show That the Migration Path May Be Rocky
We’ve seen a bevy of Vista builds lately, and each has made some improvement over the other. But, now that the day of reckoning for Vista is drawing near, eWEEK Labs wanted to put the operating system to a real-world test—that is, what will it be like to upgrade a Windows XP machine to Vista?…
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What Is the Business Case for Upgrading to Vista?
With Windows Vista, Microsoft needs to please at least two constituencies with very different sets of requirements. The Redmondians need to pack the next version of Windows with lots of bells and whistles that will appeal to consumers whom it is hoping to convince to upgrade. And it must do the same for business customers.…
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A New Breed of Laptops: The Intel Core 2 Duos
If you’re a student planning to take a new laptop back to school with you this fall, you’ve probably bought it already. But for those of you who’ve held out until now, a whole new breed of laptops is starting to ship. This year, there’s a new kid in town—and by new kid, I mean…
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Linksys Forges Ahead with 802.11n Wares for the SMB
Linksys is forging ahead with its 802.11n initiative now, taking aim at small businesses. However, eWEEK Labs’ tests show that Linksys’ new products do little to resolve the obvious problems with current draft 11n implementations, while adding a host of underwhelming new features and spotty support for newer laptop computers. Click here to read the…
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‘Woodcrest’ Shows Its Stuff
Armed with Intel’s latest dual-core Xeon processors, IBM’s x3500 server offers organizations speedy performance and flexible internal storage and memory configuration for their mission-critical applications—all with a compact footprint. Released in July with the new Xeon 5100 series processors (formerly code-named Woodcrest), the 5U (8.75-inch) x3500 tower server is a solid choice for remote branch…
