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Do Microsoft’s Vista Hardware Guidelines Meet the Mark?
While the final hardware requirements for Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system won’t be made public until next summer, testers say the first beta release of the operating system is performing moderately well on existing PC hardware. Microsoft released to testers the first beta of Vista one week ago. As it has been doing for the…
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Apple Will Target Tiger’s Networking Glitches
Although two updates to Apple Computer Inc.’s Mac OS X Tiger have fixed many compatibility problems, enterprise networking problems persist. A new update, version 10.4.3, is expected this summer, and will address some of the remaining problems, according to sources. Sources say that the update will fix continuing problems with integration with Microsoft Corp. Activity…
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Will Your Clients’ PCs Run Windows Vista?
Not all PCs will gain a full view of Windows Vista. Microsoft Corp. has yet to finalize the minimum requirements for a PC to run its forthcoming operating system. But numerous PC industry watchers predict a dichotomy for the OS, which is due in late 2006. Although it will be able to run on all…
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TimeLab’s Chip Tunes PC Performance
Timing is everything when it comes to wringing the most out of a PC. TimeLab Corp., a 4-year-old Andover, Mass., startup founded by researchers from Zoran Corp., a maker of chips for products such as DVD drives, is expected to later this month unveil TotalClock, a digital clock chip it says replaces the traditional timing…
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Control Freak: Creating a C# Login User Control
Bigger projects often benefit by being modularized, and .NET gives you more ways to do this than does ASP. You could do a fairly good job modularizing an ASP application with subroutines, functions, and includes, but at some point you’ll find yourself forced to mix the server side code with HTML code. While mixed code…
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Sonic’s New Burner Software Adds DRM
Sonic Solutions, a digital media software company specializing in professional product groups, consumer applications and advanced technology licensing, released the newest edition of its AuthorScript Advanced Music SDK (software development kit) today. AuthorScript Advanced Music adds a number of features to the existing line of download- and- burn solutions, created for license to online music…
