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Photos: The latest Windows Phones from HTC, Sony Ericsson
Photo While Microsoft's share of the mobile OS market may have waned of late, Windows Mobile continues to find its way onto shiny new hardware. Pictured above is the Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 - the follow-up device to the mobile... [13 Nov 2009]
Bing sheds its beta skin in the UK
News Microsoft first announced Bing back in May, as a replacement for Windows Live Search. Microsoft has announced the UK version of its search engine Bing has shed its beta tag today. The UK localised version of its Google... [13 Nov 2009]
Business Value of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Live Migration
White Paper Read the whitepaper to see how Windows Server 2008 R2 is making this process seamless. Today's IT departments are under increasing pressure to manage and support expanding computer resources while reducing costs. [12 Nov 2009]
How Windows Server 2008 R2 Helps Optimize IT and Save You Money
White Paper Windows Server 2008 R2 was designed and built with these goals in mind and addresses cost savings across a number of areas. Read the whitepaper to find out how Windows Server 2008 R2 can improve... [12 Nov 2009]
Usability Study of Windows Vista's Firewall
White Paper Windows Vista is shipped with a built-in personal firewall. The firewall has lots of new features over its predecessor, XP's firewall. But, previous studies showed that Vista's firewall have a set of usability problems. [12 Nov 2009]
Sun and VMware Solutions Guide for Windows Server Consolidation
White Paper Designing a Windows server consolidation initiative creates a new set of challenges for the storage infrastructure - storage solutions must offer simplicity, performance, availability, and ease of management. [12 Nov 2009]
7 Steps to Migrate From Windows XP to Windows 7 Using WinINSTALL and Survey
White Paper According to Microsoft's Technet Website, "There is no Upgrade option available when installing Windows 7 on a computer running Windows XP. The task involves using Windows Easy Transfer... [12 Nov 2009]
Rootkits Part 2: A Technical Primer
White Paper This paper examines the technologies that make stealth possible on the Microsoft Windows platform. After a brief explanation of the basic security architecture of Windows, it explores the many methods... [12 Nov 2009]
MSI Deployment of Desktop Validator: Deploying and Configuring Tumbleweed Desktop Validator Using ActiveDirectory and Group Policy
White Paper DV Enterprise is a CAPI 2.0 compliant digital certificate status provider for Microsoft Windows, which seamlessly enables certificate revocation checking for Microsoft server applications including the... [12 Nov 2009]
Revealing Hidden Context: Improving Mental Models of Personal Firewall Users
White Paper The Windows Vista personal firewall provides its diverse users with a basic interface that hides many operational details. However, concealing the impact of network context on the security state of the firewall may... [12 Nov 2009]
Comparing Research in Motion and Microsoft Mobile Solutions
White Paper This paper compares the Research In Motion BlackBerry solution (BlackBerry mobile devices and BlackBerry Enterprise Server) with the Microsoft mobile solution (Microsoft Windows Mobile and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007... [12 Nov 2009]
Virtual Server-SAN Connectivity: Why Blade Server Virtualization and Fibre Channel SAN Connectivity Are Rapidly Being Adopted
White Paper NPIV-capable drivers for Windows, Linux and VMware have been demonstrated and are now in the final stages of productization. Emulex is currently the only vendor offering NPIV support in its HBAs, both traditional and... [12 Nov 2009]
Patching. Is It Always With the Best Intentions?
White Paper This paper will describe how hooking into the operating system has changed over the years, including some examples of the most 'Interesting' methods from MS DOS, early Windows versions and present-day contemporary methods. [12 Nov 2009]
Service Level Agreement (SLA) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration for Cloud Computing
White Paper The paper will also look into a case study from Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud System and identify the techniques that they have adopted in the area of SLA control. This paper studies the SLA process, with focus on the... [12 Nov 2009]
Future mobiles, Windows 7, iPhone apps and the latest gadgets
Photo Google Android is also featuring on netbooks, with Acer recently launching a device that can dual boot both the open source OS and Windows 7. Here's Aero's Alt+Tab hotkey in use, which shows previews of the actual open... [12 Nov 2009]
