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How File Fragmentation Occurs on Windows XP / Windows Server 2003
White Paper A while ago there was a little research project to find out exactly how fragmentation occurs on Windows XP. Well, it turns out that Windows XP/2003 fragments files whether or not all the... [16 Oct 2009]
The ROI of Defragmenting the Windows Enterprise
White Paper This paper covers disk fragmentation, the problems it creates, and how that translates to lost time and productivity on a massive scale. IDC conducted lab tests to find the actual performance and productivity losses... [16 Oct 2009]
Chrome OS: What Google can do, Ubuntu does better
Comment They'll say this because if there is one problem that the Linux and open source community has suffered repeatedly over the past two decades, it's been fragmentation. The growing dominance of Ubuntu (at least on the... [08 Jul 2009]
Google Android: Spreading beyond phones?
News And while they've had significant success, there's a lot of fragmentation, with nothing as universal as Windows or as standardised as the iPhone. But some Android partners say the software will be used... [23 Sep 2008]
LiMo Foundation launches Linux Android rival
News The resulting fragmentation has limited Linux to lower-end mobile phones, with the higher-end smart phone development community largely organised around Symbian, Windows Mobile, RIM's BlackBerry and... [31 Mar 2008]
Disk Defragmentation - Background
White Paper Fragmentation is a natural occurrence that cannot be avoided, but it can be controlled. In the Microsoft Windows XP operating system, clusters usually are 4,096 bytes in size. Every hard drive stores... [23 Jan 2007]
Trolltech simplifies mobile Linux
News Lawson claimed Greensuite was about "avoiding or reducing fragmentation in the Linux mobile space", and would provide an easier licensing scenario than the challenge of dealing with multiple software suppliers, as mobile... [30 Nov 2006]
Linux mobile standards in the pipeline
News We're interested in reducing fragmentation and introducing a standard Linux platform that will allow people to make Linux phones faster, at lower cost, and with greater interoperability. Now Palm is moving in a different... [14 Nov 2005]
Big guns back Linux standard
News Zemlin asserts that Microsoft has been overstating the idea that Linux is unstable, in an attempt to instil a "fear of fragmentation" about open source products across the IT industry. If you look at the days of Unix... [14 Sep 2004]
Symbian to head smart phone market
News The software is highly customisable and inexpensive but is not as standardised as the Symbian OS, the report said, arguing that "fragmentation of Linux will continue to stagnate its growth". Microsoft's... [12 Jan 2004]
RealNetworks to launch digital song store
News The release of RealNetworks' new service highlights increasing fragmentation in the online music market, in which different companies continue to adopt incompatible copy-protection mechanisms, each of which in turn are... [06 Jan 2004]
Smart phone race - Symbian v Symbian, not Microsoft v Symbian?
News A fragmentation caused by lots of slightly different Symbian devices might well mean application developers, looking to address the largest market, will then be more inclined to write for Windows... [03 Jun 2003]
Agenda Setters: Ellison talks up centralised computing
News Worse than the labour costs - the data fragmentation costs if you're a big business. In a press conference in London last month, Ellison claimed companies will shy away from deploying smaller Windows NT... [03 Nov 1999]
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