xp in comment and analysis
Minority Report: The new 'Get a Mac' ads
Comment There's no mention about (the currently unsupported) Boot Camp, which allows Intel Macs to boot both Windows XP and Mac OS X. Secondly, the accusations of incompatibility and constant restarts are a little unfair to PCs,... [08 May 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.04.06
Round-Up Selling Pixar, putting Intel and XP inside the Mac, that kind of thing. Chinese President Hu Jintao was in Seattle and its environs this week to meet Bill Gates at Microsoft's pristine headquarters to talk shop. [21 Apr 2006]
Minority Report: XP on a Mac - a wise move?
Comment Enabling Windows XP to run on a Mac may be Steve Jobs' boldest move yet. In a nutshell, Boot Camp allows users of Intel-powered Macs to boot Windows XP natively in place of the incumbent OS X operating... [12 Apr 2006]
Analysis: Microsoft's OS update
Comment Now set to ship in January 2007, Windows Vista will be Microsoft's first major operating system release since it introduced Windows XP in 2001. Microsoft improved its file search system in Windows XP by... [22 Mar 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.09.05
Round-Up However, to give Microsoft its due, the company has come up with a clever system for easing its employees' woes and enabling them to go out to dinner parties again, knowing they won't spend the whole night listening to other people's... [16 Sep 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 05.08.05
Round-Up It's been rounded-up into a makeshift corral made of XP boxes, shot and chopped up into hamburgers. It's been a busy couple of weeks for fans of Microsoft's operating system - and let's face it there must be a few out... [09 Aug 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Security for SMBs
Comment Few will be using Windows XP and many of those that are will not have got around to installing the latest security features available in Service Pack 2. Upgrading PCs to Windows XP often requires... [28 Jan 2005]
Leader: Closure at the end of the calendar year?
Leader But arguably overshadowing all of these developments was yesterday's ruling by a European court against a Microsoft appeal of an earlier decision to make it unbundle its Media Player software from its operating system, Windows... [23 Dec 2004]
The Yearly Round-Up: 23.12.04
Comment We brought out Windows XP SP2 just this very year.albeit a little behind schedule. Merry Christmas to all you dear readers who are working up until Christmas Eve, or all the way through the festive season - rest assured... [23 Dec 2004]
Opinion: A bad case of worms
Comment A recent series of tests showed that a broadband PC with Windows XP SP1 was compromised in less than four minutes with an average of 341 attacks per hour. Put Windows XP SP2 with a ZoneAlarm firewall on... [21 Dec 2004]
Q&A: Microsoft's CIO on Linux, security and offshoring
Comment First, he moved Microsoft's entire network to Windows XP Service Pack 2. If anyone has a right to complain about buggy Microsoft products, it's Ron Markezich, the software maker's chief information officer. [15 Dec 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: How the CIO differs from the traditional IT director
Comment Even an upgrade in a large organisation to Windows XP can cost millions. This has been the year of the first silicon.com CIO Forum, an event where I really fired up the audience by saying it is easier for an executive to... [08 Dec 2004]
IT consulting: Techie skills no longer enough
Comment The technology skills most in demand for IT projects have remained fairly static over the past couple of years and include the usual suspects such as SQL, Unix, C++, C#, .Net and J2EE, internet and web, security, Windows 2003, Windows... [01 Dec 2004]
IT consulting: Small firms flourishing
Comment Another consulting house, Exoftware, provides mentoring for companies who want to change the methodology of their software development processes with 'agile' techniques such as dynamic systems development methodology (DSDM) and extreme... [18 Nov 2004]
Steve Ballmer Q&A: Microsoft CEO on security, piracy, licensing and the digital future
Comment Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) has pushed things out, but in fact SP2 really was a major browser release. Q: What about security for all the customers not on XP? We need to have ways of isolating those... [05 Oct 2004]
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