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RSS cpu in newsBallmer: Microsoft says the future's green
News The report claimed at Windows XP's launch, for example, the minimum CPU requirements were 75 per cent greater than those for the operating system it replaced, Windows 2000. Vista's minimum CPU requirements are 243 per cent larger than that of XP. [06 Mar 2008]
One year on: XP still outshining Vista
News The tests, run on a Dell XPS M1710 test bed with 2GHz Core 2 Duo CPU and 1GB of RAM, put Microsoft Office 2007 through a set of productivity tasks, including creating a compound document and supporting workbooks and presentations materials. [28 Nov 2007]
Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP...
News Vista came along more RAM hungry, more CPU hungry and more disk hungry but doesn't really offer enough to justify it over XP for the average computer user. In a fight between a penguin and a leopard which one wins? [13 Nov 2007]
Is this the malware mother of all botnets?
News Paul Ducklin, head of technology at Sophos said a supercomputer differs drastically due to how CPU nodes are interconnected and the speed at which data can be pushed from one node to another. It's not so much about CPU, and RAM, and disk space. [12 Sep 2007]
Maritime watchdog monitors critical apps
News The Agency has implemented an application management system called NimBUS which monitors the CPU and memory usage of these applications and raises an alarm if any of the apps go down. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has deployed an... [03 Jul 2007]
Intel at work on Linux mini-tablet
News While McCaslin's CPU components - codenamed Stealey - will be dual-core processors clocked at 600MHz to 800MHz and capable of running Windows XP and Vista, Intel plans for the devices to run an embedded Linux OS but with a mix of open source and... [16 Apr 2007]
Big Blue to unwrap extra-brainy chips
News This allows the chip to store frequently used data very close to the CPU, where it can be accessed much faster than data that resides off the chip in the system memory. IBM is set to unveil a new way of putting memory on processors which it thinks... [14 Feb 2007]
Oracle plugs 51 holes
News Oracle's actual Tuesday 'Critical Patch Update' (CPU) has one fix less than the company originally announced. Per our policy… we removed the fix from the January CPU. We are working to resolve this issue to release the fix on all supported database... [17 Jan 2007]
Oracle tackles 65 bugs
News This is only the second time since Oracle started releasing its Critical Patch Update, or CPU, in January 2005 that it has included fixes for software that runs on PCs, not servers. Wiles said: "Customers need to think about patching desktops for... [19 Jul 2006]
Firefox for Mactels due in March, says Mozilla
News Demand for the browser on Apple's new CPU platform is expected to rocket as the PC vendor last week started selling the first Intel-powered Macs. The Mozilla Foundation has set a March launch date for a version of its Firefox web browser that will... [16 Jan 2006]
Linux enlisted for mission-critical defence app
News To maximise real-time performance, it uses symmetric multi-processing, load-balancing and CPU shielding. Real-time Linux systems vendor Concurrent has won a contract to provide mission-critical Linux software to aerospace manufacturer Lockheed... [01 Dec 2005]
Trust issues blight bank use of on-demand grids
News The vendor offers capital markets firms a predictive risk service at $1 per CPU per hour. And vendors have been quick to offer an on-demand version of grid, effectively offering to rent out processing power on a per CPU basis. [04 Oct 2005]
Symantec's pricing strategy could take a year to sort
News Veritas products have tended to be sold on a per-CPU model. Symantec has "experimented with per-CPU pricing" said John Poulter, Symantec's vice president for northern Europe, but he said the company would probably continue to see different pricing... [04 Aug 2005]
Intel shuns three low-end chipsets
News Morgan Stanley analyst Ellen Tseng said in a newsletter to investors: "Between SiS and Via, they [Intel] prefer SiS chipsets for the Intel CPU platform given the better graphic quality. Intel will phase out production of three low-end chipsets for... [04 Aug 2005]
Sun boss scorches rivals and open source
News In the Sun Grid, consumers pay $1 for each CPU-hour and then run their computing problems on a bank of servers and storage systems owned and maintained by Sun. Sun chief executive Scott McNealy was on scathing form this week at a conference to... [09 Jun 2005]
