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whitepaper Back in the days of Windows 3.1, you could choose what Windows components you wanted to install. Since then, however, Windows setup has given customers less and less control over what bits should make it over onto your servers and workstations.
[30 Apr 2008]
News Earlier on Thursday, Microsoft reported weak Windows sales for its fiscal third quarter ended in March and gave a forecast for the fourth quarter ending in June at the low end of Wall Street expectations, sending its shares down nearly five per cent.
[25 Apr 2008]
Comment Like every other market, Microsoft is there too with its own Windows Mobile operating system and platform. Yet it was an event that could make 2008 a significant milestone in the evolution of the mobile phone as a platform, says Seb Janacek.
[23 Apr 2008]
News He said that while the market is currently dominated by Nokia and Symbian, Linux and the "growing stature" of Windows Mobile will put pressure on the establishment. The 'iPhone effect' is filtering through the rest of the handset market as other...
[25 Mar 2008]
News It is our view that Microsoft has significant potential upside given the continued solid growth in our core businesses, the recent launch of Windows Vista, and other strategic initiatives. Microsoft today made a $44.6bn offer for web giant Yahoo!
[01 Feb 2008]
News As part of the patches, Apple also shipped a patch for Windows users of Safari that was addressed for Mac users as part of the larger series of patches. It's download time again for Mac OS X users, as 31 new security-related fixes for both Tiger...
[18 Dec 2007]
News However, when Vista with the SP1 beta was put through benchmark testing by researchers at Devil Mountain Software the improvement was not overwhelming - leaving the latest Windows iteration outshined by its predecessor.
[28 Nov 2007]
whitepaper This paper looks at how an automated storage provisioning solution can be realized for a Windows environment using IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center 3.1 (TPC) and IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager 3.1 (TPM).
[30 Oct 2007]
News Bowing to pressure from customers and computer makers, Microsoft plans to keep Windows XP around a little longer. However, they have successfully lobbied Microsoft to allow them to continue selling PCs with all flavors of Windows XP preloaded until...
[28 Sep 2007]
News While Microsoft is still pushing Vista hard, the company is quietly allowing PC makers to offer a "downgrade" option to buyers that get machines with the new operating system but want to switch to Windows XP.
[24 Sep 2007]
whitepaper It supports Linux and Microsoft Windows unmodified operating systems as well as virtualization-ready Linux operating systems. XenSource XenEnterprise 3.1 software enables the consolidation of multiple operating systems onto a single physical HP...
[08 May 2007]
whitepaper Virtual Iron 3.1 Enterprise Edition, when installed on the HP BladeSystem with an HP StorageWorks 8000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA8000), creates a virtualized data center model supporting both Linux and Microsoft Windows guest operating systems...
[08 May 2007]
News In the first quarter to include consumer sales of Windows Vista and Office 2007, Microsoft reported profits that topped Wall Street estimates. Chief operating officer Kevin Turner said in a statement: "This quarter marked the consumer launches of...
[27 Apr 2007]
News Microsoft Windows has the lowest number of vulnerabilities and the fastest turnaround time for patches of all commercial operating systems - but it also has the most serious flaws, according to Symantec.
[23 Mar 2007]
whitepaper The company uses Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 to closely monitor its messaging infrastructure and help keep such mission-critical Windows-based systems up and running smoothly. When Nissan needed to improve desktop management and server...
[08 Feb 2007]
News The smart2go service will initially work on Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile 5.0 platforms but will be rolled out to other platforms too, including Linux. Nokia has launched a mapping, navigation and location-based services (LBS) system for use on its...
[08 Feb 2007]
News With holiday PC sales apparently unscathed by the lack of Windows Vista, Microsoft reported quarterly profits that topped expectations and its own forecast. In addition, Microsoft said it took in, but deferred, $1.64bn of revenue to account for an...
[26 Jan 2007]
News Other over-hyped technologies last year included web 2.0 and Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system, with Vista tipped to be the most-hyped technology over the next 12 months, along with SOA and software as a service.
[15 Jan 2007]
whitepaper Windows Vista will be the biggest change in PC computing since the introduction of Windows 3.1 in 1992. Windows Vista brings all these developments together and exploits them to the user's benefit. Windows Vista taps into that horsepower and makes...
[08 Dec 2006]
News The hype around Microsoft Windows Vista does not appear to have turned it into a priority for many IT directors/CIOs and helpdesk managers," he said. According to an online survey of 1,305 IT professionals conducted last week, 46 per cent of...
[08 Dec 2006]
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