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Novell - Microsoft deal extended
Who would have thought the Novell-Microsoft deal would lsat this long? It originally seemed to be Novell inviting its customers to cave in to Microsoft's unsubstantiated patent... More
Transys comment speculation
I've been pondering why it's so difficult to get any official comment out of any of the organisations involved when it comes to what is happening with Transys. Transys is the consortium... More
IDF: Intel announces TV platform, chan...
I'm in a keynote at the Intel Developer Forum, and Intel has just announced two major iniatives in combining IT and TV. In conjunction with Yahoo, Intel has created the Widget Channel,... More
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Official MS Windows 7 Bloggers
Check this out: http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/08/14/welcome.aspx Its an official blog "Engineering Windows 7" Nothing. That's what is revealed. Until there is real information...
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Microsoft's Mojave just a desert vista
It didn't seem fair to wade into Microsoft's “Mojave Experiment” advert quite so soon after the flat earth incident. But The Economist has no such qualms: in this week's issue, it wonders if it had...
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... But Still a Few Things Amiss (with Vista)
It's not all roses with Vista, of course. I had my first BSOD over the weekend, when I was turning the laptop back on after suspending it. They typical long blurb about "If this is the first...
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Server consolidation Special Report
Stratus ftServer 6200
Review The ftServer 6200 VMware bundle makes an excellent platform for hosting virtual machines. As VMware servers cannot be clustered, the Stratus offering is about the only option for organisations requiring extreme high availability from their ESX Server environments.
