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Small Businesses Upgrade Personal Computer Operating Systems And Gain Extra Security
White Papers As Microsoft Gold Certified Partners, both companies had the opportunity to deploy a prerelease version of Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, an update to the Windows XP Professional desktop operating system.
[August 12, 2008, 1:17]
PC Makers Ready To Throw Out The Windows
News Major personal-computer makers are quietly working on a wave of products that won't use Microsoft's Windows PC-operating system, the source of the software giant's market power. Compaq hasn't decided what basic software to use in its Internet line...
[October 28, 1999, 13:20]
Wiping The Slate Clean For Windows
News With the notable exception of Mac OS, software vendors simply layered early personal computer graphical interfaces onto the underlying operating system. Historically speaking, software vendors generally designed operating systems to manage the...
[November 25, 2005, 8:20]
Opinion: One Cheer For The DOJ
News The interim judgement states that Microsoft shall "desist from the practice of licensing the use of any Microsoft personal computer operating system software (including Windows 95 or any successor version thereof) on the condition.that the...
[December 12, 1997, 11:13]
Motorola To License 3Com's Palm OS
News British palmtop computer group Psion (quote: PON) and US telecoms equipment maker Motorola said on Tuesday that Motorola is still fully committed to the Symbian operating-system alliance, in the wake of Motorola's deal with handheld company Palm.
[December 14, 1999, 15:24]
IBM Chases A PC's Soul
News The virtual computer user environment setup is called SoulPad, and consumers install it from an x86-based home or office PC. SoulPad uses a USB or FireWire connection to access the network cards for connecting to the Internet, the computer's...
[August 15, 2005, 9:30]
Lotus Founder Preps Open Source Outlook Alternative
News Mitch Kapor, co-founder of Lotus Development and a pioneer of personal computer software, thinks so. Kapor is credited with designing Lotus 1-2-3, a spreadsheet program that helped drive the personal computer revolution in the 1980s.
[October 23, 2002, 8:02]
Personal Firewalls Could Leak Private Info
News Personal firewalls were not traditionally for stopping malicious programs from running on your computer," he said. The premise behind all these kinds of exploits is that you have to get the malicious code onto your computer in the first place," he...
[November 12, 2001, 10:36]
Microsoft Declares A 'war On Hostile Code'
News The software giant also intends to start rating its updates on how critical they are for the computer user to install. And a "credential manager" will enable user to securely store their passwords for Internet sites on their computer in a digital...
[April 11, 2001, 12:22]
Google Unveils Desktop Search
News It's like photographic memory for your computer -- if you've seen it before, you should be able to find it," said Marissa Mayer, director of consumer Web products at Google. That could prove embarrassing if someone else has access to the user's...
[October 14, 2004, 15:40]
Xen Getting Multiprocessor Support
News Xen is a 'hypervisor' -- a thin layer of software that governs how different operating systems get access to computer resources such as processors and memory. In prevailing industry argot, its job is to virtualize computer resources, letting...
[June 13, 2005, 18:10]
Apple Bets Big On Synchronisation
News Apple Computer is refining a strategy for connecting cell phones and other portable devices to its Macintosh systems in an effort to boost sales. I don't think people understand that how (the cell phone) works with the computer could be a reason...
[December 19, 2002, 11:47]
Java Spat Brews Up Court Battle
Talkback When an individual can turn on his or her computer and have the choice of operating system and choice of office system presented on the opening screen then I will believe that the computer I purchased will be my own personal property free of any...
[December 10, 2003, 11:53]
CleanScapes Management Firm Gains Reliability And Mobility With Windows XP, Office XP, And IBM Hardware
White Papers By integrating the Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional operating system and Microsoft Office XP Professional on an IBM NetVista personal computer and an IBM ThinkPad notebook computer into its network, CleanScapes, a 20-employee streetscape...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Universal Audio Architecture
White Papers The Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) describes class driver architecture for personal computer (PC) audio solutions supported in the next version of the Microsoft Windows operating system, codenamed Windows Longhorn.
[April 1, 2004, 0:04]
USB Audio Devices And Windows
White Papers The Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) describes class driver architecture for personal computer (PC) audio solutions supported in the next version of the Microsoft Windows operating system, codenamed “Windows Longhorn.” This paper provides...
[July 3, 2007, 4:04]
DOS - By The Bootstraps...
White Papers All personal computer processing start in stages. This paper presents how the computer self-starts. Once this tiny amount of initial code has run, the system then looks on the floppy or hard drive for the most basic components of an operating system.
[October 8, 2003, 0:18]
MSDN Webcast: Application Virtualization And Software Streaming Within Systems Management Server (Level 200)
White Papers In this webcast, learn how application virtualization and software streaming within Microsoft Systems Management Server can accelerate application and operating system deployments, eliminate application conflicts by enabling to run any application...
[May 1, 2008, 1:02]
TechNet Webcast: Application Virtualization And Software Streaming Within Systems Management Server (Level 300)
White Papers The viewer of this webcast will learn how application virtualization and software streaming within Microsoft Systems Management Server can accelerate application and operating system deployments, eliminate application conflicts by enabling the...
[March 31, 2007, 1:00]
Running Backup As A System Service
White Papers Each user can run programs on a system while he/she is logged in, but he/she has to close all applications before logging out or switching off the computer. When one start the computer, one need to enter the login name and password.
[September 1, 2006, 0:00]
