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Last month I wrote about my experiences using touch-enabled applications under Windows 7, and in particular, looking at HP's TouchSmart applications . I've had more time recently to try out a new HP TouchSmart 300, a 20-inch all-in-one based on an Athlon II X2 processor, and to take a closer ...
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As I head home from Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference (PDC), I'm struck by the rapid evolution of current software platforms, from Microsoft as well as from other players. In just about every segment of the market, the way software is written and deployed is shifting. This is bound ...
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Kurt DelBene, Senior VP announced at the Professional Developers Conference this morning that Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 betas are available now at www.microsoft.com/2010 , along with Project 2010 and Visio 2010. He also said that the Windows mobile clients were also available in ...
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At today's Professional Developer Conference, Scott Guthrie, corporate VP of Microsoft's Developer Division, announced Silverlight 4. With this version, Guthrie said, the company is focusing on media, business applications, and working "behind the browser," with features such as ...
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At the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference today, Stephen Sinofsky, president of the newly renamed Windows and Windows Live Division, spoke about the process for developing Windows, and pressed developers to use the new features in Windows 7.
Perhaps the biggest cheer came when ...
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At today's Professional Developer Conference, Stephen Sinofsky, president of the newly renamed Windows and Windows Live division showed off early work on Internet Explorer 9, focusing both on Javascript performance and new features. He talked ...
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Why are customers developing for Azure? At a press roundtable this afternoon, Microsoft presented four of its partners to talk about what they were doing. Meanwhile, Amazon Web Services was also on display at the conference, handling out information on how some of its customers were ...
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At Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference, Bob Muglia, the company's president of server and tools, talked about how applications are evolving in the cloud era. He also showed off some new and upcoming features for Azure and Visual Studio.
Muglia said Microsoft has been talking about ...
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While the big focus of this morning's Professional Developers Conference keynote was back-end servers, tools, and cloud computing, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said the company would focus on the user experience in applications such as Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 tomorrow, ...
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Today AMD shared more details of its upcoming Fusion processors for the first time. Chekib Akrout, general manager of AMD's Technology group, said the company is creating two very different new x86 cores: Bulldozer, designed for servers and mainstream desktop and notebook clients, and Bobcat, a ...
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For me, the most interesting part of AMD's Analyst Day this morning was the discussion of the next generation of Fusion processors.
Rick Bergman, Senior Vice president and general manager for the company's product group, said the upcoming Fusion processor, which will have both CPU and GPU ...
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Does it matter whether you buy a machine with an Intel processor or one with an AMD processor? Both companies will tell you it does matter: Intel would stress the better performance it claims to offer, and AMD would talk about better integrated graphics and better value. But with a new crop of ...
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If your car had a fast, always-on Web connection, how would you want to use it?I I wondered about this last night, as I sat in an "" promoted by Alcatel-Lucent and other members of the "ng Connect" program. The car, a modified Toyota, had four screens, one for the driver and three for ...
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With the explosion of new Windows 7 PCs on the market, I wanted to take a look at some real machines. What are people really getting when they bring one of these machines home? Well, I found a number of happy surprises and some unhappy ones as well. In general, the good news was on the hardware ...
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While IT budgets have often been cut during the economic slowdown, information technology is actually one of the best tools for reversing the slowdown. So said Howard Rubin of Rubin Worldwide at the SIM CIO Executive Leadership Summit yesterday.
Rubin told us that the world spends $4.2 ...
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Which technologies are CIOs really using, and which ones are just hype? That was one of the questions that underlined part of yesterday's CIO Executive Leadership Summit sponsored by the Society of Information Management.
In a panel on emerging technologies, the audience was asked about ...
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A combination of virtualization, better hardware, and elimination of unnecessary applications helped Dell save $200 million out of a $1 billion IT budget this year, according to two of the company's senior managers, speaking at the Society of Information Management's CIO Executive Leadership ...
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In this era of shrinking budgets, Anne Mulcahy, Chairman of Xerox Corporation, told a group of CIOs that now is a great time to invest in IT technology and IT infrastructure. "If you stop investing today, you clearly will pay the price tomorrow," she said. Speaking at the 2009 CIO Executive ...
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It's probably just human nature to look back at the times gone by, the people we once knew, and the products we once used. But while I have been known to talk about the computers we once used, it's nearly always to contrast those machines with the ones we have today, and talk about how far we've ...
