After both public and private betas galore, Microsoft is set to make the final, gold Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 bits available, most likely next week, according to various reports.
Archive for February 1st, 2008
Feb1
Reports: Vista SP1 gold bits on track for next week
Filed in: Microsoft
Feb1
Microsoft and Yahoo: Is it a threat to Google?
Microsoft is offering Yahoo $44.6bn for the company, and by the sounds of it, they will get it — even if it has to be done the hard way. But will the new company have any impact on Google’s domination of the search/search ad market?
The short and dirty answer is no. At least […]
Filed in: Google
Feb1
Prosecutors Aim to Blockade Pirate Bay
Swedish prosecutors are charging owners of The Pirate Bay, a peer-to-peer Web site, with “promoting other people’s infringements of copyright laws.” Hans Fredrik Neij, Per Svartholm Warg, Peter Kolmisoppi and Carl Lundstroem operate what is reportedly the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker, connecting users to music, movies and other content on each others’ PCs.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Feb1
MacBook Air 1.6Ghz HDD vs 1.8Ghz SSD Benchmarks
Many readers are reporting shipments and delivery in our MacBook Air forum. First impressions and notes of the MacBook Air are being compiled in this thread. Few head to head comparisons between the Solid State Drive (SSD) and Hard Disk Drive (HD…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Feb1
Microsoft’s Yahoo play: Some love it; some hate it
Former Softie Robert Scoble thinks Microsoft’s bid to buy Yahoo is the first “interesting” thing Microsoft has done in over a year. A poster on the Mini-Microsoft blog called the Microsoft play “assinine,” and equated it to “John Edwards merging with Rudy (Guiliani).” I have to say I fall more into the “hate it” than “love it” camp on this one. You?
Filed in: Microsoft
Feb1
How do I… Install plugins for Firefox in Linux?
For many, one of the biggest obstacles in Linux is installing applications. Because the computing world has grown so accustomed to click and install, the idea of having to manually install something is very foreign. And that is one of the reasons Firefox and Linux sometimes make for a deadly…
Filed in: Software
Feb1
Mac market share keeps moving upwards
Web statistics vendor Net Applications on Friday released its browser and operating system figures for January. The Mac share is again up, inching past 7.5 percent for the month.
According to the site’s calculations, the Mac share for January was 7.57 percent and the Windows share was 91.46 percent. The company said that for two […]
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Feb1
Gartner Predictions: Apple Doubles Market Share, Laptops Lose Ground
If Gartner proves prescient, there could be some heady times ahead for Apple. The Cupertino, Calif.-based firm figures prominently in a list Gartner released Thursday of predictions on 2008 and beyond. The predictions focus on specific areas in which IT leaders will have to make adjustments, and many of those areas concern the decreased emphasis on hardware and the adaptability of software.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Feb1
Intel, Micron Put NAND’s Pedal to the Metal
Intel and Micron have developed a high-speed NAND flash memory technology the two say is five times faster than conventional NAND. The technology, jointly developed by the two companies as part of their IM Flash Technologies joint venture, will allow data to be transferred faster for computing, video, photography and other applications, the technology partners said Friday.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Feb1
Out, out, da*n spam!
Outlook’s Junk Mail filter is enabled, but you still find junk mail in your custom folders. Where does it come from? Well, truth be told, it comes from Hel…. Seriously, I have many rules that shuffle messages into recipient- and topic-specific custom folders. Occasionally, a junk message…
Filed in: Software
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