10 reasons not to get Vista
It's all too easy to get caught up in the million dollar marketing engine as we approach the consumer release of Windows Vista, so lets not forget that it isn't the second coming, and by all counts is an upgrade you can do without.
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22.1.2007 10 reasons you should get Vista
My colleague Ashton Mills published
the top 10 reasons you shouldn't get Vista few days ago. I see his point on some fronts -- admittedly, Microsoft's official publicity material hasn't done a great job of explaining the basic benefits of Vista.
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24.1.2007 10 Reasons Why You Won't Ever Want to Go Back to XP from Vista
Released for businesses in November 2006, and for the general public in January 2007, Windows Vista is but a couple of days away from passing the first six months of availability milestone.
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28.7.2007 10 reasons to buy new hardware now - during a recession
TechRepublic guest post: It may seem like the last thing you want to do in the midst of tough economic times is invest in new hardware.
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20.1.2009 Top 10 reasons why you should upgrade to Windows 7
With the Windows 7 Release Candidate already leaked to the public, and the the official bits coming May 5, there's been a lot of hype surrounding Windows 7, with generally positive reviews from the community. Windows 7 is everything Vista wasn't... and some of what it should of been.
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28.4.2009 Microsoft: Top 10 Reasons to Stay Away from Google Apps
Google Apps and the Microsoft Office 2007 System have been sicced one another as rivals and with both the Mountain View and the Redmond companies failing to share a common perspective on either the two solutions are indeed competing.
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11.9.2007 Microsoft Cites Top 10 Reasons Partners Should Pitch Vista
Microsoft cut the WinFS file system and PC-to-PC synchronization from Windows Vista, but the company says there are at least 10 key reasons for partners to push the upgraded desktop operating system to their SMB customers.
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11.7.2006 Tasty Morsels Found In Dogfood-Top 10 reasons Microsoft.com chose IIS7
Dogfood….yummmm! Yes it is true, Microsoft.com has been running Beta 3 of Windows Server 2008 in production since June 12, 2007. What does that mean?
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8.9.2007 Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience VI
The moment has come once again to pimp your Windows XP with the skills of a power user and the tool that will always be at your disposal, Notepad. This article, along with the previous ones, will allow you to enhance and customize your operating system with advanced IT knowledge.
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29.11.2008 Opera 10 Beta Version 10.00b1 download
The well-known web browser, Opera has released its new Opera Browser 10 beta version, which features faster speeds, new enhanced tabs and automatic update. The new Opera Brower 10 beta comes with Opera Turbo for fast browsing on slow connections.
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26.6.2009 Eight Reasons to Think Before Buying an iPhone
Apple made a big splash when it announced the iPhone last month. But with its hefty price tag, restriction to a single carrier and departure from many traditional smart-phone features, buying the iPhone requires careful forethought.
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8.2.2007 Six reasons OSX will not go mainstream
Apple has a great consumer OS on its hands. Its sleek, it's easy to use and it will not ever make it to mainstream America.
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13.11.2008 Forget about DirectX 10 - Introducing DirectX 10.1 Preview for Windows Vista SP1
Forget about Windows Vista's DirectX 10, Microsoft is delivering a preview of DirectX 10.1 associated with the first service pack for the operating system. The Direct3D 10.1 Tech Preview is an integer part of the August 2007, DirectX Software Development Kit, and is designed to provide the evolution of the current Direct3D 10.0.
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30.7.2007 The 5 Reasons Why Blu-Ray Will Win
This week Stephen Speicher and his engadget column The Clicker discusses the five reasons why he believes Blu-Ray will win the battle against HD-DVD. Some of the major points made are format security, computer manufacturer support, and overall capacity.
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Three reasons why CES is a waste of time
For those of you who have made it to CES at least once in your life, you probably know all about the amount walking and waiting in line and shoving that goes in to any good trip to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show.
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9.1.2008 Google Chrome - reasons to avoid
As we reported, Google has released the first beta of their new web browser, Google Chrome. Within a day of its release, there are already a couple of points that users should be cautioned of before using this new browser.
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5.9.2008 50 Reasons to switch from Windows to OS X?
Or, a lost sheep’s ongoing struggle to stay relevant in this internet age.
In a post last week, on St. Valentine’s Day no less, Pirillo states his 50 reasons to switch from Windows (any version?) to OS X.
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19.2.2008 Top 6 Vista Application Incompatibility Reasons
Application incompatibility is one of the aspects that have managed to deliver extensive damage to the adoption rate of Windows Vista.
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24.5.2008 Six reasons Microsoft will continue to lose market share
Microsoft has positioned itself at the top, a top that is targeted by hundreds if not thousands of companies.
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21.11.2008 Reasons to skip Microsoft’s Windows 7 Beta download
As many of you know, I’m a hardcore Mac guy - but I wasn’t always this way. My experiences with Windows Vista sent me over the edge, prompting me to add the “hardcore” next to my “Mac guy” title.
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11.1.2009 5 Reasons Windows 7 Is A Better Deal For Students Than Snow Leopard
Microsoft took on rival Apple head on this week in the education market with a special offer for students to purchase Windows 7 for $30, about the same price as Apple's competing Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
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19.9.2009 Top Ten Reasons to use Windows Small Business Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 is designed for businesses like yours. It is a complete, affordable network solution that helps you stay connected with your customers and run your business more efficiently. And it helps secure your network by automatically protecting your information to keep your business up and running.
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2.3.2006 3 Reasons Why You Should Jump on Vista SP1 and Completely Ignore XP SP3
By maintaining the parallel availability of Windows Vista and Windows XP, Microsoft is successfully offering inhouse competition to its own products.
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18.10.2007 XP SP3 and Windows 7, the Wrong Reasons to Skip Vista SP1
In the evolution of the Windows client, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is a step set firmly between Windows XP SP2 and Windows 7, just as well as the RTM version of the operating system.
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29.4.2008 Windows SideShow on 10
Laura and Tina over at the 10 Show take a look at Windows SideShow.
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9.5.2006 The Wait Is Over: Ubuntu 7.10 Is Here
As promised, Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) was released a few minutes ago, and it's my deepest pleasure to introduce you guys to the new features to be found in this version of Ubuntu (which is based on the GNOME desktop environment) and also to the features from Kubuntu (same as Ubuntu, but based on the popular KDE desktop environment).
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18.10.2007 Ubuntu 8.10 Released
After six alphas, a beta and a release candidate, Ubuntu 8.10 is here, today (October 30th), available on mirrors worldwide (see below for download links), and it's my greatest pleasure to introduce you guys to the highlights of this new release dubbed Intrepid Ibex.
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30.10.2008 10 things you should look for in a netbook
Who saw this coming? In the day and age of quad-core CPUs, 17-inch laptop displays, and terabyte hard disks, who’d have thought small laptops with slow CPUs and little storage would set the world afire. But that’s just what’s happened.
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19.4.2009 Opera 10 released
Ah, September 1. Not a particularly eventful day... aside from a few obscure public holidays (it's Knowledge Day in Russia!) and other events of the sort, it's hard to say that there's much going on (well, there might be something else happening).
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1.9.2009 Windows 7 10-Second Boot
Over a year ago, Microsoft revealed that it considered 15 seconds the ideal startup time for Windows 7 under laboratory conditions.
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7.10.2009Top 10 reasons why you should upgrade to Windows 7
With the Windows 7 Release Candidate already leaked to the public, and the the official bits coming May 5, there's been a lot of hype surrounding
Windows 7, with generally positive reviews from the community. Windows 7 is everything Vista wasn't... and some of what it should of been. If
you're using XP or Vista, there's no excuse not to upgrade to Windows 7. In no particular order, here are my top 10 reasons why: Virtual XP
Mode: Many users and businesses have been reluctant to upgrade past Windows XP, and who can blame them? Microsoft had to keep extending support for
Windows XP for this reason.
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28.04.2009MSN Direct Enables Web Sites to Deliver Location Information to GPS Navigation Devices
Today Microsoft Corp. released an open application programming interface (API) for the MSN Direct Send to GPS feature for navigation devices. This
allows any Web site to offer visitors the ability to send addresses, business listings, or other locations directly from the site to their GPS unit,
eliminating the cumbersome step of re-entering or searching for the same information on their navigation device.
The API is an
extension of the MSN Direct feature initially launched at International CES earlier this year. With this updated version, MSN Direct allows any Web
site to send location information to navigation devices either wirelessly or via a USB connection. The wireless delivery is compatible with MSN
Direct-enabled devices that have the Send to GPS feature, including several units from Garmin Ltd. such as the nüvi 780 and nüvi 880, along with
nüvi 5000, nüvi 750, nüvi 760, or nüvi 2x5 series devices with the optional MSN Direct receiver. USB delivery is also compatible with the vast
majority of remaining Garmin navigators.
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29.07.2008Top 10 reasons you shouldn't be a project manager
You've all seen top 10 lists of the best traits of a project manager or the top 10 skills of a project manager. However, project management is not
for everyone. Many people have some of the traits to be a good project manager, but they also have many traits that make them a bad fit for the
position. Here's my list of indications that you may not be well suited to be a project manager. Note: These are not in any ranked order.
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01.10.2007VMware betas virtual management toolkit
Server virtualisation pioneer VMware has
started beta testing its
Virtual Infrastructure (VI) Toolkit for Windows, which allows administrators to automate many of the management processes for virtual environments.
VI Toolkit for Windows provides a command line interface for the automation of repetitive tasks such as snapshots, moving large
numbers of virtual machines from one virtual switch to another, or reporting and monitoring across an organisation's entire virtual
infrastructure.
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17.03.2008The top 10 reasons Web sites get hacked
Web security is at the top of customers' minds after many well-publicized personal data breaches, but the people who actually build Web applications
aren't paying much attention to security, experts say.
"They're totally ignoring it," says IT consultant Joel Snyder. "When
you go to your Web site design team, what you're looking for is people who are creative and able to build these interesting Web sites... That's No.
1, and No. 9 on the list would be that it's a secure Web site."
The biggest problem is designers aren't building walls within
Web applications to partition and validate data moving between parts of the system, he says.
Security is usually something
that's considered after a site is built rather than before it is designed, agrees Khalid Kark, senior analyst at Forrester.
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06.10.2007Intriguing theory on DirectX 10 and its absence from Windows XP
The parties involved would
never admit whether
this
Inquirer story is true,
but it's entertaining enough
that we just had to link to
it. Grain of salt and all that
(the article lists no sources,
for example) but the theory as
reported says that Microsoft
started off with sound
technical reasons for making
DirectX 10 exclusive to
Windows Vista. Due to alleged
driver troubles from Nvidia,
Microsoft is supposed to have
loosened the requirements, and
now its supposedly very
possible to port DirectX 10
back to Windows XP.
Even if DX 10 on XP can be
done, Microsoft won't allow
it for business reasons--it
wants people to buy Vista, or
so the story goes
One
of our missions out here at E3
this week is to talk to as
many PC gaming developers as
possible to find out what the
near-term future of DirectX 10
looks like, especially for the
purposes of benchmarking PCs
and graphics cards. We don't
expect to hear from anyone
about DirectX 10 coming to
Windows XP, but we do expect
plenty of "no comments" when
we ask about this story.
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11.07.2007Moroccan jailed for fake prince Facebook profile pardoned
A Moroccan computer engineer who was put in jail last month for pretending to be the brother of Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Facebook has been
pardoned and released from prison...
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21.03.200810 reasons why you shouldn't be an IT manager
At one time or another, most of us will come to a point in our lives when it's time to determine our next step. As a business and success coach, I
often hear from people who are wondering if it's time to make a change in their lives. Things may be going well, or not-so-well, but for whatever
reason, they're thinking that it's time for change. They come to me for help figuring out what's next in their career.
Most
people are not in jobs that they planned and studied for. As a matter of fact, it's pretty clear that many people are in careers that just
"happened." They started working at a job thinking it was going to be something they'd do until they decided what they really wanted to get
involved in, and then they just stayed around until it became a kind of career.
In other cases, individuals are in jobs or
professions based on the guidance or encouragement of other people in their lives. Perhaps their parents always wanted a doctor in the family. Maybe
their boyfriend or wife kept telling them they were capable of "better" things and needed to get moving on their career. My point is this:
Regardless of how they got to where they are now, it wasn't, for most of the population, a well thought-out plan that was skilfully executed.
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12.09.2007Coming Zune
It seems Microsoft has
published a little teaser site
just to get Zune enthusiasts
pumped. But this is no
ordinary site...
Most teaser sites usually
contain information on certain
unknown facts about the
product in the form of either
short video clips or blurred
images just to, well,
"tease" eager consumers. It
seems Microsoft has chosen a
different path, and we're not
quite sure how to explain it
so you will just have to see
for your self...
The site contains two
completely unpredictable and
random video clips that have
absolutely nothing to do about
the Zune besides the fact that
the logo makes an appearance
towards the end. Just watch
and see...
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18.09.2006TOP 10 Reasons to choose PicaJet Photo Manager
PicaJet burst on to the
digital image management
market in 2001 and quickly
became a popular tool with
professional photographers and
digital camera owners alike.
Since then, the program has
been translated into 20
languages. Despite a program
of continuous improvement, it
is still an easy-to-use and
convenient tool for the
management of large photo
collections. Here is a list of
the top 10 reasons why people
choose PicaJet:
1.
Support for Camera RAW
formats, including Adobe
DNG
2. Support for EXIF,
IPTC, XMP standards
3. A
unlimited hierarchical
category structure
4.
Automatically responds to
external file changes
5.
Manage files through several
albums
6. Organizing
offline archive
7.
Search and sort through EXIF
fields
8. Safe editing of
images
9. Automatically
upload images to Flickr.com or
Fotki.com
10. Slideshow
with Hollywood effects
To get more detailed
information about these
feature please follow this
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16.10.2006The Vista wow becomes a whisper
I wasn’t
a big fan of the “Wow” campaign around Windows Vista. But its
newest incarnation
“100
Reasons Why Everyone’s So Speechless” might be even worse.
The new site lists 100 reasons users should take a
closer look at Windows Vista. No. 1 is “It makes using your PC a breeze.” No. 100 is “Because your network is the backbone of your
business (Network Diagnostics and Troubleshooting).”
Seeing Windows Vista for the first time may leave you searching for words.
Many people just say ‘Wow.’ Here are 100 reasons why,” the site says.
When Microsoft launched Windows Vista in
January, execs knew they needed a succinct way to explain why users should upgrade to the new OS. Not a list of 50 reasons. But something that would
roll off the tongue of salesclerks and PC makers in a 30-second pitch.
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22.10.200710 signs that you aren't cut out to be a developer
Programmers make big bucks. Software developers dress casual every day of the week. Anyone can teach themselves to be a programmer. These are just a
few of the reasons why people say they want to become a developer. Unfortunately, the job market is littered with people who may have had the raw
intelligence or maybe even the knowledge, but not the right attitude or personality to become a good programmer. Here are a few things to consider
when deciding whether you should become a software developer.
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30.10.2007Real World DirectX 10 Performance: It Ain't Pretty
With the first three DX10
games out there in the wild,
we wanted to take a close look
at what we can expect from the
first generation of titles
built around the new API.
When it was drafted,
DirectX 10 promised to once
again change the way
developers approach real-time
3D graphics programming. Not
only would graphics hardware
be capable of executing short
custom programs (called
shaders) on vertices and
fragments (pixels), but
developers would be able to
move much more high-level
polygon work to the GPU
through geometry shaders.
Pulling polygon level
manipulation off the CPU opens
up a whole host of
possibilities to the
developer.
With
adequate performance, many of
the geometric details
simulated through other
techniques could be applied in
simple, straightforward ways
involving less overhead.
Techniques like normal
mapping, parallax occlusion
mapping, and many others exist
solely for generating the
illusion of additional
geometry. Ever wonder why a
face can be incredibly
detailed while the silhouette
of the same head looks more
like a stop sign than a melon?
This is because modern
real-time 3D relies on low
polygon models augmented with
pixel level "tricks" to make
up for it.
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05.07.2007Six reasons Microsoft will continue to lose market share
Microsoft has positioned itself at the top, a top that is targeted by hundreds if not thousands of companies. They have spread themselves from their
core identities and they are opening themselves up for a loss of market share. For this article market share is defined as a broad term where
Microsoft will lose users from its user base to its competitors. Reason #6: The Juggernaut Microsoft has always been viewed as the corporate
beast that it is. It's always easier to degrade those that are on top than those who are up and coming. Microsoft is in a position of corporate
and personal dominance.
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22.11.2008Building an app that uses Office documents? Win an Xbox!
James Senior: If you're a partner or company developing an application that does stuff with Office documents - saving, loading, storing - whatever,
then you might want to consider building it with OpenXML built in. Why would you do this? Two reasons really.
- We're running
a competition to find the best apps that utilise Open XML. If we think you've got what it takes, you'll win an Xbox 360 Elite. We've got 10 of
them to give away so if you think your dev teams deserve some wind-down time after they've bee cutting the code and burning the midnight oil - this
might be the thing to make you their favourite boss!
Enter the competition here!
- Aside from the Xbox there are some great business reasons why
you would add this functionality to your app. In fact, if you've implemented features that use WordML you've done most of the hard work already!
Benefits to using OpenXML include...
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14.12.2007Microsoft Partners Get Their Due, But Do You?
Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner Conference kicks off this week and it's going to be, big, Big, BIG.
During the event,
Microsoft typically shows its partners love, and this year will only differ in the amount of love. Microsoft could and perhaps should call 2008 "Year
of the Partner." At no other time in its history has Microsoft offered partners more reasons to get exited or more reasons to worry (more on
worrisome stuff in a few paragraphs).
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07.07.200850 Reasons to switch from Windows to OS X?
Or, a lost sheep’s ongoing struggle to stay relevant in this internet age. Now don't get me wrong, I have always had quite a lot of respect
for Chris Pirillo, but something happened when Microsoft talked up Longhorn and eventually shipped Vista. Chris was enraged most of the time because
the promise of "Longhorn 2003" never happened, and I think he probably feels that Microsoft cheated themselves, and him out of a worthwhile upgrade.
Ever since, he hasn't involved himself in Microsoft (lab) events and has become quite outspoken against Windows Vista.
From
John's AbsoluteVista Blog: In a post last week, on St. Valentine’s Day no less, Chris Pirillo states his
50 reasons to switch
from Windows (any version?) to OS X.
After getting past his preamble about neutrality, he delivers his thoughts. Actually, we are
supposed to take his thoughts as neutral since it is not a Windows bash. Furthermore, since in his opening statements he declared his relationships
with some sponsors, we should take the product plugs as gospel. Feel free to ingest a grain/several grains of salt with his recommendations.
I have taken it upon myself to provide a public service by attempting to debunk some of the outright errors, factual errors, product plugs, and
gross misconceptions in his beliefs.
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19.02.2008Analysis: Ten reasons why discs won't die
Well, all the cards are pretty much on the table now at CES 2008, and it's time to start looking at what it all means...
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09.01.2008Whitehurst Takes Over as New Red Hat CEO
Red Hat President and CEO Matthew Szulik announced today on his blog that he would be stepping down from his leadership roles in the Linux vendor.
" After almost a decade of leading Red Hat, I have decided to transition my CEO and President role for the personal reasons I have already
discussed. " According to the AP, these personal reasons are based mainly on serious health issues within his family. However, Szulik won't
completely leave the company: " It’s my privilege to continue serving this great company in the role of Chairman of the Board. "
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21.12.2007Everything you always wanted to know about Google...
"Everything you always wanted to know about Google, but were afraid to ask" was the title of this very interesting 34-slide presentation on Google
prepared by FaberNovel, a french consulting firm. It is hard to realize the real nature of this just 10 years old giant given the number of services
it has continuously released, updated (and sometimes shut down) or acquired. The presentation gives a great overview of the company's overall
strategy and the reasons it has become what it is today.
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