Windows Vista, Office 2007, Exchange 2007 Business Launch
While it's not the retail launch date, today is the official business launch for the next generation of Microsoft's Windows operating system, Windows Vista.
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1.12.2006 Outlook 2007 users angry over Office 2007 HTML-e-mail changes
A quiet change Microsoft has made in the rendering engine used by Outlook 2007 is beginning to sink in among individuals who have gotten accustomed to having the Internet Explorer (IE) engine render HTML e-mail messages. And the reaction of many is one of anger and disbelief.
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13.1.2007 Windows Vista, 2007 Office System and Exchange Server 2007 Launched in The Netherlands
Today Microsoft launched Windows Vista, 2007 Office System and Exchange Server 2007 for Volume license businesses in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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29.11.2006 Microsoft Office 2007 to be released in 2007
Following on from the recent Windows Vista delays Microsoft has stated that it expects Microsoft Office 2007 to be available to businesses at year-end and OEM/Retail in early 2007.
Microsoft has a habbit of releasing products in one year but naming them a year ahead to keep them sounding up to date in the market.
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25.3.2006 Exchange 2007 RTMed
This morning, we signed off Exchange 2007 for release to you!
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8.12.2006 What Will 2007 Bring from Microsoft?
As Microsoft heads into 2007, which will be marked by the general availability of Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007 in late January, analysts weigh in with their predictions for the year.
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31.12.2006 2007: a world without Microsoft?
Here's a little thought experiment to take into the New Year. Not as difficult as Schrodinger's Cat, but thought provoking nevertheless. Imagine that you woke up tomorrow to a world without Microsoft.
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1.1.2007 Office 2007 activation
A lot of people are searching for some solutions, for example "How activate Office 2007?" or "How to crack Office 2007". I will prepare the most searching phrases to discuss.
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7.1.2007 CES 2007 in Pictures
With 2,700 exhibitors, filling 1.8 million net square feet of exhibit space, and over 140,000 attendees, CES is simply the largest consumer electronics show in the world.
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11.1.2007 AutoPatcher February 2007
AutoPatcher is a comprehensive collection of patches, addons and registry tweaks that give you peace of mind in the knowledge that your Windows system is up to date, even before you connect it to the Internet.
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21.2.2007 Office 2007 Crack
Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System will be released to the general public on January 29, 2007. However, both Microsoft products have been pirated extensively following their respective release to manufacturing.
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30.4.2007 More Office 2007 Demos
Here are download links to more Office 2007 applications Demos.
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10.5.2007 AutoPatcher Vista May 2007
This is a complete list of whats included in the English release of AutoPatcher Vista as of the May 2007 release. This Vista release can be applied in any Windows Vista release, independently of the language and the system (32 or 64 bit).
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14.5.2007 WinHEC 2007: Day 1
Today I saw some really cool stuff at WinHEC 2007. WinHEC truly "advances the platform" this year with the platform being Windows Vista and Windows Server.
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17.5.2007 WinHEC 2007: Day 2
On my second day at WinHEC I really wanted to make it a point to stop by the Expo Hall and take a closer look at all the really cool hardware.
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20.5.2007 WinPatrol 2007 v.12
As a MULTI PURPOSE SUPPORT UTILITY WinPatrol replaces multiple system utilities with its enhanced functionality. WinPatrol PLUS provides easy to understand descriptions of over 13,000 programs.
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2.8.2007 Ad-Aware 2007 7.0.1.6
With the ability to scan your RAM, Registry, hard drives, and external storage devices for known data-mining, advertising, and tracking components, Ad-Aware 2007 easily can clean your system, allowing you to maintain a higher degree of privacy while you surf the Web.
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6.8.2007 AutoPatcher August 2007
AutoPatcher is a comprehensive collection of patches, addons and registry tweaks that give you peace of mind in the knowledge that your Windows system is up to date, even before you connect it to the Internet.
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21.8.2007 Office 2007 SP2
Were pleased to announce that Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office system is expected to be released in the near future. Although we arent yet announcing the exact release date, it will fall between February and April of 2009.
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1.4.2009 Office 2007: Users Wary of Changes
While Microsoft faces a host of challenges in maintaining its market share numbers and persuading customers to upgrade to its 2007 Office System suite of products when released in the second half of this year, its competitors face an equally daunting task of winning users away from Office 2007 and growing their numbers.
Heading the list of challenges facing Microsoft is the fact that Office 2007 has a new user interface, which could require extensive staff retraining at a significant cost, as well as a new file format, which has the potential to create compatibility issues, analysts such as Joe Wilcox of Jupiter Research, told eWEEK.
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3.3.2006 SmartArt in Microsoft Office 2007
Jensen Harris discusses a new feature coming with the 2007 Microsoft Office System called SmartArt.
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21.5.2006 Microsoft MOM 2007 Beta 2 Now Available
Microsoft has just released Beta 2 of their systems management flagship System Center Operations Manager 2007 for public testing.
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6.6.2006 Public Beta of Exchange 2007
Microsoft Corp. today announced availability of the public betas of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and the new Forefront Security for Exchange Server.
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24.7.2006 Microsoft Exchange 2007, still on track
Exchange 2007 is still on track for RTM in the end of the year and global availability in Q1 2007.
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25.9.2006 Office 2007 to Go 'Gold' This Month
Microsoft is winding down the beta program for Office 2007 as it prepares for a release to manufacturing before the end of the month. On October 25, Microsoft will close its Office Preview site and stop allowing downloads of the beta.
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9.10.2006 Virtual PC 2007 now available on Connect
Virtual PC 2007 includes support for virtualization technology from Intel and AMD. By default, hardware-assisted virtualization is enabled if the feature is enabled on the physical computer.
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12.10.2006 Office 2007 RTM download
The 2007 Microsoft Office System, also known as Microsoft Office 2007, is the most recent version of its productivity suite.
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12.11.2006 Microsoft Office 2007 - Review
Releases of Microsoft Office over the past 6 years have been considered evolutionary upgrades, delivering new features with each new version making life a bit easier for authors of Office documents.
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16.11.2006 Office 2007 'Stun Switch' Nothing New
There doesn't seem to be as much confusion over what this thing does as over what to call it: With a name that sounds straight out of "1984," what exactly is Reduced Functionality Mode (RFM) in Office 2007?
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21.11.2006 Microsoft XML Notepad 2007
XML Notepad 2007 provides a simple intuitive user interface for browsing and editing XML documents.
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22.11.2006eJamming Audiio P2P music collaboration launches beta 14
At CES 2008,
Intel's Paul Otellini used eJamming Audiio, BigStage, and the band Smashmouth to show off how a
group of musicians located on various corners of the globe could get together via P2P and play live in a virtual environment.
BetaNews tested
the eJamming Audiio software last year and found that it was suitable for recording and collaborating with others in an voip-enhanced environment, but
playing instruments live had too many latency issues to be feasible. In using MIDI drums, a guitar and bass in three different locations in the United
States, each musician found they had to get accustomed to latency in their own signal, and then the latency of the others as well. In the end, it was
nearly impossible to play live.
Today, The site has launched Beta 14, which includes a near zero latency "Jam Mode" as the default.
The team says a user's own instrument will now play back with nearly no delay, and audio streams from other musicians will be synched together to
make live collaboration easier. The site is still accepting new beta testers, and users will have to download the eJamming P2P client in order to
start playing...
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31.01.2009Private network for online gaming bypasses Internet bottlenecks
A Missouri startup called
GameRail
feels the pain of
latency-challenged online
video gamers, and has
developed a private network
that routes game traffic from
PCs to about 10,000 servers
hosted by online gaming
companies. Essentially, it
allows online gamers to bypass
the Internet, the company
claims.
For players of
first-person shooter games,
GameRails target market, the
higher the latency the slower
the bullets and you cant dodge
out of the way, says John
Alden, vice president of
business development. With
lower latency, you can shoot
better, faster, and react
faster.
Politicos such as Hillary
Clinton and her crusaders
against violence in video
games will be horrified. But
at $11.99 per month, with a
free 30-day trial, players of
Counter-Strike and other
online shooters might be
tempted to give it a try.
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18.08.2007New "Network Direct" RDMA Interface Available with Windows Server 2008
Phil Pennington: Windows HPC Server 2008 introduces a new low-latency RDMA network API known as "Network Direct". This RDMA interface in
addition to and distinct from the existing "Winsock Direct" interface. The Network Direct interface introduces several advantages over
Winsock Direct including no dependency on the Winsock stack and much lower latency metrics. MS MPI is being developed to take advantage of this
new interface.
This means that Infiniband vendors, for instance, will need to provide HCA Network Direct providers in
addition to (or perhaps instead of) the Winsock Direct providers published previously. Consequently, development is underway by both Microsoft
and partners to enable full support for the entire network stack.
For programmers, the Network Direct API provides a model
similar to the User Mode Driver Framework (UMDF). MS MPI will be the first user-mode application to leverage Network Direct.
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15.12.2007RS690T to have dedicated graphics RAM
IN ORDER TO IMPROVE the
performance of the integrated
X700 graphics on the RS690T
chipset, we can reveal that
ATI have decided to add the
option of a local frame buffer
to their north bridge.
This is mainly to get
around a major limitation of
the K8 platform: lower memory
latency to the CPU comes at
the expense of higher memory
latency to the integrated GPU
on the north bridge. Instead
of talking to the RAM
directly, as on an Intel GMCH,
AMD chipsets must look over
the HT bus to the memory
controller on the CPU, which
can badly decrease performance
of integrated graphics. Which
aren't exactly the best
performing devices in the
world anyway.
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07.12.2006Windows 2003 KB: Slow network communication from Vista RTM (6000) to Windows 2003 SP2
Brad Rutkowski: This was one issue I worked on for quite some time a few months ago. We found that Vista clients were taking forever to download
group policies from domain controllers in the regions while Vista SP1 and XP clients did not see the issue. If the local DC was running LH or Windows
2003 SP1, we didn't see any issue. If the server was running Windows 2003 SP2 though and had a certain type of hardware we would see the latency.
Based on customer reports, Windows Dev learned of more widespread devices in the network that dont understand greater window
scale factors. So, they improved the heuristics in SP1 for when to limit or disable auto-tuning, which is why we only saw in in Vista RTM and not
SP1.
The bug is in Windows 2003 SP2 and the details can be found here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947773 So if you find that you have vista clients experiencing network
latency when hitting a Windows 2003 SP2 server (File server, DC, Exchange, etc) then you should look into this hotfix.
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31.01.2008Startup FastSoft Prepares App Accelerator
A new startup is moving to
elbow its way into the
competitive WAN optimization
and application acceleration
market with a new technique
for speeding the transfer of
very large files across
TCP/IP.
FastSoft
will address the lag time in
transmitting large files using
industry-standard FTP with its
new Aria appliance. It is an
asymmetric device that
requires no companion
appliance or software client
at the other end of the
connection.
The
company's FastTCP technique,
originally developed at the
California Institute of
Technology, boosts performance
by addressing latency issues
associated with TCP, which was
developed over 20 years ago...
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30.06.2007Gear6 satiates hungry apps with 500GB RAM monster
Gear6 fits into that elite, blissful class of start-ups that have an ease to digest premise and infrastructure-friendly gear.
The
Silicon Valley-based firm ships a pair of caching appliances. These RAM-based boxes plug right into existing Ethernet networks and work as complements
to disk-based shared storage systems. As a result, applications that depend on accessing large data sets tend to enjoy dramatic performance
improvements by getting much of their information straight from the speedy appliances rather than always going out to disk.
Gear6
likes to focus its pitch around I/O operations per second or IOPS. Its base CACHEfx G200 appliance boasts 250,000 IOPS with 1.6GB/s of throughput and
less than half a millisecond of latency. This system takes up half a rack, has 250GB of capacity and costs $400,000 with the hardware, software and
support. The G400 appliance is twice the machine across the board.
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28.08.2007Researchers show off advanced network control technology
Researchers can adjust network infrastructure to boost bandwidth, optimize latency and save power using an experimental technology called OpenFlow.
OpenFlow is in the proof-of-concept stage but someday could be used in business networks to engineer traffic, says Nick McKeown, an
associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University.
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30.10.2008Disabling UAC Slows Vista's Bootup Time?
Blogger Chris123NT is reporting that the LUAFV driver, which controls UAC in Vista, can cause latency issues if the controversial feature is disabled.
Apparently, once UAC is disabled, a registry tweak that disables the driver in question also needs to be applied if the user wants to have solid boot
times back (improved boot times obviously vary from machine to machine). The problem occurs in both Vista RTM and the current beta build of Vista SP1
(6001.17042). This seems to me like yet another reason why it’s not a good idea to disable UAC, but I'm sure UAC haters will have a very
different perspective. It will be interesting to see how fast Microsoft will patch this problem, considering how important security is nowadays.
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15.12.2007SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool Beta Released
Bill Baer: After several months of work and very little sleep in between we are pleased to announce general availability of the
SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool (Beta).
The SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool (Beta) provides a wealth of helpful information when planning a SharePoint Products and
Technologies deployment; helping administrators, consultants, and IT Pros determine the potential required hardware investment(s) and topologies to
support and meet requirements for availability and performance or even the affect of introducing additonal offices with their own unique bandwidth and
latency constraints.
Using the SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool (Beta) you can build topology models, run simulations, and
generate reports that will help you evaluate and identify alternative solutions considering profile-based usage variations, content size and scope,
networking technology, and availability requirements.
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07.12.2007Buffalo Unveils DDR3 Memory Modules
Japanese subsidiary of Buffalo
Technology Inc., a leading
maker of advanced memory
modules and other electronics,
has announced the world's
first memory modules based on
DDR3 chips. While there are
several months to go till the
first DDR3-supporting
platforms will emerge on the
market, Buffalo wants to sell
them now, but at a price that
will allow only a few
enthusiasts to get them.
Buffalo will shortly start to
ship PC3-8500 memory modules
with 1066MHz clock-speed, CL7
latency setting and 1.5V
voltage settings. Even though
CL7 latency setting is
considerably higher compared
to CL5 of DDR2 at the same
frequency, improved pre-fetch
and other technical advantages
of DDR3 versus DDR2 may help
the new memory type to be as
fast or even faster compared
to the previous-gen one.
DDR3 memory is
designed to increase
performance and lower power
consumption of DDR2 memory
utilized today. The new memory
standard features relatively
low operating voltage of 1.5V,
8-bit pre-fetch architecture
(compared to 4-bit pre-fetch
buffer with DDR2), on-die
termination (ODT),
power-saving modes known as
PASR (partial array self
refresh) and ASR (auto self
refresh) and some other
capabilities. The memory will
be able to operate at up to
1600MHz, but in the exchange
for enhanced latencies of CAS
(column address strobe) 5 to
10 (compared to CAS 3-6 on
DDR2).
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27.04.2007Show your SysAdmins a little love today
Today marks the Eighth Annual
System Administrator
Appreciation Day so when you
don't notice any problems
with your e-mail, you
experience no network latency
or your application runs
smoothly, remember to thank
your closest IT professionals
and maybe even give them a
hug.
System Admin
Day, the last Friday in
July, began in 2000 when
Systems Administrator Ted
Kekatos, an IT manager for a
small start-up, decided it was
time he and his colleagues
received a bit of recognition
for keeping systems running
and workers productive.
"A SysAdmin
installed the routers, laid
the cables, configured the
networks, set up the
firewalls, and watched and
guided the traffic for each
hop of the network that runs
over copper, fiber-optic
glass, and even the air itself
to bring the Internet to your
computer. All to make sure the
Web page found its way from
the server to your computer,"
the home page of the annual
appreciation day reads.
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27.07.2007Audacity X gets 1.3.7 beta update
Download Audacity for Mac OS X from Fileforum
now.
Audacity X, the Mac version of the free open source audio editing and recording tool created by Google Dev
Dominic Mazzoni, quietly received a beta upgrade this morning, fixing a handful of bugs and including some new features. The new features include Full
Screen mode, a pitch shift/time scale slider effect, a WCAG2 accessibility testing function, improved latency correction and effect grouping...
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28.01.2009Office 2007 System now available on MSDN
MSDN Subscribers can now get
their hands on Office 2007
Professional, it has just been
made available.
Office Professional 2007
includes the following
Microsoft Office system
programs: Microsoft Office
Access 2007, Microsoft Office
Excel 2007, Microsoft Office
Outlook 2007 with Business
Contact Manager, Microsoft
Office PowerPoint 2007,
Microsoft Office Publisher
2007 and Microsoft Office Word
2007.
Additionally
the following applications
have been added under "Office
2007 Desktop Programs" and
they include: Office Groove
2007, Office InfoPath 2007,
Office OneNote 2007, Office
Project 2007 and Office Visio
2007.
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13.11.2006Microsoft Delays Office 2007
Slightly
Microsoft on Thursday
acknowledged that it was
pushing back Office 2007 from
its scheduled October release
to manufacturing. The company
also backed away from
promising a public launch in
January, simply saying Office
2007 would arrive in
"early 2007."..
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30.06.2006Nivio betas hosted Windows
Nivio has started beta tests
of a Windows XP hosted desktop
service, which it claims can
stream a desktop to any
compatible browser so you can
remotely access Windows apps
on Linux, a Mac, or even a
handheld device.
The company hopes to follow
the access-anywhere success of
GoogleMail, Yahoo! and the
like - but with access to real
desktop software as well as
email. It points out that a
hosted desktop also lets you
run the latest Windows apps
even if your own system is not
capable or compatible.
The Nivio service is
hosted on replicated
highly-available servers in
data centres in Switzerland
and New Delhi - Nivio is a
subsidiary of a Swiss company,
SMX iNet Global Services, and
is the brainchild of SMX
founder and former Imperial
College London student Sachin
Duggal. The company says that
all user data is stored under
Swiss data protection laws.
It lets you set up a
new Windows desktop or
replicate your existing one to
Nivio and access it there
afterwards, and can even print
to your local printer. Nivio
says it will run over as
little as 128kbit/s, but warns
that GPRS and 3G connections
can be problematic because of
their relatively high
latency.
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07.05.2007New server packs three Opterons
Opteron-based servers with
one, two, or four processors
are all over the place, but
server manufacturers rarely
experiment with more exotic
chip counts. However, the
folks at The Inquirer
have spotted
an Opteron server that
packs three chips, each with
two DIMM slots, on a custom
motherboard.
Said server is capable of
gobbling up to 16GB of RAM,
and it features two PCI
Express slots as well as two
4x Infiniband ports for
connectivity. The goal of a
three-way chip arrangement
isn't merely to serve as a
curiosity, though. The Inq
says a 3P Opteron system
should have lower cache
coherency latency than a
four-way one, because each of
the three chips is connected
directly to the other two.
Performance could therefore be
theoretically higher in some
workloads.
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11.08.2007Google Two Years Into Overhaul of GFS File System
As its ten-year-old file system — GFS — struggles to keep up with Gmail, YouTube, and other apps it was never designed to support, Google
is
brewing a replacement. According to the company, it's
two years into a GFS sequel designed specifically for customer-facing apps that require ultra
low latency.
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13.08.2009MS update for Outlook 2007 aims to fix performance issues
Microsoft Corporation has
released an update to Outlook
2007 designed to speed up the
communication software's
much-criticized sluggishness.
The 8.3 MB update should
accelerate the download of
messages from the Exchange
e-mail server and reduce
temporary freezes resulting
from deleting messages or
copying them from one folder
to another as well as allow
faster switching between
messages and enable faster
program startup. " I can't
say that this will 100 percent
solve the latency issues, but
users should see a big
improvement ," said
Jessica Arnold, Outlook's
program manager.
Arnold said that while
Microsoft had started hearing
about problems even before
Outlook's release to
businesses last November,
" until we had enough
users, the data wasn't
clear ." Arnold said
Microsoft will monitor the
effectiveness of this patch to
see what other performance
problems to address next, if
any. The problems are mostly
due to changes made under
Outlook's hood to accommodate
new features. For instance,
RSS newsfeeds are now
downloaded and stored in
users' local databases as
.PST files but because they
can quickly grow to several
gigabytes in size for some
users, they become very slow
to read or write to, Arnold
said. Meanwhile, Outlook
2007's indexing of e-mails,
while allowing for
near-instant search results,
can also cause delays even
when run in the background.
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15.04.2007How Google improved performance on Google Code
Jacob Moon, Google Developer Programs: If you're a frequent visitor to
code.google.com for product updates and reference materials for
Google APIs you're working with, you might have noticed that the page loading time (or page rendering time depending on how you see
it) has reduced in varying degrees in the past several weeks.
As you'll see below, we've made several changes to help reduce
user-perceived latency. This is not an exhaustive list of all improvements we've made recently, but these are the major ones we've made.
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