Minimem - Optimizing Windows Memory Usage
Running too many applications can cause computer performance to slow down or even crashed.
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24.8.2009 Minimem - Automatically Lower, Optimize or Reduce the Memory Usage for Any Running Program at Interval
Nowadays modern computers comes with high memory, from 1GB to 4GB and some even up to 8GB!
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6.8.2008 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 Windows 7 Drives RAM Ccapacity Explosion; Vista SP2 Usage Rising
Windows 7 will drive the average PC RAM capacity to 4GB in the next 18 months. That's the conclusion of researchers at the exo.performance.network who are monitoring the ramp-up to Windows 7's launch on October 22.
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23.9.2009 How Much Memory Does Vista Need?
With Windows Vista coming soon to a retail channel near you, one of the important questions to ask is, "How much memory does it really need?" There are the official minimum requirements of 512 MB, but we all know that minimum requirements don't translate to a great experience.
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23.1.2007 Usage Monitor 1.9.0.0
Usage Monitor lets you set watch limits on processes to know when your process is using too much. Watch limits can be placed on Memory Usage, GDI Objects, and USER Objects.
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23.2.2009 Vista “Out of Memory” errors
You just can’t seem to throw enough memory at Vista. There have been a number of issues that Vista users have reported relating to copying and moving data, especially large numbers of files.
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17.10.2007 Usage of second-hand computer
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 Mythbusting Windows Vista - Memory Management
Windows Vista is well on it's way and everyday more and more information is released. A lot of this information is misunderstood, regurgitated and out of the ashes many a myth has risen on Vista. I'd like to welcome a special guest author, Ned Gnitchel, who will be presenting a number of articles over the next little while debunking some of these myths. Ned works for a large software company and is a specialist in OS Internals, Directory Services and Collaboration.
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13.3.2006 Resolve Windows Vista Out of Memory Errors
Windows Vista "out of memory" errors are intimately connected with the way the operating system manages virtual address space.
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29.8.2007 Windows Vista Memory Tweak Guide
With every release of a new operating system come new demands and Windows Vista is by large no exception to this rule.
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23.10.2007 Vista SP1 Installed System Memory RAM
One of the aspects that Service Pack 1 changes for Windows Vista is the way that the operating system reports the amount of installed system memory.
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13.6.2008 Mozilla's browsers global usage share is still growing
The number one provider of real-time web analytics, today reported that Mozilla's browsers have a total global usage share of 11,51 percent. The total usage share of Mozilla increased 2.82 percent since April 2005. Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates the global browser market with a global usage share of 85,45 percent which is 1.18 percent less as at the end of April.
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Microsoft IE Usage Slips Since January; Firefox Gains
Usage of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser worldwide has slipped since January, while Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox gained by a nearly equal amount, a Web analytics firm said Friday.
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13.5.2006 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 How to Rearm and Extend Free Usage Activation Grace Period of Windows 7 to 120 Days
Windows 7 (SeVeN) is probably going to continue the trial software trend that starts with Windows Vista’s rearm, that user can install Windows 7 without any product key for free usage of 30 days as evaluation period.
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5.11.2008 How to Rearm and Extend Office 2010 Activation Grace Period for Free 180 Days Usage
Microsoft has implemented product activation scheme named Office Protection Platformm (OPP) that similar with Windows Product Activation (WPA) and Software Protection Platform (SPP) for Windows Vista and Windows Activation Technologies (WAT) Windows 7 in Microsoft Office 2010, where all copy of Office 2010 installed has to be activated, with 30 days activation grace period.
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3.9.2009 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 Windows 7 Non-Uniform Memory Access Architectures
Windows 7 will be able to take advantage not only of faster CPUs, but of multiple processors on a single chip. The 64-bit edition of the operating system in particular will be able to support over 64 Logical Processors per machine.
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28.12.2008 Release Unused Memory with VC RamCleaner
One of the main factors that causes computer performance slowness could be due to memory leak whereby memory is not being released properly after it was used.
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13.10.2009 Kernel Memory Space Analyzer Version 8.1 and guide
Microsoft Support Professionals Toolkit for Windows. The Kernel Memory Space Analyzer is a tool to help expert debugging engineers analyze Windows crash dump files.
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31.8.2006 Samsung develops new graphics memory speed limit
Samsung is getting ready to produce extremely fast memory chips to be used on future graphics cards.
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25.2.2007 Xbox Gets Bigger Live Games, Memory Card
Microsoft plans to allow Xbox Live Arcade games to use more space, announcing it had increased the official size limit from 50 to 150 megabytes. In addition, the company also announced a larger memory card with a capacity of 512MB.
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5.3.2007 Intel moves closer to flash memory replacement
Intel has been tinkering with a concept of a phase change memory device chip for nearly 30 years.
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18.4.2007 eBoostr - Boost Windows XP with Flash Memory
MDO Ltd. announces the release of eBoostr, a complete replacement for Microsoft ReadyBoost technology for Windows XP. Upgrade the performance of your PC without upgrading its components. Get ReadyBoost-like technology in Windows XP.
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14.11.2007 Free Microsoft Windows Memory Diagnostic Utility
Windows Memory Diagnostic is a free utility available for download from Microsoft designed to sniff out flaws in a machine's RAM modules.
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28.8.2008 How To Remove and Disable Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool
Windows 7 and Windows Vista comes with a memory diagnostic utility named as Windows Memory Diagnostic. Windows Memory Diagnostic is an utility that capable of scan, check and diagnose computer’s memory subsystem including physical RAM modules or sticks.
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5.10.2009 Microsoft announces 512MB Xbox 360 Memory Unit
t's about time Microsoft announced that 512MB Memory Unit, which will land at $49 and at the outset come preloaded with Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved (huzzah!).
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5.3.2007 Memory Prices Set to Hit the Bottom in the 2H '07
After tumbling for more than four consecutive months, prices on dynamic random access memory (DRAM) may sustain rapid decrease in the coming months, causing memory chip makers to continue losing money.
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26.4.2007Memory Usage of Chrome, Firefox 3.5, et al.
This experiment graphs the
memory usage of Chrome and Firefox 3.5 (along with Safari and Opera)
over a series of 150 Web page loads using an automated script. Firefox 3.5 shows the lowest memory usage in all categories, including average memory
usage, maximum memory usage, and final memory usage. Chrome uses over 1 GB of memory due to its process architecture. Safari 4 and Opera show memory
usage degradation over time, while Chrome and Firefox 3.5 are more reliable in freeing memory to the OS.
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21.06.2009Windows Vista and Mac OSX see surge in consumer use
While businesses and corporate entities may have little interest in using either Vista or Mac OSX, both are gaining popularity and market share but
only in the area related to home or home office use which is both good and bad.
Its good in the fact that Vista now has a 10%
market share in computers that are connected to the Internet, its bad that corporations are either not going to deploy Vista or have delayed
deployments so much that by the time it comes around again, Windows 7 may be out.
Mac OSX now has something in the area of a 7%
market share, Mac use has seen excellent growth over the past year but has not been without its
share of problems. Large corporations would never deploy OSX on a wide scale so that is not a concern there.
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03.12.2007On Vista, OSX and security researchers
Robert Hensing: So I made an interesting observation at Cansec last week. By day 3 I realized that I was the
sole
presenter running Vista. Hell I may have been the sole *attendee* running Vista. In fact if I had to break out the presenter laptop
OS's it would go something like this:
- 50% OSX
- 34% Windows XP
- 15% random Linux distros
- 1%
Vista (me)
If you add attendees to the mix the Windows XP numbers go up a bit and the OSX numbers may go down (i.e. it may
be 40% OSX / 40% XP).
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02.04.2008Comparing Browsers' Memory Usage
The resource usage of browsers is an important aspect in modern-day computing, because the browser is taking on an ever more important role in
day-to-day computing tasks. Hence, it may come as no surprise that many complaints regarding browsers are not about rendering speed or rendering
quality, but about resource usage. Dot Net Perls ran an
interesting benchmark on
Windows Vista SP1, comparing 5 browsers to each other.
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25.06.2008Mac OSX upgrade problems
Apple released a statement warning users upgrading from Leopard, about the newest available upgrade for Mac OSX to 10.5.6. The problem occurs from an
incomplete software update getting into the update process that can cause Mac OSX to cause errors during the "Configuring Installation" window
process. Apple recommends users, if they haven't already, to force the software update process to quit the download, remove the partial update
from your library and re-download the update. This problem is also been found in the standalone update from Apple's web site, and the combo
update. If users still faced with problems updating their Mac OSX machine, they are encouraged to contact Apple with related issues.
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19.12.2008Inside the Improved Firefox 3 Memory Manager
Mozilla software engineer Stuart Parmenter explains the new and improved inner workings of the Firefox 3 memory manager and what was involved in the
quest of decreasing the browser's memory load. Not simply all about fixing memory leaks, it involved solving memory fragmentation issues as well,
as Windows and most other operating system allocates memory in blocks and may not "see" small enough fragments of memory as usable in practice.
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12.03.2008Firefox Passes 10 Percent
Usage Share
Browser market share
statistics from Web analytics
firm OneStat.com indicate that
usage of Mozilla Firefox has
surpassed the 10 percent
milestone, reaching 11.51
percent globally in its most
recent survey released
Wednesday. In Canada, Firefox
usage reportedly neared a
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03.11.2005Help Find Memory Leaks in Firefox
If youre a Firefox enthusiast, the Mozilla community is currently looking for additional volunteers to help reduce memory usage and fix any memory
leaks in the browser. If youre not a programmer, Firefox programmer
Jesse Ruderman says you can still
help:
śIf youre a Firefox user, an easy way to help is to browse with a trunk nightly build wrapped in a script that calls leak-gauge.pl when
Firefox exits. If it reports that documents or windows leaked, try to figure out how to reproduce the leak and then file a bug report.ť
The
goal of the project is to reduce the memory usage in Firefox 3. On his blog, Ruderman details a number of leaks that have already been identified and
fixed.
For more info on Firefox 3, check out the projects
wiki
page at Mozilla.
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22.09.2007Pushing the Limits of Windows: Physical Memory
Mark Russinovich: This is the first blog post in a series I'll write over the coming months called Pushing the Limits of Windows that describes how
Windows and applications use a particular resource, the licensing and implementation-derived limits of the resource, how to measure the resources
usage, and how to diagnose leaks.
To be able to manage your Windows systems effectively you need to understand how Windows
manages physical resources, such as CPUs and memory, as well as logical resources, such as virtual memory, handles, and window manager objects.
Knowing the limits of those resources and how to track their usage enables you to attribute resource usage to the applications that consume them,
effectively size a system for a particular workload, and identify applications that leak resources.
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22.07.2008Apple strikes again to halt iPhone jailbreaking
Apple's latest update to OSX, 10.5.6, includes an impressive list of performance and bug fixes but hidden amongst the latest and greatest is that
10.5.6 disables the Pwnage tool, making you unable to jailbreak or unlock your iPhone or iPod Touch with Mac OSX. The update prevents jailbreaking by
disabling the software at the OS level. Apple is stopping 10.5.6 Mac's from recognizing the device in DFU (device firmware update) mode by using
new code that affects the USB ports on Apple computers at the driver level and how they interact with the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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16.12.2008Windows Vista Memory Tweak Guide
With every release of a new operating system come new demands and Windows Vista is by large no exception to this rule.
There are several
relevant components to the Windows memory subsystem. In this guide we will put special emphasis on the hard drive, processor and RAM, taking you
through a variety of settings to optimally configure these and hopefully end up with an overall smoother running system.
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23.10.2007Microsoft denies Sony's Vista hardware claims
Microsoft has denied Sony's
claim that the current release
of Vista supports neither
Intel's Turbo Memory
technology nor hybrid hard
drives.
The spat
between the companies arose
after Sony revealed to
ZDNet.co.uk that it would not
include Turbo Memory an
embedded flash memory module
formerly known by its code
name Robson in this summer's
Vaio notebooks because Vista
will not allow the benefits of
Turbo Memory to be utilised
until Service Pack 1 (SP1) of
the operating system is
released later this year.
Turbo Memory is an
optional component of Intel's
Centrino Pro/Duo platform
(previously known as Santa
Rosa), which makes use of
Vista features such as
ReadyBoost and ReadyDrive.
These features use
non-volatile "third-stage"
memory alongside a computer's
RAM and traditional hard drive
to boost performance and
start-up time. Most
manufacturers are ready to
release Centrino Pro notebooks
that include Turbo Memory,
although HP has turned it down
due to worries over cost
efficiency and the limitations
it places on users who want to
use external flash memory to
boost performance...
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07.06.2007Changes afoot in Vista SP1 RC0/Windows 2008 RC0 kernel memory dumps
With the advent of Windows Vista there are changes made in how the operating system determines if it can take a kernel memory dump or not. Starting
in Vista the amount of memory allocated for kernel mode could vary dynamically. If the pagefile is not big enough, switching to minidump at dump time
cant be done easily. So the dump stack initialization is happening at the time of boot where this check for the pagefile size is done.
What does this mean? It means if you don't have a pagefile as large as physical memory at boot, and your system is configured for a kernel
dump, you'll end up getting a minidump. If you permit me to opine, this makes sense in the client space where a valid dump is more critical than a
corrupted kernel dump, as the results usually would get uploaded to Microsoft via WERCON or another mechanism. If further triage is needed MSFT could
contact you with the ability to setup a kernel capture.
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16.10.2007Six 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. There are 6 reasons
why we will never see Apple take more than a third of the market share. For the sake of this article, mainstream will be referred to as greater than
33% of all computers.
Reason #6: The corporate world won't adopt OSX. Look around your office, more than likely you're looking
at a Windows based environment. While it's true that not all companies run Windows, it is safe to say that the majority do in some form. Why
wont corporations switch? Its simple, companies invest millions of dollars to keep up a Windows based infrastructure. The only thing costlier than
maintaining thousands of computers is to replace them all, all with OSX.
If we can't convert our companies to OSX then we stand little
chance in convincing institutions of higher education to do the same. The idea is based on a waterfall principle that we need a major change on one
front to affect the rest. The problem is that the world revolves around money and it costs money to replace current infrastructures with OSX. While
corporations are not the only user of computers they have a massive trickle down effect. The average person can pick up and use a Windows computer
without a problem no matter what version they use; it's a 'comfortable' operating system. The same can not be said about OSX, while it
may be easy to use, not nearly as many people have used OSX as compared to Windows. If our corporations use Windows our schools will teach upon it,
how many people have taken a Windows based course before?
Reason #5: Software. Let's take a simple look at the available software
titles out there for each platform. Regardless of the topic Windows based programs dwarf the OSX competition with ease. If your looking for a
program to do a certain task you will, without a doubt, have more options on Windows PC. If you're a hardcore gamer there is no option but to
have a copy of Windows at your disposal if you care to keep up on the most current titles.
If you're into business software the
options for OSX are dismal at best. While it's unfortunate that Microsoft commands so much power but the latest versions of Microsoft Office
always come out on Windows before OSX. While not a deal breaker for the home user it can be for reason #5.
Reason #4: Apples Image.
Apple has built the image that it is modern and un-Microsoft. While this is working out great for Apple in the short term it also limits its user
base. Take a look at any OSX vs Vista advertisement. It's always the cool kid making fun of the suit Vista. While this is great for the college
student looking to get a computer it doesn't work so well with mom and dad who very well may see themselves as a 'suit' in that picture.
Look around your dinner table and more than likely your father or mother is a suit at work. Professionalism is key to many adults and Apple has
steered itself away from be the professional option. Good for poor college kids not so good for the hard working suit.
Reason #3: OSX is
a closed platform. Want to build a custom computer with OSX; don't even try (legally). Apple has limited the configurations that OSX can be
implemented on. This works well for Apple's business model but anyone who wants to construct a custom built computer is not able to use OSX
(legally). If you're trying to build the ultimate computer with bleeding edge technology for your need, OSX is not an option. Lock the platform
and you lock out consumers.
Reason #2: The Apple Tax. To get a computer running OSX you must buy a computer from Apple. Apple computers
have a higher cost than a traditional PC from Dell or HP. Also it has to be mentioned that there is no low-cost option. The cheapest option is the
Mac-mini which starts at $599.99. For someone looking to buy a budget PC, Apple is not an option.
Reason #1: Steve Jobs. To become
a major competitor you must remain strong for the foreseeable future. Many people don't like to buy into a product that doesn't have a long
life ahead of it. Regardless of how well OSX runs, how cool it looks, it can all be attributed back to Steve Jobs; he is the master of sales and
marketing. Much of Apple's recent success can be attributed to his skills. Steve Jobs will not live nor want to work forever. When Steve passes
the buck to the next person in line will his horde of followers accept this?
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13.11.2008Apple releases 31 Security Updates for Tiger & Leopard
Apple Incorporated has released 31 new security-related fixes for both Tiger and Leopard; most of them were geared toward Mac OS X 10.4 as 10.5 was
not always affected by the vulnerabilities. The flaws ranged from serious (meaning remote attackers could execute malicious code on an unpatched Mac)
to mild (visiting a certain website could crash a given application). Mac programs affected include Address Book, iChat, Mail, Safari, among others.
As usual, the updates in question can be downloaded via Software Update preferences, or downloaded directly from Apple’s website (links
below).
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18.12.2007Notebook Makers Moving to 4 GB Memory As Standard
Digitimes reports that first-tier notebook manufacturers are
increasing the standard
installed memory from the current 1 GB to 4GB. They claim the move is an attempt to shore up the costs of DRAM chips, which are currently
depressed because of a glut in market. The glut is supposedly due to
increased manufacturing capacity and
the slow adoption of Microsoft's Vista operating system. The proposed move is especially interesting, given that
32-bit Vista and XP cannot access 4 GB of memory. They have a
practical 3.1 — 3.3 GB limit. With Vista SP1 it seems that Microsoft has decided to fix the problem
by reporting the installed memory rather than the
available memory.
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22.12.2007Google shows off PowerMeter, monitor your utility usage
Google, in its continuous effort to help us all go green, has started to rollout Google PowerMeter. PowerMeter is a Google gadget that will help you
regulate your homes power usage. The idea is simple, if you can monitor and measure your own power usage then you will be able to help reduce your
utility bill by observing where you are wasting energy. Google has teamed up with a list of power providers that have begun installing new smart
meters that when paired with PowerMeter allow the user to observe their power usage.
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20.05.2009Microsoft: Fast start for Vista in businesses
Microsoft is predicting that
Windows Vista will be adopted
by companies at twice the
speed as its predecessor,
Windows XP.
Twelve
months after the release of
Vista, Microsoft expects that
usage share of the oft-delayed
operating system in businesses
will be double that of XP a
year after it shipped, said
Brad Goldberg, general manager
for Windows product management
at the software maker.
"Vista is built for
businesses," Goldberg said.
"We're giving businesses the
tools they need to get out of
the gate faster with
Vista...Our goal is to have
twice as fast deployment of
Vista than for any other
operating system."
Microsoft declined to give
its own figures on Windows
XP's usage percentages, and
instead referred to research
by IDC. According to the
analyst company, XP was
installed on about 10 percent
of enterprise PCs after a
year. That would put the goal
for Vista at 20 percent.
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01.10.2006Microsoft predicts Vista stampede
Software giant claims
businesses will rush to
upgrade to Vista, but analysts
paint a different picture
Microsoft is
predicting that Windows Vista
will be adopted by companies
twice as fast as its
predecessor, Windows XP.
Twelve months after
the release of Vista,
Microsoft expects that usage
share of the oft-delayed
operating system in businesses
will be double that of XP a
year after it shipped, said
Brad Goldberg, general manager
for Windows product management
at the software maker.
"Vista is built for
businesses," Goldberg said.
"We're giving businesses the
tools they need to get out of
the gate faster with Vista...
Our goal is to have twice as
fast deployment of Vista than
for any other operating
system."
Microsoft declined to give
its own figures on Windows
XP's usage percentages, and
instead referred to research
by IDC. According to the
analyst company, XP was
installed on about 10 percent
of enterprise PCs after a
year. That would put the goal
for Vista at 20 percent.
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02.10.2006Browser memory usage - the good, the bad, and the down right ugly!
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: So how much memory do modern web browsers consume when pushed hard? This was the question prompted by my
Firefox 3.0 a memory hog? post yesterday.
So how do the
browsers stack up against each other?
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