Windows 7 Migration Tool to Move From Windows XP to Windows 7
In past we had covered guide on upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7. Unfortunately there is no direct upgrade path from Windows Xp to Windows 7 and you have to use Windows Easy Transfer utility if you want to move your user and program files from XP to Windows 7.
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22.11.2009 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009 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 The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat Mitigation Guide
Well, Microsoft still puts effort in old Windows versions...
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31.3.2006 Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD more on Windows Update
Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. Its about time!
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20.11.2006 Windows XP Home No Longer Qualifies for Windows Vista Upgrades
Windows XP Home Edition no longer qualifies for Windows Vista Business Upgrade or Upgrade + SA through Volume Licensing.
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17.10.2007 Microsoft Offers a Complex Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Perspective
A new standard of security is an integer aspect of the evolution puzzle represented by the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
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3.11.2007 Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?
Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
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25.11.2007 Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP
If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the balance in Vista's favor.
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14.1.2008 Free Windows Vista Business and Windows XP SP2 on Parade
Free Windows... Not a concept you would expect from Microsoft. With a business strategy focused on proprietary software, the Redmond company is by all means at the opposite technology spectrum from open source and free software.
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9.3.2008 Microsoft Presents the Lost Comparison: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP
With both Windows XP and Windows Vista being available concomitantly on the market, Microsoft is doing nothing more than inviting the consumers to compare the two operating systems.
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20.4.2008 Windows Server 2008 = Windows Vista SP1 Minus the Pain
Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is essentially intimately connected with Windows Vista Service Pack 1, to the level in which the RTM version of Microsoft's latest server operating system features the
SP1 label
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6.5.2008 Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 - Latest Windows Platform from Microsoft
The latest Windows operating system is available for download as of June 16, 2008. And no, it's not a new release of Windows 7, nor the first taste of Windows 7 Server.
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16.6.2008 Free Windows for Supercomputers Available for Download - Windows HPC Server 2008
Microsoft made the latest iteration of its Windows operating system for supercomputers available as a free download.
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23.9.2008 How to Install Windows 7 or Windows Vista on Physical Machine Without DVD Media
A lot of Windows Vista and Windows 7 license has been sold media-less nowadays, where buyers only receive a piece of authenticated certificate with a genuine and legitimate product key printed on it.
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23.12.2008 Windows 7 beta testers find critical Windows Installer Bug
Mary Jo reports that a number of Windows 7 Beta testers have come across a bug that crashes the system randomly whenever they try to start a Windows Update or install anything using Microsoft's MSI installer.
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19.1.2009 AeroBar: Show Titlebar Text in Explorer Windows Under Windows Vista
Have you ever wondered why Explorer Windows don't show titles in Windows Vista?
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13.2.2009Macrovision's appeal for CE makers to stop bypassing the IPG
The channel behind the TV channels you watch could be the most lucrative new advertising platform since the advent of the Web...
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09.01.2009Spring Wireless bounces into Seattle
A Brazilian mobile-software company with an eye to worldwide expansion announced this week that it'll set up its US headquarters in downtown Seattle.
The advent of Spring Wireless could mean 35 new jobs for Rain City...
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04.02.2009LG feeds wrist watch talk wish
Is it that at any other CES, we'd all be chirping about the advent of a working, non-hideous wrist phone? Or are we all just too jaded to believe?
Either way, LG may have lost a perfectly reasonable wrist-mounted mobile phone in the stampede...
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14.01.2009What's New With Windows Firewall?
The Windows Firewall was first introduced with Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), and was later added to Windows Server 2003 as part of Service Pack 1
(SP1). The Windows Firewall was a big improvement over its predecessor, which had no built-in, host-based firewall at all. This initial release was
very basic and included only the most fundamental functionality. With the advent of Vista and Windows Server 2008, the Windows Firewall has been given
a substantial makeover and is now known as Windows Firewall with Advanced Security (WFAS). Keep reading for a description of the new features in WFAS
as well as a step-by-step configuration example.
Here is a list of some of the most important new features in WFAS...
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21.03.2008Half of 2008 a good year for smartphones, the other half not
With the advent of Apple's iPhone 3G, HTC's Android-based G1, and a lot of other smartphones, 2008 might look on the surface like a good year for
this particular genre of mobile device. But that's only a half-truth, says a report released today by the ABI Research analyst group...
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29.01.2009Securing Application Execution with Microsoft AppLocker
AppLocker is a new feature available in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 that helps to prevent the use of unknown or unwanted applications within
a network. Its functionality boasts both security and compliance benefits for a wide array of organizational environments.
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The desire to block particular applications from running on network computers is not new by any means, but the methods of doing so have continued to
evolve over time. In previous cases network administrators may have found this task best served by the use of third party software, however, the
advent of AppLocker in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 allows for application execution restriction on a very useful level. AppLocker is the next
evolution of Windows Software Restriction Policies...
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02.09.2009Changes 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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16.10.2007Microsoft: Vista service pack coming in '08
Now is the time and the time is now: let's talk about Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). Much has been made of what will or will not be included in
SP1 and when it will be released (some accurate, some otherwise). I'm here to set the story straight: we're in the process of developing and
deploying a Beta version of SP1. This post will describe for you what to expect from that effort and how you can be involved in the process.
First, a note on service packs. As you are aware, service packs are part of our traditional software lifecycle; they're something we do for most
major products as a commitment to continuous improvement. But, the servicing situation has changed with the advent of Windows Vista, as we no longer
rely solely on service packs as the main vehicle used to deploy system fixes and improvements. The Windows Update online service is one new way to
deliver many OS improvements. For example, yesterday in advance of SP1 we released via Windows Update two separate improvements to Windows Vista's
reliability and performance. We did this prior to SP1 in lieu of requiring customers to wait for these fixes to be rolled into a single service pack.
Beyond this, we improve the Windows Vista experience by continuing to work closely with software partners to ensure application compatibility. We
likewise align efforts with partners on the hardware side of the business to broaden the range of devices that work with Windows Vista and to
constantly improve device driver quality.
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29.08.2007Is Microsoft a danger to the environment?
As many commentators have alluded to in numerous articles for the past two decades Microsoft and Intel have a very special relationship often referred
to as the Wintel alliance. The question is in a world concerned with climate change and global warming can the world afford to allow the Wintel
alliance to continue?
It is no secret that crux of Wintel is to drive the sale of ever increasing Intel-based processing power
using ever more feature rich and hardware resources demanding Microsoft software - primarily the Windows operating system. As a result, for the past
two decades and in particular since 1995, successive iterations of Microsoft Windows have become increasing complex, more feature rich and above all
more demanding of computing resources.
In addition, the advent of the Internet, while it seemingly scared the life out of
Microsoft, has actually been a boon for both the software company and Intel. Through necessity, the Internet has spawned a software security industry
that consumes additional computing resources for Intel and provides Microsoft with fuel to develop its next more secure release.
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26.11.2007Beating the codebreakers with quantum cryptography
Quantum cryptography may be essentially solved, but getting the funky physics to work on disciplined computer networks is a whole new headache.
Cryptography is an arms race, but the finish line may be fast approaching. Up to now, each time the codemakers made a better
mousetrap, codebreakers breed a better mouse. But quantum cryptography theoretically could outpace the codebreakers and win the race. Forever.
Already the current state of the art in classical encryption, 128-bit RSA, can be cracked with enough raw, brute force computing
power available to organisations like the US National Security Agency. And the advent of quantum computing will make it even simpler. The gold
standard for secret communication will be truly dead.
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30.04.2008Google Invests in Cellular Tech
Femtocells, an emerging
technology for improving
cellular coverage in homes and
enterprises, have attracted
the interest of none other
than Google Inc.
The
search giant participated in a
US$25 million round of funding
for Ubiquisys Ltd., a
femtocells vendor based in
Swindon, U.K. Technology
venture funds Accel Partners,
Atlas Venture and Advent
Venture Partners LLP also
invested, Ubiquisys announced
Friday.
Femtocells,
named for an order of size in
physics that is smaller than
"pico" or "nano," are
cellular base stations for
individual homes or offices.
Mobile operators hope to sell
them to customers who will
install them and immediately
enjoy better coverage for data
and entertainment services.
Weak cellular signals indoors,
where most high-speed data
services are used, have
stunted the growth of those
lucrative offerings, according
to industry analysts.
Google invested in
Ubiquisys as part of efforts
to help people use the
Internet wherever they are,
with the richest possible
experience, spokesman
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22.07.2007Low-cost PCs blurring notebook categories
The advent of low-cost PCs has blurred notebook market segments, as evident in the widespread price cuts for notebooks in mainstream and entry-level
segments.
In the US market, retail prices for 15.4-inch notebooks from first-tier branded vendors have been cut US$200-300 as
vendors hope to spur customers to go for a second notebook. Of the major vendors, Acer and Compaq have already introduced 15.4-inch models priced
under US$500 in the US market while other major notebook vendors including Dell, Toshiba, Sony, Compaq, Gateway, Everex have also introduced 15.4-inch
notebooks priced under US$600.
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16.04.2008VMware Retorts to Microsoft Hyper-V Advent
No sooner had Microsoft announced the availability of the public beta for Hyper-V, its hypervisor-based server virtualization technology, than VMware
went on the attack, claiming its ESX Server is a comparable, but better, product.
"Hyper-V is Microsoft's hypervisor, while ESX
Server is ours. But I don't think you can really compare Microsoft's newly announced beta offering and our product, which has been available for
seven years," Bogomil Balkansky, VMware's senior director of product marketing, told eWEEK.
"Customers want stability,
maturity, robustness and resilience from their virtualization products and we have the benefit of having it proven in production all around the world
with customers running mission-critical applications on ESX Server," Balkansky said.
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14.12.2007Seagate: Vista OS requires 250GB to 1TB of storage
Looking to change computer storage from a commodity to competitive differentiator, hard drive manufacturer Seagate Technology LLC launched a new set
of tools today to help its channel partners change the way they take storage to market.
The vendor sees an increasing demand for
storage driven primarily by two trends: the increased storage demands of the Windows Vista operating system and the advent of the digital pack rat,
who stores ever-increasing amounts of songs, pictures and videos.
Consequently says Pete Steege, Seagate's senior marketing
manager, storage is playing an increasingly larger role for system builders.
"We're seeing a couple of trends in the market
adding up to real opportunity for solution providers that we're taking advantage of," said Steege.
The hard drive has gone from
an afterthought, says Steege, to the heart of the machine. Calling Vista the "poster child for storage" he says users need 250GB to 1TB of storage
to fully leverage the operating system. And with the need for backup, that becomes 500GB to 2TB. Seagate's offering in this higher-end space is the
Barracuda 7200.11, its new 1TB drive.
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25.09.2007SLI Under The Microscope: Vista vs. XP
Upon its release, it was expected that even the most ardent power users and enthusiasts were going to tread lightly at first with respect to adopting
Windows Vista as their primary OS. Though end users in this demographic are classically early adopters, in terms of new hardware technologies coming
to market, an operating system change brings with it a whole myriad of pitfalls, from backwards compatibility to stability and performance issues,
which are all understood to be "part of the deal" with any new OS. In reality, many folks migrate to a new OS platform over time, opting to dip
their toe carefully into the pool with less critical usage models, like running it on a backup machine or secondary notebook, for example, at least
initially.
Gamers, on the other hand, are perhaps a breed apart, in that many are risk takers, (should we say thrill-seekers
maybe?) willing to take it on the chin with their gaming rig in an effort to have the latest and greatest in both hardware and software technologies.
In short, a risky new OS move to Vista is especially tempting for gamers, with the advent of DirectX 10, which is only supported by Microsoft's new
OS.
However, our early findings were mixed with respect to Vista's gaming performance and certainly with a few games that had
a DX10 rendering mode, performance just wasn't up to par with Windows XP, which has years of ring-out and performance optimization behind it. This
all seemed logical but the view with Vista was even more bleak if you were running a pair of NVIDIA graphics cards in SLI mode. Performance in Vista
on this type of system, in either DX9 or DX10 mode just wasn't where it needed to be.
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26.09.2007Microsoft planning 60GB Xbox 360 Pro for spring?
Microsoft may at last upgrade its mid-tier Xbox 360 beyond 20GB of storage,
says a new rumor. Claiming to have
accurately predicted the
16GB iPhone, the reporter touts
sources who claim that Microsoft plans to replace the stock 20GB hard drive for the Xbox 360 Pro with a 60GB version. The upgraded console would come
before the end of Microsoft's financial year, which ends at the start of June. Reasons for the upgrade are not given, though the advent of the Xbox
Video Marketplace as well as the increasing size of demos and Xbox Live Arcade games are likely motivating factors.
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07.03.2008Group drafts virtual machine standard
Aiming to smooth the way for a new generation of software key to making best use of multi-core processors, a handful of top computing companies have
drafted an ad hoc standard for virtual machines. The Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) aims to automate the process of moving virtual machines between
computers.
Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, VMWare and XenSource developed the draft standard and formally submitted it
Monday (Sept. 10) to the Distributed Management Task Force. The
DMTF, which oversees a
variety of ad hoc computing standards, is expected to manage the process of finalizing the standard which could be finished by late next year.
Software to create independent virtual environments is on the rise in tandem with the advent of multi-core processors. The
virtualization software, managed by so-called hypervisors, aims to help make more efficient use of computing resources.
"The
problem we have today is virtual machines tend to be tied to a specific version of a specific hypervisor, so producing and distributing virtual
machines can be difficult," said Winston Bumpus, the president of the DMTF. "This standard is a way to simplify and automate that process," he
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10.09.2007In-Stat: Blu-ray will create more 'connected homes'
In-Stat released a study today that measured the penetration of permanently connected electronics devices in the consumer home. The analysis firm has
been doing these studies for years, and it always seems like the public lags behind what experts predicted. With the advent of 802.11b
in 2002, the group predicted that "You'll
mass-market smart home networks five years down the road." Things still aren't what they expected as it turns out, but video game consoles have
provided the best inroad so far.
Joyce Putscher, In-Stat analyst said, "The primary reasons that more devices are not connected to
home networks are: consumer awareness/knowledge, availability of network-capable CE products on retail shelves, prices of network-capable CE products,
competition with non-network-capable CE products (like docking stations), and lack of perceived need by some consumers."
In-Stat now
expects to see
real growth in home networking when consumers upgrade to connected Blu-ray players and start streaming movies. The group's
survey found that 64% of consumers are interested in watching Internet-based streaming video on their main television...
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04.02.2009NASA Develops World's Highest Resolution Visualization System
The power to visualize highly complex information in a way that's easier for the human mind to grasp is taking a giant leap forward with the advent
of NASA's new hyperwall-2 system unveiled today at Ames Research Center.
Developed by scientists and engineers in the NASA
Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames, the 128-screen hyperwall-2, capable of rendering one quarter billion pixel graphics, is the world's
highest resolution scientific visualization and data exploration environment. The new tool enables scientists to quickly explore datasets that
otherwise would take many years to analyze.
The 23-foot-wide by 10-foot tall liquid crystal display wall is being used to view,
analyze, and communicate results from NASA's high-fidelity modeling and simulation projects supporting the safety of new space exploration vehicle
designs, atmospheric re-entry analysis for the space shuttle, earthquakes, climate change, global weather and black hole collisions.
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27.06.2008AMD's Phenom processors dip under $200
When AMD launched its quad-core Phenom 9500 and 9600 processors in November, the company priced them at a respective $251 and $283—enough to
match the 9600 to Intel's Core 2 Quad Q6600. The 9600 wasn't a flawless opponent to the Q6600 to begin with, but with the advent of the TLB patch
(which AMD has advised motherboard makers to force on by default in their latest BIOSes), it is at a
significant performance disadvantage compared to Intel's cheapest quad-core offering.
Perhaps in light of this problem, pricing for Phenom chips seems to have quietly gone down at some online retailers. Newegg currently prices
the Phenom 9500 at
$199.99 and the
Phenom 9600 at
$245.99, while Mwave
lists respective prices of
$205 and
$245 for the same chips.
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