Microsoft Looks to Holidays to Lift Vista's Prospects Peter Galli - eWEEK Wed Oct 24, 12:48 PM ET
Microsoft
and some of its partners are hoping that Vista will be the gift that fills their holiday stocking this year. This is the first year that notebooks and
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DigiPortal Enhances ChoiceMail One to Provide Full Windows Vista Compatibility 2 hours, 26 minutes ago DigiPortal Software Inc., a leading developer of anti-spam software, introduced enhancements to the company's ChoiceMail One anti-spam solution. The improvements include advanced solutions to detect and eliminate the latest email scams. ChoiceMail One installs on individual PC's. It is fully Windows Vista compatible and has a completely new, fresh user interface.
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DigiPortal Software Inc., a leading developer of anti-spam software, introduced enhancements to the company's ChoiceMail One anti-spam solution. The improvements include advanced solutions to detect and eliminate the latest email scams. ChoiceMail One installs on individual PC's. It is fully Windows Vista compatible and has a completely new, fresh user interface. Orlando, FL (
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Microsoft programmers have been building a new slimmed down Windows kernel called MinWin, which the next operating system, currently codenamed Windows 7, will be built upon. Unlike Vista's bloated demands on your PC, MinWin operates using just 25mb of disc space. Is this finally the end of system bloat?
Eric Traut, one of the head Operating System designers at Microsoft, recently demonstrated MinWin, an internal build of Windows 7 at the University of Illinois. The main talking point of the early demo was the fact that MinWin is far less demanding on your RAM and hard drive space, thus reducing the memory footprint of the future Windows OS.
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I-Mate Shows 'Ultimate' Windows Mobile Phones Sascha Segan - PC Magazine Mon Oct 22, 9:35 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO–Windows Mobile device maker i-Mate introduced the first two Windows Mobile 6 phones with the new HSUPA network technology as part of their four-phone portfolio at the
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Vista Is Still Plagued by Incompatibilities Tom Spring, PC World 1 hour, 25 minutes ago If you're running Vista and you need a multifunction printer,
Brother's MFC-5860CN
might seem like a great choice. After all, it's proudly sold as "Certified for Windows Vista."
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It seems more than a few people are fed up with Microsoft and are using the “blunder” that is Windows Vista to make the move over to a Mac. Pre-orders for OSX Leopard are at an all time high for a Mac operating system.
According to the
Mac Observer
, solution providers have noticed that pre-orders for Leopard are almost double that of Tiger when it was released.
Patrick Brown, CEO of Brown Computer Solutions which is a specialized solution provider for Apple products said, “
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Microsoft Shows Shaved-Down Kernel For Next Windows OS Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service Fri Oct 19, 9:00 AM ET The core code for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows OS is undergoing a rewrite to make it slimmer for use in a wide range of future products, including Windows 7, the OS that will succeed Vista.
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Microsoft shaves down kernel for Windows 7 Jeremy Kirk 1 hour, 39 minutes ago San Francisco (IDGNS) -
The core code for
Microsoft
's Windows OS is undergoing a rewrite to make it slimmer for use in a wide range of future products, including
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Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) — DSG International Plc, Europe's
second-biggest electronics retailer, said first-half profit fell
after its PC World stores cut prices to clear unsold Microsoft
Corp. software. The shares slid to a four-year low. Promotions reduced earnings by about 20 million pounds ($41
million) in the 24 weeks ended Oct. 13, the Hemel-Hempstead,
England-based retailer said today. Gross margin, a measure of
profitability, narrowed by about 2 percentage points at the U.K.
computer chain, and 0.6 percent across the company.
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