Apple lacks broad corporate strategy but still sees gains
Jan 25, 2009 in
Windows
Apple’s iPhones and Macs are gaining in the enterprise despite the company’s consumer focus.
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Microsoft makes Muglia server/tools president
Jan 25, 2009 in
Windows
Microsoft Monday promoted 21-year veteran Bob Muglia to president of its server and tools division, which pumps out 20% of the company’s total revenue.
CES 2009: Palm Pre leads gadget parade
Jan 25, 2009 in
Windows
Palm captured much of the Consumer Electronics Show buzz last week with its "Pre" touch-screen smartphone, complete with a new operating system. Microsoft tried to make noise, too, with CEO Steve Ballmer taking over for Bill Gates as the featured keynoter.
Windows Server 2008 R2 beta airs
Jan 25, 2009 in
Windows
Lost in the Windows 7 hype, Microsoft also released the beta of Windows Server 2008 R2, which is the companion to the client OS.
Microsoft brings fault tolerant technology to Windows
Jan 25, 2009 in
Windows
Microsoft teams with Marathon for Windows and Hyper-V High availability
Giving in to malware
Jan 25, 2009 in
Windows
Gibbs thought he’d fixed his problem with malware on a Windows XP system, but as it turns out, he just made the malware work better. Here’s the sad tale.
HyperSpace: More like impulse power
Jan 25, 2009 in
Windows
Phoenix Technologies’ HyperSpace lets you power up and power down your notebook more quickly.
Goodbye malware, hello micro-projector
Jan 25, 2009 in
Windows
After weeks of wrestling with malware on one of his Windows XP machines, Gibbs seems to have found a way to get rid of it . . . but he has no idea what was actually removed. Then he checks out a micro-projector. Busy, busy, busy.
Place your bets against malware
Jan 25, 2009 in
Windows
The response to my recent Gearhead and Backspin columns on malware has been amazing! And the range of suggestions has ranged from admit defeat, wipe the system, and start again to fight the good fight and don’t give in.
Microsoft Looks Beyond Vista with Windows 7
Jan 25, 2009 in
Windows
A first look at the first beta of Microsofts Windows 7 shows an operating system that takes advantages of features first introduced in the troubled Windows Vista while offering its own share of new enterprise features. Changes to the Start Menu and taskbar in Windows 7 are improvements over Vista and XP, but for some tasks, users will have to rely on third-party applications.
- Without a doubt, the first beta edition of the Windows 7 operation
system indicates that Microsoft is on the right track to shore up many
of the perceived flaws of Windows Vista.
While not a ground-breaking release Windows 7 is at its core very
similar to Windows Vista the new OS has adeptly tak…
