Windows 7 Unmasked
Infoworld.com took a deep look into the finally unveiled Windows 7 and tested it on several benchmarks:
- The view from inside
- Performance
- Visual cues and other hints
- Compatibility
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Companies Turn to New Tool to Measure Web 2.0
Large companies are starting to install upgraded Web analytics tools to summarize and examine data from their growing numbers of second-generation online applications.For years, enterprises have used traditional Web-analytics tools to simply measure page views and keep track of traffic on corporate Web sites.
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Microsoft Eyes Visual Studio Advancements
With the planned Visual Studio 2010 software development environment, Microsoft intends to offer a new editor for visually appealing applications. The WPF effort and other developer-related revelations will be aired Monday at the TechEd developers conference in Barcelona, Spain.
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Yahoo Has Improved BrowserPlus
Yahoo has improved its BrowserPlus technology for advanced Web applications and now lets other Web sites use it. BrowserPlus can be plugged into a person's Web browser to make Web-based applications work more like native desktop programs. The most important features are a better upload interface and the desktop notifications.
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Microsoft Discontinues Windows 3.x
Microsoft has just put an end to Windows 3.x. As of November 1, 2008 Microsoft has stopped issuing licences for Windows 3.x, which debuted in May 1990.
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Yahoo! Announces Termination of Services Agreement by Google
Yahoo! announced that Google has canceled the advertising services agreement. The company believes in the benefits of the agreement and is disappointed that Google has elected to withdraw from the agreement rather than defend it in court. Google notified Yahoo! of its refusal to move forward with implementation of the agreement following indication from the Department of Justice that it would seek to block it, despite Yahoo!'s proposed revisions to address the DOJ's concerns.
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Win7 vs. Vista; Boot Time Preformance Drag Race
Microsoft delivered a boot time drag race between Windows 7 pre-beta and Windows 7 on the opening day of the Windows Hardware Engeneering Conference in Los Angeles. The video features a real-time comparison between the startups of both Win 7 and Vista.
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Digital Politics - Engaging Voters Online
The 2008 Presidential election's brought a new battleground to the forefront of the political arena - online. The online activities of both Barack Obama and John McCain, and their UK counterparts, highlights the increasing reach and influence of online channels and seems to be setting a trend for elections to come.
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Microsoft: More Attacks on Applications, less on Windows
Microsoft announced his fifth Microsoft Security Intelligence Report. It's a deep look into the threat landscape based on data derived from hundreds of millions of computers worldwide. The report has been designed to help enable better protection from cybercriminals.
The research from the first half of 2008 shows that while Microsoft and others in the industry have made huge progress toward helping protect customers from malicious threats online, threats to business and consumers still continue to change.
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Microsoft Releases Visual Studio, .NET Betas
This week, the developers at the PDC(Professional Developer Conference) had the chance to take a first look at Visual Studio 10 and .NET Framework 4.0. Visual Studio 2008 has only been on the market for a few months but Microsoft has already started working on the new version.