Microsoft will force PC makers to stop selling machines running XP by the end of this year, despite ongoing compatibility problems and demand for XP from users.
Demand for XP is particularly strong among small and medium-sized businesses, according to Dell, which announced it will continue offering some machines with XP pre-installed.
However, the clock is ticking, […]
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Google’s deal to buy DoubleClick for $3.1 billion is fascinating on a number of levels, and since I don’t have a single unifying interpretation of it all I’ll just dive right into the specifics.
There is, first of all, the price. At $3.1 billion, DoubleClick was acquired for an extraordinary ten times revenues, and the private […]
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Microsoft Corp., as part of its outreach to the open-source community, has released a new official Windows Media Player plug-in for Firefox 2.0 that resolves problems with the older one.
The plug-in enables Windows Media Player to work on Firefox for Windows Vista and resolves known issues with the old one, wrote Hank Janssen, the program […]
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Posted in Business, News, Tech News, General on Apr 17th, 2007
Intel Corp.’s Penryn processors will push desktop PCs to run 40 percent faster for gaming than the latest Intel Core 2 Extreme chip, giving details on the new chip design planned to reach markets in the second half of 2007.
Likewise, Penryn-powered workstations will deliver a 45 percent improvement for bandwidth-intensive tasks, versus today’s quad-core Intel […]
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