Yes, Windows Vista still has some life left in it yet. Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 gets its second service pack today. As usual, expect a roll-up of previous updates as well as some new features like Hyper-V integration…
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It’s not that we consider you lazy or anything like that but have you put any thought into your Service Pack 2 upgrade planning for the copies of Microsoft’s Vista and Windows Server 2008 installed on your work or home…
Google’s Chrome browser was launched with much fanfare into an extremely crowded browser market where the term “free” isn’t exactly new. It may have the largest search engine company in the western world backing it but the browser still…
Read more Google Chrome 2 Released, Faster Browsing for Free
If you thought you could go a day without reading about some new WIndows 7 feature, you were wrong. This time around an obscure feature has made its way into the OS and istartedsomething has a number of details…
Read more Windows 7 Virtual Wi-Fi is Going to be All Over Your Wireless Adapter, If You Want it
Intel’s Hyper-threading technology was supposed to improve a system’s performance by keeping the CPU fully stocked with work to do.In reality its performance benefits weren’t fully realized by previous operating systems and, in some cases, could cause performance to…
Read more Windows 7 to Leverage Hyper-threading Performance Enhancements
Microsoft’s DirectX 10 graphics API promised us all a much richer visual experience when titles and graphics cards made full use of the technology, given how long new features take to work into game development things didn’t turn out so…
Read more Microsoft's DirectX 11, More Gaming Joy?
OpenOffice.org has released the latest version of its popular, and free, office suite bringing it up to version 3.1. The most notable changes, aside from bug fixes, are performance improvements to their Calc spreadsheet application which according to them:Performance…
Read more OpenOffice.org 3.1 Released, Discovers Anti-Aliasing
Microsoft’s Windows 7 has been analyzed from every angle imaginable, given the free reign the developers have had in order to keep end-users in the loop, with all of their blogging and whatnot, it’s not surprising that you’ll know…
Read more Windows 7 RC1 Impressions: The Laptop
