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Oct 29 2008
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Microsoft PDC attendees get ‘the goods’

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft provided attendees of its Professional Developer Conference this week with a 160 GB drive full of bits and resources. The Windows 7 M3 pre-beta build and Windows Server 2008 R2 M3 pre-beta are on the drives. (The Windows 7 build attendees got is the September build 6801 that leaked out a month ago. The new taskbar and quite a bit of the other eye candy Microsoft showed off during the October 28 PDC keynote aren’t part of the pre-beta build.) What else is on those PDC drives? The UXEvangelist blog provides the full list of the PDC goods. A few of the goodies... View Full Article: Mary Jo Foley's Blog
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Oct 29 2008
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Athlon, Core 2 architectural efficiencies compared

If you go shopping for sub-$100 processors right now, you'll be faced with two main contenders: Core 2-based Intel chips and AMD Athlon X2s. The Athlons typically have higher clock speeds for the price, but their Intel rivals often perform better. Why? A good two years after the debut of the Core 2 Duo, Real World Technologies has put together an in-depth comparison of the Athlon and Core 2 designs. Rather than delve into the obscure architectural details of the two offerings, RWT used apps called VTune and CodeAnalyst to poke around under the hood and get hard numbers for things like instructions per clock, branch predictor accuracy, and how the chips handle their L1 and L2 caches. View Full Article: The Tech Report
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Oct 29 2008
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What’s new for audio in Windows 7?

Microsoft took the wraps off the next version of Windows Tuesday at its Professional Developers Conference, and the Web's abuzz with first impressions and previews--most of which are positive. It looks like Microsoft is making the right moves to counter some of the problems with Vista: application and hardware compatibility are top priorities, and most of the UI tweaks I've seen so far seem helpful rather than arbitrary, as many of the changes in Vista seemed to be. But the release of Windows 7 is still a year away, and there will no doubt be modifications between now and then. But forget the big picture...what's in store for digital audio in the next version of Windows? Here's a quick rundown of what in known based on the very early pre-beta shown ...
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Oct 29 2008
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Q&A: Ray Ozzie on Microsoft’s future, and how he’s different from Bill Gates

As the man who took over Bill Gates' job as Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie gets to figure out where the company will place its next big technological bets. And he has been putting lots of chips on the table this week. In an interview at the company's Professional Developers Conference here, Ozzie answered questions about Microsoft's new Windows Azure cloud computing platform, the next version of its flagship Windows PC operating system, and its plans to offer Web-based versions of its widely used Office programs -- all of which were unveiled over the past two days. View Full Article: Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
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Oct 29 2008
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Windows 7 DWM cuts memory consumption by 50%

If you didn’t think the performance benefits of using Aero Glass could get any better, then see this. At PDC 2008, Anantha Kancherla presented a session on “Windows 7: Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware” where he presented a mindblowing fact about the Windows 7 Desktop Window Manager. View Full Article: Long Zheng's Blog
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Oct 29 2008
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E-mail: Ballmer on Azure, Web-based Office

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent an e-mail out to customers this afternoon, with his thoughts on the company's recent announcements at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Here's the complete text... View Full Article: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Oct 29 2008
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Microsoft Study Reveals Small Business IT Sophistication

Microsoft Corp. today launched the results of a global study looking at how small businesses use and manage their IT, as well as their attitudes toward hosted IT services. The research highlighted that many small businesses struggle to compete with big businesses and are unsure of how to get access to higher-quality IT services that could help them. Government support is often widely used and well-received, but in some cases, it is thought to be too limited. Small businesses face numerous challenges with IT but are also seeing the benefits that mobile working and social networking can bring. View Full Article: Microsoft PressPass
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Oct 29 2008
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Microsoft Announces Data Visualization Platform

At the GEOINT 2008 Symposium this week, Microsoft Corp. continues to highlight its numerous contributions to the growing market for geospatial software offerings with the unveiling of Microsoft Single View Platform (SVP), a collaboration and data visualization platform that provides government agencies with solutions for one comprehensive geospatial view of critical data. Microsoft SVP provides a single, geographic view of complex information and data sets across multiple roles, locations and user interfaces, which can vastly improve agency communication, collaboration and decision-making, and significantly increase the success of government missions. View Full Article: Microsoft PressPass
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Oct 29 2008
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New Xbox 360 Experience hands-on and impressions

Engadget: Thanks to a special blessing from the folks in Redmond, we've had an opportunity to thoroughly give the rejiggered Xbox 360 Dash (AKA, the New Xbox Experience) a serious run through, and we've got the lowdown on the future of your gaming life. As you probably already know from the numerous posts we've done and generally available info (Microsoft has been pretty forthcoming with this stuff), the Xbox team has completely revamped the Dash experience, giving the system not only a visual overhaul, but trashing the underlying tech and rebuilding things from the ground up. The result is a beautiful, intuitive interface which loses almost nothing from previous versions while adding a considerable new feature set to the mix. Read on for our first impressions... View Full Article: Engadget
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Oct 29 2008
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Windows 7 Tablet PC Screen Shots

Rob Bushway @ GottaBeMobile.com: Several of us on the GottaBeMobile.com team are fortunate enough to be participating in the Windows 7 beta, and we’ve got some screen shots of some of the new Tablet PC features in Windows 7. Keep in mind, a lot of this might change between now and release. There will be more coming, so stay tuned. Warner will be filming an InkShow soon. Hit the Read More link to see the gallery of screen shots... View Full Article: GottaBeMobile.com
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