Archive for December 15th, 2008
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More questions over Microsoft profits
Will Microsoft warn Wall Street about lower-than-expected earnings? That’s the big question surrounding the company’s stock right now, particularly after Morgan Stanley lowered its quarterly and annual expectations for Microsoft’s revenue and profits this morning.
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When last we heard from the company, in October, it was projecting revenue of $17.3 billion to $17.8 billion in revenue [...] -
Sysinternals: Supporting Systems That Have More Than 64 Processors
The 64-bit versions of Windows 7 support more than 64 logical processors on a single machine. This paper provides information about the changes that some applications and drivers that run on Windows require to support this expanded number of processors.
This information applies for the Windows 7, 64-bit edition, operating system.
Included in this white paper:Terminology
Architectural Overview
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What is Oxite? Not what you think.
The wide world that is the internet may have successfully convinced you that Microsoft just released this wonderful, mystical new blogging front-end for use on ASP.NET servers (Windows hosting, for those of you who just grab shared plans and run with them rather than learning nitty gritty details). There’s a problem with this interpretation of [...]
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Windows 7 spurring development of capacitive touch panels for PC market
With the prospects of Windows 7 sending major PC vendors looking for capacitive touch panel solutions, IC design houses such as Elan Microelectronics, Synaptics, Cypress, Egalax_empia Technology Incorporated (EETI) are all actively developing solutions to tap the market, according to market sources.
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Other players, such as indium tin oxide (ITO) glass suppliers and medium- and large-size [...] -
Mark Russinovich on virtualization, Sysinternals and the cloud
In this interview from Microsoft Tech-Ed EMEA 2008 in Barcelona, author and Microsoft technical fellow Mark Russinovich sits down with SearchWinIT.com senior news director Margie Semilof to discuss several topics that are on the horizon for Windows administrators, such as cloud computing, client virtualization, and the release of Windows 7 Server. He also provides insight [...]
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Microsoft datacenter architect defects to Amazon
James Hamilton, an architect on Microsoft’s Data Center Futures team, has decided to leave Microsoft for Amazon.com, as TechFlash first reported.
Hamilton is known at Microsoft for his work to popularize the container-model for datacenters. He was a member of Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie’s Live Platform Services development team. Hamilton’s interests included “multi-tenant hosted [...] -
Microsoft Live Labs releases Thumbtack
Microsoft Live Labs is releasing Thumbtack, an easy way to gather and share links, photos, and text, from different Web sites and save all of the data in the form of a collection to a single place at: http://thumbtack.livelabs.com/. Thumbtack allows users to share and collaborate with others on collections by providing the ability to [...]
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Microsoft’s first iPhone app: Live Labs releases Seadragon Mobile viewer
Given the popularity of the iPhone, this was bound to happen sometime, and here it is: Microsoft Live Labs today becomes the first group inside the Redmond company to release an application for Apple’s mobile phone.
Seadragon Mobile, published to the App Store this afternoon, is a free demonstration program meant to test the viability [...]