Archive for the ‘Hi-Tech blog’ Category
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Configureren van uw touchpad
Iedere notebook heeft een apparaat dat een alternatief is voor de muis: een touchpad. U weet wel, dat vakje waar u met uw vinger overheen wrijft om de muisaanwijzer te sturen. Synaptics maakt wereldwijd het leeuwendeel van deze touchpads, die overigens niet bij iedereen geliefd zijn. Ligt dat misschien aan de instellingen? De afbeeldingen zijn [...]
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LCARS
Of het tegen die tijd nog steeds door Microsoft wordt gemaakt weten we niet. Wel kunnen we u vertellen dat het besturingssysteem van de toekomst LCARS heet, tenminste in de wereld van Star Trek en in de periode van The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine en Voyager. De LCARS-versie van die laatste kunt u onder [...]
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Windows 7 Feature Focus: Guest Mode
Windows 7 includes a nearly-hidden feature called Guest Mode that is primarily aimed at shared consumer PCs that need to be returned to their original running state after being used by a child or guest. The feature can be enabled on individual user accounts; when user logs off or the PC reboots, those accounts are [...]
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Microsoft to accelerate relational capabilities for the cloud
Microsoft will expose the network protocol from its SQL Server database as the service protocol in SDS (SQL Data Services), the cloud-based version of the database, thus enabling customers to use a full relational model in the cloud.
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Under the plan, use of the TDS (Tabular Data Stream) protocol also will enable customers to leverage investments [...] -
Windows 7 Licensing May Hurt Microsoft Courting of Enterprise
Microsoft is looking to power PC users as a key driver behind the enterprise adoption of the upcoming Windows 7 operating system. Microsoft is hoping for a better reception from businesses than Vista received, despite the fact that Vista also had good enterprise features. But thanks to Microsoft’s licensing plan, many of the enterprise features [...]
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Windows 7: Choice is Good
Paul Thurrott: Microsoft late last week admitted that it will allow end users to remove Internet Explorer (IE) 8 from Windows 7, a decision that should forestall any pending antitrust charges in Europe and provide users around the world with a way to ensure that their browser of choice is the one used in all [...]
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Microsoft Cripples Windows 7 Starter Edition in Hopes of Netbook Upgrades
With Windows 7 Microsoft is releasing cheap versions of its OS for netbooks, but faces the challenge of getting customers to buy pricier versions
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Microsoft’s Windows 7 is the apple of many in tech community’s eye, with even former Microsoft critics eager to get their hands on the hot new OS which arrives later this year. [...] -
How Vista mistakes guided changes to Windows development
About a year ago on its Redmond, Washington, campus, a member of Microsoft’s Windows Vista team met with a group of journalists to face some tough questions about the OS.
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At the time, it was clear Vista was not going to be the great success Microsoft had predicted, as many of the company’s critical business customers [...]