Hughes Internet Home Minimum Service Pack Compared to Dialup

Does the Hughes home package which states it’s 20 times faster then 56K Dialup, make a worth while investment? I have never used anything but dialup so, I’m lost when it involves any other type of service. I think their cheapest home version is $69.99 per month for leasing. Thanks for any advice! [...]

Hughes Internet Home Minimum Service Pack Compared to Dialup

Does the Hughes home package which states it’s 20 times faster then 56K Dialup, make a worth while investment? I have never used anything but dialup so, I’m lost when it involves any other type of service. I think their cheapest home version is $69.99 per month for leasing. Thanks for any advice! [...]

IT professional resources for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 networking

Here are links to the IT professional content published by the Windows Server UA Networking team in the Windows Server 2008 TechCenter:

“What’s New in Networking” topic at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd391869.aspx
“What’s New in Network Access Protection” topic at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd378823.aspx
“What’s New in Network Policy Server (NPS)” topic at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd391911.aspx
“What’s New in DNS” topic at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd378952.aspx

Here are two white papers [...]

A sneak peek at the Windows 7 Release Candidate

Last week, Windows 7 build 7048 escaped from Microsoft’s labs and quickly made its way to the Internet, where the x86 and x64 versions quickly became top downloads of the week.
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This build is not the long-awaited Release Candidate, but it does include a slew of bug fixes, design changes, and interface tweaks checked in as [...]

Windows 7 Won’t Save Hybrid Hard Drives

Mark Hachman: Windows 7 apparently won’t resuscitate the market for hybrid hard drives, which flickered out around the end of 2007.
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At the end of a meeting with Jon van Bronkhorst, executive director of product marketing for the consumer solutions business at Seagate, I asked whether or not hybrid hard drives stood a chance of coming [...]

Past was guide for changes to Windows 7 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 [...]

Sneaky Cisco plots to take over Microsoft’s world

Who is Microsoft’s biggest competitor? Some say “itself,” and with good reason, as Computerworld points out. Microsoft’s biggest Windows competitor is pirated Windows.
But there’s another company that is increasingly setting its sights on Microsoft, and it’s doing so largely unnoticed. The company is networking giant Cisco, which through a mix of open-source software [...]

Check out the enhanced Migration Solution for Windows Server 2008 R2!

Have you heard the great buzz about Windows Server 2008 R2?  If you’re eager to find out how to migrate your existing servers to this new platform, check out the Windows Server TechCenter Migration Portal for Windows Server 2008 R2.  This one-stop-shop for existing and new migration resources can help you jump start your migration [...]