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Slick VOIP system using normal phones – Cheap calls everywere
Many people like the idea of cheap phone calls router over the internet, and Skype and other similar services have gained in popularity, but they are still not really much use in most households.
There are quite a few reasons for this, but mainly that you normally have to be at your computer, or the PC [...] -
Slick VOIP system using normal phones – Cheap calls everywere
Many people like the idea of cheap phone calls router over the internet, and Skype and other similar services have gained in popularity, but they are still not really much use in most households.
There are quite a few reasons for this, but mainly that you normally have to be at your computer, or the PC [...] -
Looking For Advice With First PC Build
Hey everyone. My current computer was built nearly 4 years ago by a friend of mine, and it’s causing me too many problems now. So much so that I’ve decided it’s time to build a new PC. I’ve never built a PC before, but I’ve fiddled around inside computers enough to know what goes where, [...]
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Looking For Advice With First PC Build
Hey everyone. My current computer was built nearly 4 years ago by a friend of mine, and it’s causing me too many problems now. So much so that I’ve decided it’s time to build a new PC. I’ve never built a PC before, but I’ve fiddled around inside computers enough to know what goes where, [...]
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More Bits, Windows 7 Sessions, and Keynote Speakers for PDC2008
As promised, we published 17 additional Windows 7 sessions this morning. If you were wondering how much you’d hear about Windows 7 at this year’s Professional Developers Conference, you now have the answer: a lot. A few of the session descriptions simply say "TBD"…and that’s not because we’re unsure about what we plan to talk [...]
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Microsoft releases new Ultimate Extras – Microsoft Tinker
Microsoft has silently released 3 updates for Windows Ultimate users today.
Microsoft Tinker, Ultimate Extra sounds from Microsoft Tinker and Windows DreamScene Content Pack #4 are all available on Windows Update now.
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Microsoft Tinker is a puzzle based game where players get a set amount of moves to move a robot around a puzzle and solve the [...] -
Microsoft Admits What Went Wrong with Vista, and How They Fixed It
Will Smith @ Maximum PC: We sat down with Microsoft to hear the company’s side of the Vista story. What lessons have been learned following the worst Windows launch in the company’s history? Is Microsoft doing enough to regain PC users’ faith?
Way back in January 2007, after years of hype and anticipation, Microsoft [...] -
Hyper-V adds flexibility but brings new risks too
Virtualising a datacentre can make it more flexible, but it also introduces new points of failure and it doesn’t remove the need for critical servers to be duplicated for fail-over, disaster recovery (DR) specialist Neverfail has warned.
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The warning came as replication and DR companies lined up to promise support for Microsoft’s Hyper-V server virtualisation technology, [...]