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Microsoft Sets New Deadline for SP2 Automatic Rollout
Microsoft began notifying customers Tuesday that it has established new deadlines regarding how long they will be able to block Windows XP Service Pack 2 from downloading automatically to their systems. Microsoft made available to customers in August a couple of different tools to temporarily disable the delivery of SP2 to users’ machines via its…
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Microsoft Overhauls Longhorn Drivers for Usability, Connectivity
SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft Corp. clued in hardware makers at the semiannual Intel Developer Forum here to the company’s Windows Longhorn developer to-do list for connectivity and drivers. The initiatives will entail a major overhaul of Windows’ device driver technology for both programmers and users. During a Tuesday session on forthcoming driver issues, Microsoft focused on a…
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Microsoft Set to Release Virtual Server 2005
Microsoft Corp. is counting on next week’s release of its Virtual Server 2005 to entice users of older versions of Windows Server to migrate to Windows Server 2003. Microsoft set Sept. 13 as the date for taking the wraps off of Virtual Server 2005, which is designed to allow customers to run multiple operating systems,…
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Build the Most PC for Your Money
The feedback we’ve gotten from you, our readers, is that you love our Build It series, but you want us to mix things up a bit from time to time. Typically, we design and build a system for a certain task, such as gaming, digital audio content creation, or cheap internet access. We then pick…
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Closing The Lead Distribution Black Hole
The process of lead dissemination could be likened to a black hole: leads enter the system and never escape. Stephen Hawking recently said that black holes eventually expel mangled matter, but I think you get the picture. BlueRoads Corp. believes it has an answer to the challenge of tracking leads. The company’s BlueRoads 5 partner…
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Intel, AMD Pack Dual Processing Cores on Single Chip
Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are revving up for what they see as the next big step in the evolution of x86 processors—the introduction of dual processing cores. Both companies are demonstrating technology that puts two processing cores on a single chip, providing users with almost double the processing power in the same…
