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Analysis: Serious SATA Steps In for Storage
With 400GB total capacity, 7,200 rpm and 16MB of onboard cache, the current specs of the new Western Digital WD Caviar RE2 may look pretty boring—until you discover that the drive is designed for 24/7 duty cycles. Why am I making a big fuss over a hard-working SATA (Serial ATA) drive? With 24/7 levels of…
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Matchmaker Service Helps VARs Service Remote Customers
With VAR-to-VAR partnerships becoming integral to the way the channel does business, it was only a matter of time before someone decided to try playing matchmaker. Taking a cue from the eBay Inc. model of connecting buyers with sellers, New York-based ComputerRepair.com last year launched a Web-based service that matches channel companies looking for services…
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Microsoft Posts How-To on Working with RSS in Vista
Microsoft on Wednesday posted the first installment of a blog to advise developers on creating Web pages and RSS feeds that work correctly with IE 7 and Windows Vista. Microsoft plans to provide a common feed list of subscriptions and a common feed store of data in Vista, the Windows client release formerly known as…
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Do Microsoft’s Vista Hardware Guidelines Meet the Mark?
While the final hardware requirements for Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system won’t be made public until next summer, testers say the first beta release of the operating system is performing moderately well on existing PC hardware. Microsoft released to testers the first beta of Vista one week ago. As it has been doing for the…
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Apple Will Target Tiger’s Networking Glitches
Although two updates to Apple Computer Inc.’s Mac OS X Tiger have fixed many compatibility problems, enterprise networking problems persist. A new update, version 10.4.3, is expected this summer, and will address some of the remaining problems, according to sources. Sources say that the update will fix continuing problems with integration with Microsoft Corp. Activity…
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Will Your Clients’ PCs Run Windows Vista?
Not all PCs will gain a full view of Windows Vista. Microsoft Corp. has yet to finalize the minimum requirements for a PC to run its forthcoming operating system. But numerous PC industry watchers predict a dichotomy for the OS, which is due in late 2006. Although it will be able to run on all…
