Helium-filled hard drives increase density, lower power To quote UK rapper Scroobius Pip, "helium is the second-lightest gas that there... Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers |
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Windows 8 RTM vulnerable to Flash flaw Running the RTM (or release-to-manufacturing) version of Windows 8? You just might be, given that Microsoft made it publicly available last month. Perhaps you... Type: News story Tags: Windows |
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$5 Win8 app skips Metro on startup If you were reading the news last month, you might have heard that the release version of Windows 8 won't allow folks to boot... Type: News story Tags: Software Windows |
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Net Applications: Win7 usage share now exceeds XP's For the first time in many years, Windows XP may no longer be the most widely used version of Windows. At least, that's what the... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows |
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40 casual, indie Xbox games ready for Win8 launch When it comes out on October 26, Windows 8 should be able to run all of the same triple-A blockbuster games as Windows 7 (barring... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Windows |
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AMD courts servers with new FirePro cards Earlier this month, AMD added a bunch of new FirePro products to its lineup of workstation graphics cards. All of them employ 28-nm... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Servers |
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IEEE taking input on next-gen Ethernet standard The Ethernet standard currently tops out at a staggering 100 Gbps, which requires... Type: News story Tags: Networking Servers Workstations |
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You can now download Windows 8 RTM as a 90-day trial Windows 8 is here! Well, sort of. The full, release-to-manufacturing version of Microsoft's new operating system isn't scheduled to hit stores until October 26. However, Microsoft... Type: News story Tags: Windows |
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Rumor: Windows RT Surface could cost $199 Interesting. When it unveiled its Surface tablet in June, Microsoft said the Windows RT version of the device would be priced competitively with "comparable"... Type: News story Tags: Windows Personal tech |
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Rumor: Microsoft may hasten Windows release cycle We all remember the long dry spell between the releases of Windows XP and Vista—and Steve Ballmer's subsequent promise that it would never happen... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows |
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Metro is now 'Modern UI style' Talk about an unfortunate name change. Last week, we learned that Microsoft was in the process of deprecating its Metro brand, possibly because of... Type: News story Tags: Software Windows |
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Report: Windows 8 won't support booting to the desktop Microsoft may be retiring Metro as a brand name, but the Metro interface will still be front and center in Windows 8—more so than you... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows |
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Windows 8 RTM allegedly leaked already On Wednesday, Microsoft released Windows 8 to manufacturing. Now, barely two days later, we're hearing that the same Windows 8 build has already leaked... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows |
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Microsoft to deprecate 'Metro' label Metro. Over the years, that innocuous word has come to represent Microsoft's new visual identity—the flat colored rectangles, the clean typography, and the heavy emphasis... Type: News story Tags: Windows |
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Win8 app store to enable, facilitate seven-day trials One thing that's always bugged me about iOS is the dearth of options... Type: News story Tags: Software Windows |
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Windows 8's release set for October 26 Over the past few weeks, we've seen Microsoft progressively narrow its release time frame for Windows 8. First it was this fall, and then it... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows |
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Microsoft to users: disable Windows Gadgets Do you use Gadgets in Windows 7 or Vista? Bad news, then. In a security advisory published yesterday, Microsoft says the diminutive desktop (and... Type: News story Tags: Software Windows |
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Ballmer: We won't let Apple out-innovate us By announcing a Windows 8 tablet of its own design, Microsoft has made quite clear its intent to go toe-to-toe with Apple. Microsoft CEO Steve... Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous Windows Personal tech |
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