http://www.peacoc.com/ http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/568128/ WinBeta Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:50:22 +0000 http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/568128/ Dell said on Tuesday that it plans later this month to stop selling PCs downgraded to Windows XP, ahead of next month's deadline to stop nearly all shipments of PCs running the older operating system.

Microsoft ended sales of Windows XP some time ago, but has continued to allow PC makers to sell Windows 7 machines that are "factory downgraded" to the older operating system. However, even that option is set to end October 22 for Dell and other PC makers...

View Full Article: CNET News ]]> http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/568054/ WinBeta Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:53:33 +0000 http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/568054/ The third member of Microsoft's new trio of small business servers, codenamed "Small Business Server 7" is running behind the other two, and is now set to go to public beta by the end of September.

The three new products — the “Vail” Windows Home Server release, the “Aurora” hybrid-cloud small-business offering, and Small Business Server (SBS) 7 — were all expected to hit new milestones before the end of August...

View Full Article: Mary Jo Foley's Blog ]]> http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/568029/ WinBeta Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:36:04 +0000 http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/568029/ Feeding speculation that Amazon.com is planning a gaming push, the company has snagged Microsoft's director of game platform strategy.

Andre Vrignaud announced his departure Friday on his personal blog. "Can't really talk about details at this point, but it'll become pretty evident soon enough...and you all know where my passions lie," he said in the blog...

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View Full Article: Network World ]]> http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/568016/ WinBeta Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:58:41 +0000 http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/568016/ Origin PC on Tuesday introduced its Big O über-class gaming PC with Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console built into the same chassis.

The Xbox 360 is liquid-cooled, as is the PC gaming system. The base unit comes with an Intel Core i7-930 overclocked processor, dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 overclocked and cooled graphics cards, dual 50GB OCZ SSDs (Solid state drives), a 2TB data drive, a Blu-ray burner, Creative Fatal1ty sound card, a 1-year parts/labor warranty, and lifetime tech support...

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View Full Article: Ars Technica ]]> http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/567671/ WinBeta Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:51:39 +0000 http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/567671/ Kodu is a new visual programming language made specifically for creating games. It is designed to be accessible for children and enjoyable for anyone. The programming environment runs on the Xbox, allowing rapid design iteration using only a game controller for input.

The Kodu Language and Grammar Specification white paper is now available for download from Microsoft Research...

View Full Article: MSDN Blogs ]]> http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/567620/ WinBeta Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:38:06 +0000 http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/567620/ Microsoft is investigating reports of a new bug in Internet Explorer.

Redmond's Security Response Team (MSRT) said on Friday that it was aware of a "publicly disclosed issue involving Internet Explorer", and promised an investigation, without going into details...

View Full Article: The Register ]]> http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/567619/ WinBeta Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:38:06 +0000 http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/567619/ Search giant Google has revealed that it has been approached by the Texas attorney general as part of an antitrust review. This investigation seems to be essentially along the lines of the European one, revealed back in February, looking into whether Google manipulates its search results in order to suppress competition, mainly in the area of price comparison.

Just as in the earlier case, Google has responded to this new investigation by pointing out that the hidden hand of Microsoft can be seen in the complaints received by the Texas AG. Foundem was part of the European complaint too, and is a member of ICOMP, which is sponsored by Microsoft...

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Computers once filled entire rooms, then sat in the closet, moved to our desks, and now nestle in our pockets. Soon, the computer may become invisible to us, hiding away in everyday objects...

View Full Article: The New York Times ]]> http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/566835/ WinBeta Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:56:36 +0000 http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/566835/ Microsoft's hosted suite of enterprise applications — the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) went down for 90 minutes on September 3 for a number of customers in North America.

This is the second BPOS outage reported in the past month. The previous one hit on August 23, and like today’s, was attributed to an unspecified networking issue...

View Full Article: Mary Jo Foley's Blog ]]> http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/566643/ WinBeta Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:01:19 +0000 http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/566643/ Apple's iOS mobile operating system rocketed past the open source Linux this summer to become the third most popular Web browsing platform on the Internet.

A new release from Web traffic firm Net Applications has revealed that iOS share overtook Linux in July, when it represented 1.06 percent of all Web traffic, verus the 0.93 share of Linux. Apple's mobile platform grew even more in August, when it represented 1.13 percent, compared to a shrinking share for Linux, down to 0.85 percent...

View Full Article: AppleInsider ]]> http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/566251/ WinBeta Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:05:11 +0000 http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/566251/ Intel will release on Thursday an upgrade to its parallel development toolset for Windows application developers, adding both a tool to walk developers through parallelism, as well as support for Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010 IDE.

Intel Parallel Studio 2011 is an update to Intel Parallel Studio. It aids developers in building parallel C++ or C applications for multicore or multiprocessing systems. "It's a suite of four products that work on the developer lifecycle, including designing, building, verifying and tuning," said Bill Savage, vice president and general manager of the Developer Products Division in Intel's Software and Services Group...

View Full Article: InfoWorld ]]> http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/566250/ WinBeta Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:05:11 +0000 http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/566250/ Google is celebrating the second anniversary of its Google Chrome browser with the release of new stable and beta versions, bringing an even cleaner and simpler user interface and increased speed and performance.

As the Google Chrome Blog points out, Chrome 6 is years beyond where most imagined browser technology when it was first introduced just two years ago...

View Full Article: ReadWriteWeb ]]> http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/566249/ WinBeta Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:05:11 +0000 http://feed.peacoc.com/2010_9/566249/ At Microsoft's Mix '10 conference in March, where Microsoft took the wraps off its HTML 5 vision for Internet Explorer 9, there were a lot of questions about the future for Silverlight.

Six months later — and one new version of Silverlight (version 4, released in April) later, those questions still persist. Should Web developers target Internet Explorer 9 or Silverlight when creating new Web and mobile applications?

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