Building upon Mac OS X Snow Leopard’s aim to improve overall performance for Mac desktop users, Snow Leopard Server will similarly seek to improve scalability and reliability for Mac server users.
We got our hands on the new version of popular Twitter desktop app Tweetdeck that will be delivered to all users tomorrow and we’re pretty excited about what’s been added.If you’ve never used Tweetdeck, it’s the most powerful application available for sending and receiving Twitter messages. It’s about to become even more awesome.
Well let’s take a look at one of my favorite apps on the Linux system, a system monitor unmatched and unsurpassed by any other when it comes to customization and features. It’s called Conky. Conky can display the stats and information on your desktop or within another window, but trust me, you would want to display it on your desktop!
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Intel's 2009 roadmap: full speed ahead to 32nm
Ars Technica – 41 minutes ago The news coming out of the semiconductor market has been downright terrible of late, but Intel's announcement today of its billion investment into 32nm process technology combined with its renewed commitment to innovation and technological … Intel 32nm "Westmere" desktop motherboard. (Source: Intel) DailyTech Intel's 32-nm 'Westmere' Processors on Track for Late 2009 eWeek Register – Inquirer – TechSpot – Investor’s Business Daily (subscription) all 62 news articles |
Insight into Microsoft’s fight against Intel’s GNU/Linux on the desktop
Are you interested in taking the job of Director of Open Source Desktop Strategy at Microsoft? If so, here’s the LinkedIn job description. Matt Aslett at The 451 Group notes that Microsoft is looking for “a strong team member to lead Microsoft’s global desktop competitive strategy as it relates to open source competitors.”
Dark Neuron writes “My institution has thousands of computers, and is looking at starting an IT policy to encrypt everything, all hard drives, including desktops, laptops, external hard drives, USB flash drives, etc. I am looking at an open source product for Windows, Mac, UNIX, as well as portable hard drives, but I am concerned about overhead and speed penalties. Does anyone have experience and/or advice with encrypting every single device in a similar situation?”
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AMD's new Phenom II chips take on Intel
CNET News – 1 hour ago Advanced Micro Devices added new Phenom II desktop models on Monday, including triple-core processors, as it tries to outdo Intel desktop price-performance. AMD cores up with Phenom II Register AMD finally goes DDR3 Inquirer PC Magazine – ZDNet – SlashGear – WELT ONLINE all 79 news articles Langue : Français |
Microsoft wants to find someone to help it combat open-source competitors on the desktop, but Ubuntu is the most likely target for a range of reasons.
Julie188 writes “Microsoft blogger Mitchell Ashley, who has been using Windows 7 full-time, predicts that Windows 7 will fail to lure XP users away from their beloved, aging operating system — after all, Windows 7 is little more than what Vista should have been, when it shipped two years ago. But eventually old PCs must be replaced and then we’ll see corporations, desperate to get out of the expense of managing Windows machines, get wise. Instead of buying new Windows 7 PCs, they could deliver virtualized XP desktops to a worker’s own PC and/or mobile device. Ashley believes that Citrix’s Project Independence has the right idea.”
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