Microsoft Announces Windows XP To Be Discontinued

Microsoft Announces Windows XP To Be Discontinued

Author JoeDigital | 27.06.2008 | Category Computers, Windows

This coming Monday, June 30th, will mark the end of Microsoft XP. Although it will still be available from some manufacturers until January of 2009, many computer users are upset about having to switch to the Vista OS.

“We’ve spent more than a year consulting withour ustomers and industry partners to ensure that we’re doing the right thing,”
Microsoft says at its Web site,  The Future of Windows XP.“

 Micrsoft’s Vista will become their premier Operating System next month, despite having gotten bad reviews and only now becoming fully supported by a complete range of drivers and utilities. Microsoft provides an update with current fixes in , which greatly enhances Vista’s performance.

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Hammer Storage: A Terabyte+ in USB Portability with morespace®

Author JoeDigital | 23.06.2008 | Category Computers, Mac/Apple, Technology, Windows

Here’s a portable hard drive to fulfill anybody’s dream of a little extra storage. With a low-end storage capacity of 250GB, and the upper limit models sporting a whopping 1.5 TB (That’s TERABYTES!), this USB drive is amazing. It can connect to any USB 1.1 or 2.0 compatible system running Windows 2000, XP,  Vista or Mac OS X.

We’re not sure exactly what there is not to like. The 250GB model is priced at a very agreeable $129.99, and is both quiet and stackable. It’s the same size as an ordinary internal hard drive, but has the versatility to move from home to the office and back again.

Visit the morespace site.

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The New Firefox 3 Browser Is Available

Author JoeDigital | 18.06.2008 | Category Computers, Linux, Mac/Apple, Telecommunications, Windows, World Wide Web

In case you haven’t heard, Firefox version 3 was released on June 17th, and by June 18th over 8 million copies had been downloaded. It may take a week or two for the results to be in, but estimates say this may set a Guinness World Record for the most downloads of a single software package to ever take place in a day, by more than 3 million! Some estimates say that’s a 4% market share of browsers on the first day of its release, and nothing has ever done that before in the history of the world wide web.

If you missed the grand opening,
download Firefox 3 from Mozilla.org.

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Windows 7.0

Author JoeDigital | 11.01.2008 | Category Windows

Microsoft claims that the touch screen capabilities of windows in its next version will blow away users of iPhone fans. Windows 7.0 is expected to host a complete sport interface that is revised.

Along with Windows 7.0 there will be a radical facelift for the Office 2007 as well. Windows 7.0 is considered to be the successor for Windows Vista and hence, the clock in ticking away for the release of Windows 7.0. Windows 7.0 is expected to offer its customers a new enhanced and streamlined kernel, VM that is inbuilt in order to run software that is old, user interface that is simplified and revised. Windows 7.0 also make use of virtualization in order to run software that is specifically for Windows 7.0 written. Office 2007’s user interface will go well along with the windows 7.0 and that is what has been interpreted from the news of microsoft.

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Influential Product – Windows Vista

Author JoeDigital | 10.01.2008 | Category Windows

Year 2007 has been extremely good for fans of technology either you were bound on desktop largely or were on the move constantly.

Few of the technology products stood out due to the fact that their influence will be felt largely well in the near future. Irrelevant as you may even own these products but it is predicted to have an effect on the work that you do and it is none other than Windows Vista. You may love it, or hate it or perhaps still deciding on it but Windows Vista was declared most influential product for the year 2007 and has become the product that one must have for the years to come. As most of the world in computing are dependent on Windows and majority of software and hardware makers are also dependent on the windows in order to drive their sales. Windows Vista’s change in interface, security that is beefed up and the search capability that is enhanced has pushed its stand towards this acheivement.

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Windows XP recommended by IBM

Author JoeDigital | 10.01.2008 | Category Windows

When you shop online for your new computer, you could observe that almost all manufacturers recommend Windows Vista along with their computer either on their website or retail stores.

For people who will use the computer in their home, they all recommend Home Premium version of Windows Vista. For business usages, it is Vista Business. Almost all manufacturers sell the new Windows Vista versions and recommend it too. Along in this battle is IBM which recommends Windows XP and not the new version Windows Vista. IBM still sells their refurbished computers with Windows XP and recommends it strongly. There are reasons behind it are they could be either IBM has not updated their webpage in over a year by now or perhaps the refurbished computers still hold Windows XP or there is no love obviously for Microsoft from IBM and hence, IBM may have found windows XP a cheap shot.

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Service Pack 3

Author JoeDigital | 09.01.2008 | Category Windows

Service Pack 3 of Windows XP is out and it’s the test version that is available at this point in time.

This package will contain primarily updates for previously released, hotfixes and updates for the security. News about the boost is performance is all out after having tested the beta version of the Service Pack 3. Internet Explorer 7 is not available with this version of Service Pack but certainly there are updates available for both Internet Explorer 6 and 7 making it compatible for both version of Internet Explorer. Also what will be available with this Service Pack 3 for Windows XP is all of the previously released hotfixes and updates which may not have been downloaded because of other reasons. This Service Pack version 3 will be available for download potentially and known to boost the performance of your computer. Also Network access protection will not be available in this version of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP as this will allow all of the users to access features of windows server 2008 operating system.

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Multi-touch

Author JoeDigital | 08.01.2008 | Category Windows

Windows’s Next version from Microsoft will support multi touch features that are complex.

It is referred as Windows 7 and the operating system is going to receive an update of Windows technology which will allow contacts which have multiple points and options of input that is more complex and significant in comparison to iPhone. This sort of allusion only confirms the increasing focus that Microsoft has set towards touch screen devices. Microsoft has been a proponent for long of tablet PCs and input touch in Mobile Windows but has provided typically control through single contact point and has designed largely the interfaces with stylus all around but no fingers. Apple handset users are known to be blown away by this windows addition. Dell has revealed a new Latitude XT tablet that posses a touch screen capacitive which accepts inputs that are multi touch and with no stylus around but this will require drivers.

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Windows- Vista SP1 Comes Fully Loaded

Author JoeDigital | 07.01.2008 | Category Windows

The much awaited Service Pack 1 for Microsoft’s new baby Windows Vista is available online and can be easily downloaded. These come as a blessing to the Vista users and end their woes in many ways.

MS released a robust roster of the key contents of the SP1 and this exhaustive list consisting almost 300 hot fixes which covers almost everything from video performance to data protection. This document can run up to 47 pages and is likely to increase in size, as per indications from MS. In the meantime there are loads of updates available for the Vista users to chew on. The new updates are to fix issues like the optical disks turning blank once formatted Vista‘s Live File System, there is this new patch that helps fix the error which pops during copying of large files over the network. There are also patches available for enhancing the speed of Vista on a PC when linked to private virtual network.

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Windows- Windows Home Server

Author JoeDigital | 03.01.2008 | Category Windows

In case you have multiple computers at home and you are looking for an easy way to backup, remotely access and share music, videos, and pictures including other files, you also want added security and automatic back up options, here is the answers to your question, windows have launched Windows Home Server in October 2007, that would amaze you with its performance.

This is compatible and expandable with increase in household demands and has low system requirements. This is not made to run other programs and application, neither its can run as main computer, but it really solves the need of a server for domestic usage. The system requirements are Pentium 3 or similar processor with a speed of 1 GHz, a nominal 512MB RAM, a hard disk drive capacity of 70GB, where as Windows Home Server occupies a maximum of 20 GB, a network card and the installation kit which would include the basic of a PC like a keyboard, monitor, DVD ROM, mouse etc. these are temporary requirements and can be removed as soon as the installation is complete.

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