Windows 7 may mean fewer bargain netbooks
Microsoft must perform a tricky balancing act as it tries to keep Windows on netbooks but not get stuck in a market that generates little revenue, say industry analysts.
The software giant has still not disclosed how much it plans to charge PC makers for Windows 7 on netbooks. But an increase over the current $15 price for Windows XP is inevitable, says Richard Shim, PC analyst at research firm IDC.
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Microsoft free security software ships Tuesday
Microsoft confirmed that it will launch its free security software suite, which has been in development for almost a year, Tuesday morning.
"Microsoft Security Essentials, their highly anticipated no-cost consumer security offering, will be released to the public tomorrow, September 29," a company spokeswoman said in an e-mail reply to questions.
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Dell business laptop gets wireless battery charging
Dell introduced the Latitude Z business laptop, which includes a new wireless charging technology that could eventually find its way into other Dell systems, the company said on Tuesday.
The Latitude Z can be placed on a special stand that generates an electromagnetic field to recharge laptop batteries wirelessly. The technology, which Dell calls inductive charging, takes the same amount of time to recharge laptop batteries as an AC adapter, said Steve Belt, vice president of business client engineering at Dell.
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Microsoft under pressure to squash the latest worm
Hackers have publicly released new attack code that exploits a critical bug in the Windows operating system, putting pressure on Microsoft to fix the flaw before it leads to a worm outbreak.
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Alcatel claims new optical network speed
Alcatel-Lucent researchers said they have figured out how to multiply the speed of the fastest undersea cables by a factor of 10, an achievement that someday could send the contents of 400 DVDs hurtling from Paris to Chicago in one second.
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Java developers get .Net data link
Java developers can more easily link Microsoft .Net-based data through an interoperability bridge offered byآ France-based Noelios, Microsoft and Noelios said on Monday.
The bridge is known as the Restlet Extension for ADO.Net Services and is featured as part of Noelios's Restlet 2.0 M5 open source framework. The bridge آ leverages Microsoft's ADO.Net Data Services, for building and consuming data services from the Web.
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Java developers get .Net data link
Java developers can more easily link Microsoft .Net-based data through an interoperability bridge offered byآ France-based Noelios, Microsoft and Noelios said on Monday.
The bridge is known as the Restlet Extension for ADO.Net Services and is featured as part of Noelios's Restlet 2.0 M5 open source framework. The bridge آ leverages Microsoft's ADO.Net Data Services, for building and consuming data services from the Web.
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Microsoft's browser proposal to EU faces new resistance
Microsoft faces more criticism over the browser "ballet screen" proposal it made to European antitrust regulators, possibly delaying a deal, the Wall Street Journal said Sunday.
According to a story published on the newspaper's Web site, the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), a trade group whose members include Norwegian browser maker Opera Software, argued that the ballot screen concept would confuse users.
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Lenovo lays claim to 'unbelievably' fast Windows 7 boots
Lenovo Group is staking an early claim to potentially key turf in the Windows 7 gold-rush: the PC vendor boasting the fastest boot-up and shutdown times.
ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktop PCs for businesses will boot Windows 7 up to 56 percent faster than when loading XP or Vista, says Lenovo.
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