18th March 2010 Archive

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Hidden Windows 7 costs worry upgraders

Compatibility downer

Microsoft - if not IT pros - can breath a sigh of relief, as Windows 7 has given businesses a reason for not defecting to competing desktop systems. According to a new study released Wednesday, the number of businesses desperately looking for an alternative to Windows on the desktop has dropped significantly for the first time …

Software & Security 18 Mar 2010, 07:44
Signal Lake rescues InPhase

Holographic light at end of the tunnel

Collapsed holographic storage maker InPhase is being resuscitated. Venture Capital firm Signal Lake has bought most of the assets of InPhase, which went belly-up earlier this year. Signal Lake was a founding investor in InPhase and has stuck with the firm through its troubles as it tried and failed to bring its Tapestry …

Enterprise 18 Mar 2010, 09:29
Google extends ARM to browser natives

Native Client plug-in goes portable

Google has told the world that Native Client - its native-code browser plug-in - can now run on ARM chips. When the plug-in was first released a year ago, it only ran on x86 processors, but the company has now updated the platform for x86-64 and ARM. In a blog post, Google said that its initial tests indicate that on both …

Software & Security 18 Mar 2010, 11:15
Dell bars Win 7 refunds from Linux lovers

Microsoft Windows 7? 'It's free'

Dell has told a Linux-loving Reg reader that he can't receive a refund on the copy of Windows 7 that shipped with his new Dell netbook because it was bundled with the machine for "free". In October, another Reg reader succeeded in gaining a $115 (£70.34) refund from the computer maker after he rejected the licence for …

IT Channel 18 Mar 2010, 14:20
VMware cuts entry vSphere prices

Spring sale for SMBs

Paul Maritz, ex-Microsoftie and current president and chief executive officer at VMware, is learning just how much fun it is to compete against his former employer. While with vSphere 4.0 VMware arguably has the most sophisticated server virtualization tools in the market, it is tough to beat free and bearing the Microsoft …

Enterprise 18 Mar 2010, 14:50
IBM chops high-end Power6 server tags

Not deeply enough

IBM has been mum about when its high-end servers based on the eight-core Power7 processor are going to come to market. With bigger x64 and Itanium boxes around the corner and the 256-core Power 795 machines using Power7s not expected until later this year, though, Big Blue has to do something to get at least some customers to …

Enterprise 18 Mar 2010, 17:44
Windows Server to get dynamic memory with R2 SP1

Virtual desktop mashup with Citrix

Microsoft and Citrix Systems hosted a virtual desktop love-in Thursday, talking about how their respective desktop virtualization products mesh well and how the companies will continue to cooperate in the future. Microsoft also lifted the veil on upcoming service packs for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, which have …

Enterprise 18 Mar 2010, 20:50