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Poll: 20 Percent Will Move to Vista in the Next Year

Eighty-six percent of IT decision makers say they plan to adopt Windows Vista, and 20 percent say they will move to the new operating system within the next year, according to a new tracking poll sponsored by CDW Corp.

AMD Discontinues Low-Cost PC

Chip-maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has quietly discontinued a money-losing line of low-cost PCs aimed at helping customers in developing countries get access to the Internet, according to a regulatory filing.

Intel Rolls Out Quad-Core Processors

Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chip maker, on Tuesday launched the world's first "quad-core" processors, a new line of chips that feature four computing brains and improved performance over previous models with just one or two processing cores.

Easy Local Group Membership Enumeration

Need to know who are members of each local administrator’s group? Here’s a script that can help.

Gates Touts Vista Launch

Launch might exceed Windows XP expectations, says Redmond chairman.

CompUSA to Offer Early Sales of Vista

Small business customers will have access to OS early, much like enterprise businesses. Consumers still have to wait for January 30th.

Apple, Adobe Apps Get Patched

Also: The danger lurking on USB thumb drives and in social networking sites.

Jury Selection Starts in Microsoft Antitrust in Iowa

Hundreds of potential jurors report for duty in Microsoft lawsuit.

Java Goes Open Source

Computer server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. said Monday that it had begun to make its Java technology an open-source software project available for free on the Internet.

Sun Sets Java Code Free

Sun Microsystems releases its Java technology as open-source project.

Teen Faces Jail for Tapping Wireless

Singapore teen faces 3 years' jail for tapping into another's wireless Internet.

Long Process Leads to Short Vista Sound

Some musicians spend 18 months working on a whole album. At Microsoft Corp., that's how long it took to perfect just four seconds of sound.

IBM Galvanized by Video Game Business

No matter whether Nintendo Co., Microsoft Corp. or Sony Corp. wins the video game console war, there already is one huge victor: IBM Corp., which designed and makes the microprocessors for all three units.

Microsoft's Zune Debuts

Zune music player is Microsoft's latest entertainment foray

No More Clicky-Clicky

Administer the ADUC through the command line tools. First up: DSADD

The Sound of Vista

Microsoft turns to musician Robert Fripp to create many of Vista's sounds, including signature start-up sound.

November Patch Tuesday To Come with 6 Fixes

Advanced security bulletin refers to an XML flaw and five other Windows flaws deemed "critical"; unknown whether security rollup addresses recent Visual Studio flaw.

Intel To Package Web Tools

Think of it as Wikipedia for the workplace. Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chip maker, now wants to provide businesses with software to create blogging, wiki and news feed services to connect employees on collaborative projects.

Gates: Vista Survived Antitrust Challenges

Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Thursday the company's upcoming Windows Vista operating system has survived antitrust complaints by rivals who aimed to "castrate" it.

Microsoft Adding Code 'Obfuscation' to Orcas

Microsoft announced this week it is adding an enhanced version of Dotfuscator Community Edition (CE) to the next major release of Microsoft Visual Studio, code-named "Orcas."

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