Microsoft’s Windows juggernaut is collapsing as it tries to support 20 years of applications and becomes more complicated by the minute. Meanwhile, Windows has outgrown hardware and customers are pondering skipping Vista to wait for Windows 7. If Windows is going to remain relevant it will need radical changes….”Windows is too monolithic.”
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When thin clients first appeared on the market over 10 years ago, IBM was a great proponent of this technology even though the first units had slow CPUs, limited memory, and Linux-based operating systems. In the early days of thin clients, networks were still employing hubs instead of switches. Hubs share all network traffic with all the attached devices; therefore, this type of technology did not work well with the boot-server type of thin clients. In other words, when many thin clients were started at the same time, the network …

MCSE stands for Microsoft certified system engineer. An MCSE professional can become a system and network administrator, capable of working on Servers, Windows 2000 and 2003, Active Directory, MS Exchange 2000 and 2003, and SQL Server 2000. He can also become an infrastructure management analyst if he possesses additional qualifications, such as Citrix and back-up Wintel Engineering.
Other jobs include server management, for which it is mandatory to be a MCSE, with the ability to recognize, troubleshoot and repair complex systems, storage, networking and equipment issues. Candidates can also perform the …

Citrix Secure Access Control Single Sign On VPN Remote Desktop Solutions

What is application conferencing?If you have Citrix installed, it will allow you he ability to interactively work in real time with peers on any published application.
Teams are able to work simultaneously within an application seeing each others edits and modifications.
Participants are able to collaborate independently of where they are located - so long as they have access to the published MetaFrame Conferencing Manager client.

How do I create an instant conference?You may create an instant conference by clicking on the …

Windows 7 (formerly known as Blackcomb and Vienna) is the working name for the next major version of Microsoft Windows as the successor of Windows Vista. Microsoft has announced that it is “scoping Windows 7 development to a three-year timeframe”, and that “the specific release date will ultimately be determined by meeting the quality bar.”Windows 7 is expected to be released sometime in 2010. The client versions of Windows 7 will ship in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.A server variant, codenamed Windows Server 7, is also under development.
Microsoft is maintaining …

This is the unstable development branch of GIMP. Here we are working
towards the next stable release, which will be GIMP 2.6.
Changes in GIMP 2.5.0
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Core:
- improved rectangle tool drawing for narrow mode
- ported lots (but not all) drawing code to Cairo
- optimized image rendering by using pre-multiplied alpha
- use new GLib features such as GRegex
- use new GTK+ features such as the new GtkTooltip API
- much improved GimpCurve object
- cleaner and smaller tool options
- enable brush scaling for the Smudge tool
- added debugging framework that can be enabled at run-time
- …

New GeForce 9-Series GPUs, NVIDIA nForce 790i-Series MCPs, and NVIDIA SLI Multi-GPU Technology Reinvigorate the PC Market with Best Performance, Power, and Price
SANTA CLARA, CA—APRIL 10, 2008—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) continues to address the global demand for better visual experiences on the PC with the recent market introduction of a series of new powerful graphics processing units (GPUs) and media and communications processors (MCPs) that unleash consumers’ creativity and self-expression. The new NVIDIA GeForce® and NVIDIA nForce® products, including the new GeForce® 9800 GX2, GeForce 9800 GTX, GeForce 9600 GT …

Openmoko is a project which encompasses two related sub-projects, with the combined aim of creating a family of completely open source mobile phones. The project was founded by FIC.
The first sub-project is Openmoko Linux, an open source Linux based operating system designed for mobile phones, built using free software.
The second sub-project is the development of Openmoko phones — the hardware devices on which Openmoko Linux runs. The first device released was the Neo 1973, which will soon be joined by the Neo Freerunner some time in 2008. Unlike most other …

Software development platform aims to continue making programming robots easier and more affordable for hobbyists and professionals alike.
PITTSBURGH — April 9, 2008 — Today, at the RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition in Pittsburgh, Microsoft Corp. released the first community technology preview (CTP) of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008, the new version of its robotics programming platform. Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 contains improvements in its runtime performance, distributed computational capabilities and tools.
Scheduled for release later this year, the first preview of the product is now available for evaluation and testing by …

April 5, 2008
Board of Directors
Yahoo! Inc.
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Dear Members of the Board:
It has now been more than two months since we made our proposal to acquire Yahoo! at a 62% premium to its closing price on January 31, 2008, the day prior to our announcement. Our goal in making such a generous offer was to create the basis for a speedy and ultimately friendly transaction. Despite this, the pace of the last two months has been anything but speedy.
While there has been some limited interaction between management of …