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Windows Server 2012: RTM review

Microsoft is looking ahead to a future of private and public clouds, where information is everything, and users can access it however they want. Is Microsoft's latest server OS up to the job?

September 13, 2012 by Simon Bisson

MS cranks up Windows 2000 blitz

The operating system won't be on the market for four months -- but you can buy the Windows 'Fun Putty' today.

October 28, 1999 by Mary Jo Foley

News to know: Windows 7, Azure, SAP, Google book scans, RIM

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:Ed Bott: A first look at Windows 7's pre-beta PDC releaseMary-Jo Foley: Windows 7: What's coming for business usersLarry Dignan: Windows 7: Will it completely freeze Vista deployments?

October 28, 2008 by Sam Diaz

News to know: Less is more, Windows 7, Firefox 3.1, Google

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:Mary-Jo Foley: Microsoft plays up ‘less is more’ as its holiday retail messageDeb Perelman: Signs your company might soon go belly-upChristopher Lochhead: Essential strategies for weathering the economic stormPaul Murphy: So what can Sun do?

October 15, 2008 by Sam Diaz

News to know: Windows 7; OpenOffice flaws; Cybercrime; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:Ed Bott: You've got Windows 7 questions, I've got...

October 29, 2008 by Larry Dignan

News to know: Storm; AMD, Intel; Tech economy reels

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:Josh Taylor: Verizon announces BlackBerry Storm availability, pricingLarry Dignan: AMD unveils ‘Shanghai’; Aims to better compete with IntelAMD: Does the resurrection start with ‘Shanghai’?

November 12, 2008 by Larry Dignan

Green homes going mainstream

Built in a factory with energy efficiency in mind, these sunlit homes challenge the notion that living green means living in a hut.Photos: Building a foundation for green living

April 24, 2007 by Natalie Gagliordi

Big data and the big privacy problem

If privacy is dead (as a number of technology executives in whose interest it is for us not to care about privacy have opined), there wouldn't have been much fuss over the most recent time researchers discovered that iPhones - like pretty much every other phones in the world - track your location and use it to build up maps and traffic information.

May 1, 2011 by Simon Bisson

Get facts, not spin, about Vista's new license

Last week I documented a change in the terms of the retail Windows Vista license that will directly impact hobbyists and enthusiasts. Paul Thurrott spoke to a Microsoft product manager who says it's just a "clarification." That's a remarkable bit of historical revisionism and a major change in what Microsoft has been telling its customers for five years. But don't take my word or Paul's - go read the supporting documents for yourself.

October 16, 2006 by Ed Bott

Another take on Vista vs. XP benchmarks

When I read my colleague Adrian Kingsley-Hughes’ epic account of his benchmark tests of Windows Vista SP1 versus Windows XP SP2, the first thing that struck me was how far apart his numbers were from those I was seeing. In fact, I went back and redid all my tests to confirm that I hadn’t missed anything along the way. They checked out completely. On my test bed, with only one exception, Vista SP1 was consistently as fast as or faster than XP SP2. Why the difference? I have a few theories.

February 19, 2008 by Ed Bott