Yes, Windows 10 runs great on old hardware
Can you run Windows 10 on a PC that's eight years old? Oh yes, and it runs spectacularly well.
Can you run Windows 10 on a PC that's eight years old? Oh yes, and it runs spectacularly well.
The company has lined up high-profile partners for an upcoming version of its Windows software designed to be stuffed into all sorts of nontraditional computing gadgets.
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
Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 is done. But Microsoft's other major Windows service pack, Windows XP SP3, continues to wind its way through the testing process. Another new test build of XP SP3 went to 15,000 testers this week.
What happens when you take your PC in for repairs to a major national computer retailer? Despite paying premium prices, you might not get premium service. In fact, as I discovered this week, you might wind up with a PC full of bootleg software and more troubles than you bargained for.
In speaking with CNET News.com, Microsoft's co-founder says "superimportant" software--antivirus?--would wind up in its OS.
When Asus first unveiled its Eee PC at Computex in 2007, the industry viewed it as curiosity. One year later, Asus says it has sold more than a million Eee PCs and a new category, the ultra low-cost PC, is suddenly one of the biggest trends at this year's tradeshow.
The company further breaks up its Windows 2000 successor and releases new development tools to push Whistler into new markets.
There's a slightly weird, slightly sad video for the TellMe service that Microsoft bought, merged into its own voice recognition offerings and used for the voice recognition, control and search on Windows Phone. It shows a Siri-style service that fast-forwards a couple of gal pals through planning and celebrating a wedding - only with the kind of really long-term interactions you need to accomplish anything more complex than a Web search or putting an appointment in the diary.
Don Ferguson, CA's CTO was one of the pioneers of the software revolution that built much of today's Internet, driving the n-tier model that powers much of the web in his role of Chief Architect of IBM's Websphere application server. At CAworld last week I sat down to talk with him about how he saw the future of software – especially around the model-driven development, orchestration and management framework that CA was proposing.