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Could 64-bit Windows finally be taking off? | A blog by Ina Fried - CNET News.com

The trend is also evident by looking at the kinds of systems being sold at retailers. In its circular this Sunday most of the desktops and half of the dozen notebook models being advertised by Office Depot had the 64-bit version of Windows pre-installed.

The mix was similar in Circuit City’s advertisement, with nearly all of the desktops and many of the notebooks running 64-bit Windows

Gateway, for example, is shifting to an entirely 64-bit Windows lineup on its desktops, starting with the back-to-school shopping season.

It’s a dramatic shift even from last quarter, in which only about 5 percent of its total desktop and notebook models had a 64-bit OS installed. For the third quarter, 95 percent of desktop models and 30 percent of notebook systems will have a 64-bit OS.

Among the factors leading to the shift are the fact that 64-bit machines, unlike their 32-bit brethren, can directly address more than 4GB of memory

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Here’s a rock band video (vista street Band) in YouTube produced by Microsoft trying to pitch vista to users. what do you think?

Asus now offers Eee PC buyers a choice between Linux and Windows. So just how good (or how bad) is the little laptop when it comes pre-loaded with XP?

Asus has big plans for its little laptop and to the dismay of purists
and Penguinistas, those plans centre on Windows. The company expects to
sell five million Eee PCs this year, and Asus CEO Jerry Shen predicts
that “about 60 percent of these” will run XP rather than the Xandros OS
with which the mini-note debuted.

Of course, Eeenthusiasts have been installing XP and assorted Linux
versions (most commonly Ubuntu, for which there’s now a bespoke version
known as eeeXubuntu) even since this pint-sized portable was released.
But that’s not a path for the mainstream, many of whom are attracted by
the Eee PC’s price, weight and form factor but wary of the fact that it
doesn’t have that familiar face of Windows, and nor can it run the same
software they already use day to day.Read the rest of this entry…

People never said they love their Coke.  But when Coke tried to come up with a new formula they rebelled.

In the tech world, you hear people say they love Mac, or they are passionate about Linux.  Very seldom in Windows — it was just the operating system that was there, and worked.  Now, people are saying they really want it!

Their passion is Windows XP - Yahoo! News

No matter how hard Microsoft works to persuade people to embrace Vista, some just can’t be wowed. They complain about Vista’s hefty hardware requirements, its less-than-peppy performance, occasional incompatibility with other programs and devices and frequent, irritating security pop-up windows.

For them, the impending disappearance of XP computers from retailers, and the phased withdrawal of technical support in coming years, is causing a minor panic.

SMBs grasp Vista nettle | Channel Register

Windows Vista appears to be gaining ground among organisations, with small businesses (SMBs) proving particularly keen to adopt the software giant’s latest operating system, according to a new report.

US reseller CDW Corp tracked Vista adoption from 31 October to 7 November 2007 and found that 53 per cent of those firms that had tested or implemented the OS were SMBs.

Of course, one explanation for the sudden spike in popularity among SMBs could be that they are less likely to have IT departments that will test and advise on products. They are also more likely to buy on an ad hoc basis, from the likes of Dell or CompUSA, and will use whatever is supplied on the machine.

Microsoft Corp. will change how users activate Windows XP when Service Pack 3 launches in the first half of 2008, a company white paper said.

New installations of Windows XP SP3 will give users the same 30-day grace period currently offered to Windows Vista customers before they’re required to enter a product activation key, the 25-character code that proves the copy is legitimate.Computerworld

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» OS market shares: Win XP - 79.32%, Vista - 7.38%, Mac OS - 3.38% | IT Facts | ZDNet.com

According to NetApplications, Windows XP remains the dominant operating system in the world in September 2007, followed by Windows Vista with 7.38% and Mac OS with 3.38%.

Q&A: Microsoft no longer a ‘laughingstock’ of security, Charney says

As corporate vice president of Trustworthy Computing (TwC) at Microsoft Corp., Scott Charney is among those at the helm of the company’s long-standing efforts to improve the security of its products. In an interview with Computerworld, Charney — a former federal prosecutor of computer crimes and an assistant district attorney in the Bronx before that — talked about TwC, the changing threat environment and what security fears keep him awake at night.

» CCTV surveillance market to grow 12.4% | IT Facts | ZDNet.com

The global CCTV market is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 12.4% for the period spanning from 2005 to 2008. However, the global demand for conventional CCTV systems is showing downward trend with the escalating demand for IP-based CCTV surveillance.

» 34.9% of EMEA developers used C# at some point | IT Facts | ZDNet.com

The total number of developers using C# has increased 40% during the in 2006 in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), Evans Data reports. In 2006 the number of developers using C# any part of the time was 25.1%, and in 2007 that number has risen to 34.9%. In addition, the% of developers using C# more than half the time has also risen by forty% from 9.4% to 13.2%.