Archive for Architecture
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SSD drives for Windows 8?
I just found this really cool article from Gizmodo about SSD's (Solid State Drives). The cool part is, they are talking about "Windows 8 will be even better for solid-state storage". What are Solid State Drives? They contrast them with regular hard drives: On a basic level, a hard disk drive ...
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Things I would like to see in Windows 8 – Part 7 – Can we get a decent browser?
OK Microsoft, can we talk? Just between us, this is getting really embarrassing now. Every version of Internet Explorer that gets released seems to be Worse than the last one Much worse than the competition For the love of pete, do what American car manufacturers should have done year...
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Windows 8 to Get Choice Screen for the Default Browser
For the next five years, Microsoft will be serving an update to all supported Windows clients in an attempt to promote end user choice when it comes down to the default browser associated with the operating system. The European Antitrust Commission accepted a solution proposed by Microsoft, designe...
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Roadmap for Windows 8 Server – 2012
Stephen Chapman from msftkitchen has posted a crapload of roadmap diagrams on his site. They seem to indicate the release of Windows 8 Server in 2012. What's funny is he seems to find these roadmaps from very simple and publicly accessible sources.. hilarious ...
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Things I would like to see in Windows 8 – Part 5 – Truly segmented security
Ok so this one is a little easier and more obvious. Advanced security is usually the number one thing people say they want in an operating systems upgrade but I am being a tad more specific. I would like to see the OS designed in such a way that different sections of the code are "isolated" from ea...
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Just what is 128 bit processing anyway for Windows 8?
So there has been a lot of hoopla about 128 bit processing for Windows 8. There has also been speculation that it's all BS and isnt going to happen. Just what is 128 bit processing anyway? Wikipedia defines it as the following: In computer architecture, 128-bit integers, memory addresses, or othe...
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NSA worked with Microsoft on Windows 7, will they work on Windows 8 as well?
Interesting article about the NSA and Windows 7. You can read it here. To excerpt.. The National Security Agency (NSA) worked with Microsoft on the development of Windows 7, an agency official acknowledged yesterday during testimony before Congress. "Working in partnership with Microsoft and el...
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Interesting..Thurrott says no 128 bit Windows 8
Interesting little snippet I saw on the internets today. I was reading through the WinInfo Short Takes: Week of November 16 and I saw something very interesting. It was this quote.. Microsoft confirmed this week that it is already well into the planning and preparation stages for Windows 8, but ...
