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Microsoft trotted out some of its biggest customers on Tuesday to make its case that it still makes sense to spend money on software in a tough economy. The gathering of invited corporate IT users here is designed to serve as the beginning of the business push for Windows 7, which is already available to larger businesses and goes on sale to consumers and small businesses on October 22.
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Ageing PCs and Windows 7 will prompt companies to start spending again on computers next year, the CEO of the world’s largest chipmaker said in an interview reported by the Financial Times on Friday. Intel’s Paul Otellini was quoted as saying: “I think corporations’ capital budgets got clamped down fairly aggressively at the end of last year. But in terms of PC refresh I would expect that now to happen in 2010.”
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As any World Of Warcraft player knows, Wednesday is patch-day. Generally the servers are not accessible from the outside world. During that time Blizzard will run routine maintenance or perform critical updates. Today was special though, it was the release of patch 3.2. There is so much good that came from this, so many surprises, so many good many rumours arising from what went on in the PTR’s… Well one thing that got allot of us by surprise – the user interface problem on computers running the Intel 965 Mobile Chipset.
This had caught me completely off guard as never before has a WoW update clashed so severely with a driver. I personally use a Dell Inspiron 1525. It is far from a gaming laptop, but it gets the job done and allows for a bit of Warcraft or maybe a quick mission on Swat. This particular notebook, as well as many others is shipped with the Intel chipset that had issues.
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Customers investing in new IBM X3550M2 or X3650M2 servers over the coming months can expect a substantial increase in the performance level and power-efficiency that these mission-critical servers were previously able to offer.
That’s because these platforms have become available with the much-vaunted server editions of Intel Core i7, better known as the Nehalem processor, the top number-crunching unit available when it comes to raw processing power and power-efficiency.
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