Monthly Archives: March 2009
Microsoft Vista SP2 Comes with Few Significant Upgrades
Microsoft officials March 5 followed through on their February promise to quickly deliver a Release Candidate for Service Pack 2 for both Windows Vista...
It May Be Time to Abandon Adobe
When you budget time this coming Patch Tuesday (March 10) don't forget to leave some in for the following day, March 11, when Adobe...
IBM in Layoff Crosshairs
Is IBM deliberately scaling back American jobs for foreign ones? Is Big Blue trying to keep news of layoffs out of the press and...
Clearwire Sets More WiMax Rollouts
Even as the financial losses pile up, its stock price drops and the credit market is tight to nonexistent, Clearwire said March 5 it...
Palm Investor Says Pre Versus Apple iPhone Is No Contest
When the Apple iPhone hits its two-year anniversary in June, Palm plans to release its highly anticipated Pre smartphone, which a major Palm investor...
PC Makers Hit Hard by Economy, Shipments Expected to Stay Down
Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Acer, and Lenovo all felt the full impact of the economic slowdown in the fourth quarter of 2008, as PC sales slipped,...
Microsoft: Turning Off IE 8 in Windows 7 a New Option
Microsoft has made changes to the upcoming Release Candidate version of Windows 7 that will enable users to turn off key features of the...
Can Virtualization Make Red Hat Linux Desktop Pay?
My comrade-in-Labs Cameron Sturdevant is writing about the lukewarm attitude that Microsoft appears to have toward virtual desktop infrastructure. To be sure, we at...
Apple Fixes AirPort Base Station, Time Capsule Security Flaws
Apple plugged three security holes in the latest update of its AirPort Base Station and Time Capsule products, including a serious vulnerability in the...
eWEEK Labs First Look at Microsoft Windows Vista SP2 RC
eWEEK Labs First Look at Microsoft Windows Vista SP2 RC
by Andrew Garcia
No SP
Service Pack 2 for Vista is not cumulative. If you try to...