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We knew
good and well Microsoft was gearing up to drop a pre-beta release of
Windows 7 in developers' laps at its Professional Developers Conference, but now we're being treated to a host of details from Redmond itself. For starters, it's showing off (for the first time, mind you) its new Web applications for Office. As you'd expect, said apps are "lightweight versions of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote that are used from within standard web browsers." According to Ray Ozzie, chief software architect at Microsoft, it's aiming to bring "the best of the web to Windows, and the best of Windows to the web." 'Course, we're also told about improved navigation, a new taskbar (preview shown), support for multi-touch gestures,
Device Stage and enhanced AV integration -- all things that have our interest decidedly piqued. Hit the read link for the full spill direct from the horse's mouth.
Microsoft details pre-beta release of Windows 7 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under global mobile computing, vivienne tam, netbooks, tier vendors, global mobility, mini 1000, netbook, life cycles, compas, global markets, emerging markets, price tag, related news, clutch, denial, laptops, atom, intel, array, hp |
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Here in the US of A, most netbooks come stocked with a predictable array of hardware: a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 80GB HDD, 1GB of RAM and a price tag ranging from $399 to $699. Elsewhere on the planet, things are a bit different, and if
VIA has anything to say about it,
it will be the name people think of when hearing "
netbook" in Asia and beyond. Said outfit has just cranked up a Global Mobility Bazaar program to "drive [global] mobile computing adoption," and it has already managed to pull 15 companies (including Microsoft, for a little thing called WinXP) onboard. In essence, the program will enable second-tier vendors to get in the netbook game and offer products with shorter life cycles and lower prices -- both of which are mighty useful in emerging markets. In somewhat related news, we're also hearing a sketchy report that HP has chosen the Intel route for its future netbooks, and considering that the
Vivienne Tam Digital Clutch has already selected Intel, we suppose the forthcoming
Mini 1000 will likely be the real confirmation / denial.
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Liliputing]
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VIA teams with Microsoft to drive low-cost netbooks in global markets originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under teardown, vaio, battery life, sy, champagne, ly, laptops, laptop, gap |
While the price might be the most notable -- and welcome -- aspect of Sony's
VAIO X showing tonight, we were also privy to our first look of the laptop in champagne, the incredibly odd extended battery, which actually creates a bit of a gap between itself and the rear of the laptop, and even Sony's own little teardown of the components. We'd be a bit more grumpy about that big "14 hour" wedge, given that the regular battery only gets about 3 hours of quoted battery life, but since Sony is selling the laptop with both of them in the box, we can't complain too much.
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VAIO X spotted in champagne, propped up by extended battery, ripped apart originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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How light is Sony's carbon fiber X Series, miraculously the cheapest ultraportable you can buy at $1300? It feels fake, like a trick. It makes you question how skinny is too skinny, how much...
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Posted by on under nforce chipset, chipset business, cpu manufacturers, delicate line, solutis, mths, compas, hiatus, nvidia, pc magazine, laptops, walks, processors, intel, attitude, nbsp, shock |
It's been about two months since NVIDIA called
rumors that it was leaving the chipset business "groundless," so perhaps it's no big shock that
PC Magazine is now reporting that the company is putting its nForce chipset line "on hiatus." On hiatus, that is, until the company gets a few
sticky legal questions out of the way, including whether or not its four-year deal with Intel
covers Core i7 processors. Thus we have the delicate line that NVIDIA walks with Intel: for the time being, the two companies need each other, but they don't have to like each other, and as the latter continues to pursue
graphics integration with the CPU, manufacturers are going to be increasingly pushed towards all-Intel solutions. All this leads us to wonder if NVIDIA might decide chipsets in general are more trouble than they're worth, especially considering
Intel's general attitude about them -- and whether ION might be the next on the block.
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NVIDIA halting chipset development after all originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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