Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:06 PM EST
Lost in all the hoopla about Vista this week was this post about a delay to the code that links Vista clients to Microsoft popular Small Business Server 2003 edition.
A month long delay may not be all that big a deal, but if Vista is likely to gain an early acceptance it will be among small business customers that tend to be fond of SBS because it's realtively easy to install, maintain and run.
You might think that Microsoft would have all the small business issues surrounding Vista under contol by now, but like everything else in Redmond these days it seems that there are so many dependencies between products that making any of the trains run on time is just impossible -- Michael Vizard
Wednesday, March 07, 2007 2:49 PM EST
Google is developing a program to help eggheads exchange huge amounts of data. The search giant's open source team is working on ways to physically transfer huge data sets up to 120 terabytes in size. Good thing, too: Recent research from IDC suggests that the world generated 161 billion gigabytes -- 161 exabytes -- of digital information last year. That's 3 million times the information in all the books ever written.
Monday, April 30, 2007 1:55 PM EST
Apple has admitted that "some batteries" in its range of MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops have "performance issues." The company issued a software update and has offered to replace defective batteries. Reports of problems, including swollen batteries, have been circulating since the laptops were launched in 2006.