The Economist de-rails Microsoft media love in
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| Over to you, Rashbass: "It's kind of funny to hear Robbie Bach giving a
| talk on advertising and monetization when he just lost $300m in the
| last quarter." Oh dear.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/02/microsoft_marketing/
Also:
Microsoft super sizes multi-threaded tripe
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| Intel and AMD executives fail to hide their disappointment with
| Microsoft well on the multi-threaded software front.
|
| During a speech last June, Intel SVP Pat Gelsinger said the
| following:
|
| "A couple of years ago, I had a discussion with Bill Gates
| (about the multi-core products). He was just in disbelief.
| He said, 'We can't write software to keep up with that.'"
|
| Gates ordered the Intel executive to keep pumping out faster
| product. "No, Bill, it's not going to work that way," Gelsinger
| informed him.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/01/mundie_mundie/
Still just catch-up work. Trying to make PCs Vista capable (without 4GB of
RAM)? Linux handles these technologies very well. Links below.
Related:
Where's The Software To Catch Up To Multicore Computing?
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| A look at the Top500 Supercomputer Sites List (www.top500.org) shows
| that a large portion of the technical computing workload has moved
| to commodity Linux clusters: commodity servers, commodity
| networks and commodity storage
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197001130
Quad-core on Vista Home, an Intel exclusive
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| According to the tech sheet on ExtremeTech as well as other
| websites, Vista home only supports one physical processor.
| This means that AMD's 4x4 platform, which uses 2 dual-core
| chips, will not work.
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http://clocksarestupid.net/articles/2007/01/21/quad-core-on-vista-home-an-intel-exclusive
http://tinyurl.com/yu2456
Multi-Core Processors Challenging Traditional Software Pricing Models
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| However, Microsoft Corp. hasn't hopped on this train yet; it plans
| to continue to charge per processor for software
|
| [...]
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| Another strategy for CIOs, suggested Giera, would be to consider
| using open-source software as an alternative to commercial software
| during the transition period.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061009/18110_id.html?.v=1n
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