Andy Patrizio

By tradition, Microsoft tries to take old operating systems off the market six months after the release of a new one, but Windows XP continues to live on, almost two years following the release of Windows Vista. For the third time since Vista’s release in January 2007, Microsoft has pushed out XP’s availability by granting […]

Editing a Word document through Internet Explorer. Click to enlarge. Source: Microsoft Microsoft is announcing Office Web applications, lightweight versions of its main Office applications that will run in any Web browser. The news comes during day two of its Professional Developer’s Conference, the two-year developer confab for all kinds of Microsoft platforms and products. It also is […]

Intel has announced the Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) draft specification, revision 0.9, is now available for review, making USB 3.0 one step closer to reality. The news comes just ahead of the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco next week. The USB 3.0 architecture was first demonstrated at last year’s IDF show and is […]

Much has been made about Windows XP fading into the sunset at the same time as co-founder Bill Gates leaves his full time position at the software giant. Microsoft has already extended the life of the aging operating system once, and will continue to offer it for ultra-mobile PCs. However, if you really must have […]

The problem with laptops seeming to grow legs and walk away from their owners dominates the minds of IT administrators and the public alike. After all, maybe your personal data was sitting on that laptop that was stolen, lost or otherwise misplaced, which could mean major disruption of your life or even identity theft. After […]

Adobe Systems has announced the public beta of Adobe Photoshop Express, a free, rich Internet application (RIA) version of its flagship image editing application but usable via a Web browser. During the beta process, Adobe will solicit users for feedback on product features and functionality and will update the application with user ideas as well […]

Trend Micro is branching out from its anti-malware roots to offer an e-mail archiving solution for mid-sized businesses running Microsoft Exchange 2003 servers. Trend Micro Message Archiver (TMMA) stores and compresses e-mail on its own server, allowing for the storage load to be reduced on the mail server while retaining a fast, searchable archive of […]

Notebooks often take more physical abuse than a rental car, and that’s by their owners who paid for them. In some cases, the laptop may find itself in harsh surroundings; with a South Pole expedition, in a Marine unit in Iraq, or with missionaries in Africa. There aren’t that many choices for laptops that can […]

Intel plans to make a splash next month’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The chipmaker will show off new mobile platforms, flash memory and high-speed wireless networking products at the giant consumer electronics show. Because of CES’s focus on consumer products, the devices on display will have a more mass-market appeal, but there […]

Dell is announcing a refresh to its server line that offers some major changes to more than just the processor. As part of its server refresh, Dell is changing its modeling and numbering scheme. Servers now start with an R, T or M for Rack, Tower or Modular, followed by three digits. The first indicates […]

Seagate has introduced the first in what it expects will be the future direction of hard disk technology, drives that use NAND Flash memory as an extra-large cache. The launch comes as vendors are experimenting with integrating solid-state, all-Flash drives into their PC disk storage offerings. SanDisk, for instance, recently announced plans for a solid-state […]

Saying that the small to medium-sized business market has been “underserved,” Dell today introduced a new storage system especially for the sector. The problem, according to Dell CEO Michael Dell, is that SMB-oriented storage is either stripped down, crippled versions of their enterprise product, or the enterprise product scaled down slightly by still expensive. “It […]