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Monday, 07 April 2008 11:43

XP SP3 faster than Vista SP1: report

Is it any surprise than an older operating system performs faster on an identically configured system running the latest and greatest? No – I remember Win 3.1 screaming on machines that ran Windows 95 more slowly, but it’s still great news for XP holdouts.

Published in Fuzzy Logic
I wish Microsoft would get their story straight on Windows 7, the successor to ‘the wow starts now’ of Windows Vista. Why? Because the company says 2010, while Bill Gates – still the official man at the top, says it’s coming ‘in the next year or so’. Which is it?!

Published in Fuzzy Logic
A software upgrade to 2.5G EDGE networks promises download data speeds of ‘up to’ 592Kbps, rivalling 3G networks, but will today’s iPhones, Blackberries, Nokias and other EDGE phones be able to access it?

Published in Networking
If you’ve got iTunes installed on your Windows XP computer, you’ve also got the ‘Apple Software Updater’ installed. It’s there to ensure you’re always informed of the latest iTunes update, but now it will also have Safari 3.1 ‘ticked’ by default, ready to download and install when you click the ‘install’ button. Is this right - or wrong?

Published in Fuzzy Logic
I’d only just updated my iPhone to 1.1.3 and unlocked it using Zibri’s ZiPhone software when the 1.1.4 firmware seemed to come out of left field. But now that ZiPhone unlocks iPhone’s 1.1.4 firmware too, it’s well worth the upgrade, which fixed some annoying 1.1.3 Safari problems I was experiencing.

Published in Mobility
Could it be that after years of Windows pricing remaining steady, then going dramatically up with Vista (as hardware prices declined) – that Microsoft has finally learned cheaper prices can actually increase profits?

Published in Fuzzy Logic

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