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Vendors Rally While Windows Sleeps
Anti-Globalism sends along a PCWorld article outlining two technologies from Intel and Dell that do an end run around Windows. "Dell, Intel and their partners announced last week new technologies that represent major leaps forward for mobility. The companies seem to have discovered the secret to making such bold leaps: Cut Microsoft out of the deal. One technology involves enabling users to gain instant access to a laptop's e-mail, browser and other basic functionality — without booting Windows at all. The second technology enables an Internet-based message to wake a Windows PC from sleep mode. These new technologies are perfect metaphors for what's happening in the industry... Windows is asleep while Microsoft's own partners give users what they really want."
Put microsoft's hand in warm water while they're at it. We'll get the next version of Windows a year early!
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, watch it -- I'm huge!
This is retarded and sensational.
In other words, perfect front-page material. You must be new here.
Apple is having decent sales in the overpriced, zealot segment.
Windows won't wake, because the buggy chipset drivers mean it's now frozen in standby.
"Anonymous could not immediately be reached for further comment." - International Business Times
...the mighty jungle
The Ballmer sleeps tonight...
Somebody continue...
If you quote this signature there'll be 72 copies of Windows ME waiting for you in Heaven.
Uh, no. They said "instant on". They didn't say power on the machine, wait a while for the JVM to load, and then work.
Bender: black jack... and hookers. In fact - forget the black jack!
And don't get me started on the phrase "do an end run around Windows" when it clearly should be "reach around" - at least that's the only way *I* can enjoy my Microsoft products. :-)
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
No, only I'm New Here
we can wake Windows remotely. This seems like a major security issue if not implemented correctly.
No kidding. Waking Windows locally is already a big enough security issue as it is!
ohhh boy. Cue the posters that scream "Linux is a kernel" :p
You could at least read the article, it's an ARM SoC that serves as a separate UMPC inside the laptop. Kind of like having a N810 inside your laptop if you will.
Didn't you get the memo? We don't RTFA. We simply skim TFS for keywords, and then post with an authoritative tone, as though we had not only read TFA, but had actually authored it AND examined the subject in a PhD thesis.
You must be new here...
"Without Vista, anti-trust law suits and billions of dollars in fines, years of screwing over vendors, customers and anyone else who got in there way, I don't think it would have been possible for Linux to get a foothold."
--there, fixed your fixed it for you.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Did slashdot report when Netware 2.0 came out in 1985 and provided an easy way to do filesharing in MSDOS?
Yes they did, but I can't find it. For some strange reason I can't retrieve Slashdot articles that are older than 10 years or so.
Put microsoft's hand in warm water while they're at it. We'll get the next version of Windows a year early!
I think you might be confusing output ports #1 and #2.
Beta is broken and the link to classic doesn't work. Stop wasting our time or there won't be anybody left here.
* Ubuntu suffers from a "bug" whereby many hard drives will spin down after several seconds of non-use, which kinda reduces the lifespan Vista doesn't have this issue, although it's hard to determine if that's only because the drive is always flashing every so often.
I just love finding "bugs" in software based on observations of the tiny blinky lights!
The last couple of decades have been a bit of a blur to you, haven't they?
i'm reading and replying on my n95 at the breaky table. I dont find it t3h suck at all.
-- $_='ab-bc ratvarre';tr"'a-z'"'n-za-m'";print
Windows... It can be put to sleep though.
Is this like putting it down?
I drank what? -- Socrates