technology - "computer"

Alternative would involve a transaction with Yahoo but not an acquisition of all of Yahoo....TAKE CONTROL OF REMOTE COMPUTERS Support, configure and install applications and updates remotely for greater efficiency.

Since 1993, Microsoft has been struggling to maintain its leadership position as the Internet has grown ubiquitous.

An anonymous reader writes 'This article suggests that Windows Solitaire may be the most-often played computer game. It's not so much an article about Solitaire, but rather an article about Windows and human nature and socialization. If you play FreeCell, there's a interesting paragraph about its inventor.' Can Solitaire really eat up more hours than have been sacrificed to Tetris? of this story at Slashdot.

Racketiciel writes 'A French user asked for a refund after buying a ASUS computer that came with Windows XP and other software pre-installed. ASUS tried to apply a procedure which cost more money to the consumer that they will give back ... The court ruled in favor of the user, who received back 130 Euro (~200 $) for the software. Here is the ruling (PDF, French). In France, this is the fourth victory for refund seekers during the last two years, and many people are now filing for refunds (in French). Two French associations (AFUL and April) published a press release on this victory the same day a important hearing happened.' The English-language press release linked above gives a pretty good idea of what happened here, for those unsuited to wading through French. of this story at Slashdot.

Back when Windows Vista was still known as Windows Longhorn, the operating system contained a very interesting and promising feature, a feature promoted as one of the 'pillars' of Longhorn: WinFS. WinFS was a storage subsystem for Windows, based on a relational database, that could contain whatever data you wanted to put in it. Thanks to the relational properties of the database, you could then create relationships between data, or let the computer do that for you.

Berlin - Energy consumption is increasingly a factor for consumers deciding on which computers, monitors, printers, and other high-tech products to buy. The German Association of Information Sciences, Telecommunications, and New Media (BITKOM) in Ber...

An invisible law makes it impossible for a company in the computer business to enjoy pre-eminence that spans two technological eras.

Since 1993, Microsoft has been