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Friday, May 25, 2007

InfoWorld Daily: A nod in favor of 64-bit Vista

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Friday, May 25, 2007

* A nod in favor of 64-bit Vista
* InfoWorld Daily Podcast
* Lessons of attack on Estonia

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A NOD IN FAVOR OF 64-BIT VISTA

Best of the blogs: The Web is rife with negative reviews of the 64-bit
version of Windows Vista, as Randall Kennedy points out. "So I was
understandably curious how my own transition would unfold," he writes in
64-bits of smooth sailing. Six days and the recreation of his runtime
environment later and Mr. Kennedy only came across 2 incompatibilities:
an unsigned device driver and the Office Web Components from Office
2003. "The overall runtime experience has been far superior to 32-bit
Vista. For example, multitasking -- especially under heavy loads with
SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and several VMware... ...

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LESSONS OF ATTACK ON ESTONIA

Columnist's corner: The tiny country has been under cyber attack for
three weeks now. The aggressor, Estonia's government believes, is
Russia. Such an assault raises all kinds of questions, namely: whether
or not the Kremlin is involved, if such a devastating econo-knockout
punch is comparable to military aggression, and under what circumstances
the U.S. would intervene, David Margulius writes in Cyberpunks: Pick on
someone your own size. "As an IT manager, should you care about Estonia?
Not particularly. Should you care about the possibility of geopolitical
turmoil leading to cyberattacks affecting your company? You bet."
Startups: A crop of companies... ...

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