Bytes in the Margin

This super-early look at Internet Explorer baffles me. The biggest benefit they tout is using the DirectX APi to use hardware acceleration for rendering web pages faster. This is like buying me a faster processor and then giving the credit to IE when pages load faster as a resutl.
Wouldn't a good Window Manager offload that work...

Wow, looks like at least one of my hunches wasn't too far off the mark. Who'd have thought that the Microsoft Marketing hype might have a hard time delivering? I can think of at least two people. HT Gadgetopia
Discussions with a number of ECM practice leads at major SIs (System Integrators) have told me that SharePoint...

I've written before about using Microsoft's IE Application Compatibility Images with VirtualBox. These images provided a very convenient, and free, way to setup testing environments in all versions of Internet Explorer.
The images, since they are free copies of Windows, expire after a time, requiring you to download a new image. The latest images provided by Redmond,...

There are a lot of cases where having one computer just isn't enough. If you're a web developer or webmaster, you'll want to view your website in more than one browser. If you're a PHP programmer, you may be itching to check out the new 5.3 release and test your web applications on it. Using virtualization, ...

Will we see more organizations outsourcing email services? Having run my own personal mail server for a few years, I'd be quite wary of purchasing and operating your own mail servers. Yes, if you own your mail servers, you can make them as secure and redudant as you want if price is no limit. But there's ...