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Microsoft: Thousands Of IT Jobs Going Unfilled

By JMH on 31 Jul 2011

Despite the fact that the national unemployment rate is hovering above 9%, hi-tech companies are finding it tougher than ever to fill all of their ope...

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AMD taking microprocessor market share from Intel

By JMH on 31 Jul 2011

Strong demand for Fusion chips helped Advanced Micro Devices take global microprocessor market share from Intel in the second quarter this year, Mercu...

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SSDs are fast, but do they last?

By JMH on 31 Jul 2011

If you use a PC for professional purposes, you need a solid-state drive. Period. The difference in performance is profound, as just about any SSD owne...

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Waiting for Windows 8, DirectX SDK Evolution Freezes

By JMH on 29 Jul 2011

While Microsoft has been hard at work building the next major iteration of Windows, some of the resources provided for Windows 7 and earlier Windows c...

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Firefox 6 Final, Firefox 7 Beta and Firefox 8 Aurora in About 3 Weeks

By JMH on 29 Jul 2011

The next major iteration of Mozilla’s open source browser, Firefox 6, is now less than a month away. In fact, the plan is to release Firefox 6 Final i...

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Windows 8 Tiles For Windows 7

By Conduct on 29 Jul 2011

Metro UI. For all we know will be an integral part of the Windows 8 Operating System. Part of Metro UI is a tile based design that you may have seen o...

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Windows Server 8 Sneak Preview.

By JMH on 29 Jul 2011

We have not really heard a lot about Microsoft’s upcoming server operating system Windows Server 8. Information are hard to come by at this point in t...

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Windows 7 SP1 System Update Readiness Tool

By JMH on 29 Jul 2011

Updated continually by Microsoft, the latest version of the System Update Readiness Tool is designed to play nice with Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1)....

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Mark Russinovich and Aaron Margosis: Introducing Windows Sysinternals Administrator's Reference

By JMH on 29 Jul 2011

Many of you use Sysinternals tools to help you manage computing responsibilities ranging from monitoring/understanding pr

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Fix Windows 7 SP1 USB Storage Device Access Failures

By JMH on 29 Jul 2011

In specific scenarios, customers attempting to access a USB storage device from Windows 7 will be unable to do so. In the eventuality that the process...

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