Andy Patrizio

Tradition has always held that a new Microsoft operating system meant upgrading your CPU and memory. With the release of Vista this week, you’ve got one more component to consider: your video card. With past operating system releases, video performance wasn’t an issue because the desktop was always 2D. Although there were attempts to fudge […]

Windows Vista won’t be in the public’s hands until next Tuesday, but Microsoft is already preparing for the first service pack. The company has confirmed it is submitting customer feedback for, among other things, what should be in the first service pack. The customer feedback is being solicited through the Technology Adoption Program (TAP), which […]

In the end, Sun learned that Intel inside really matters. It didn’t matter how fast the Niagara processors were. People wanted their Intel machines, and if that was what it took to get Sun servers running Solaris in these companies, then by golly that’s what Sun would do. So even though it offers Niagara and […]

The IEEE’s 802.11 working group has unanimously approved Draft 1.10 of the 802.11n Wi-Fi (define) spec and has sent it to the entire membership of the IEEE for approval. The IEEE has no timeline for when it expects the membership to approve, but if they do, this will be the final 802.11n spec. The approval puts […]

Sun Microsystems today announced a series of product and strategic updates to its Solaris operating system, adding new security and virtualization technologies in a renewed push into the x86 market and against Linux. The new version of Solaris, called Solaris 10 11/06, adds Solaris Trusted Extensions, a data security technology that had previously been sold […]

The trend toward farming out development work to overseas firms has yielded bottom-line profits to most of the firms that have taken the leap of faith, according to an industry survey. The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) surveyed 114 software companies on the subject of offshoring their development efforts. It found 68 of the […]

The CEO’s baton has been passed at Webroot Software, with David Moll, who led the company from a 10 person staff to a 300 person leader in spyware detection in just five years, stepping aside and a McAfee veteran taking the helm. Peter Watkins, former chief operating officer for McAfee (Quote), is now the chief […]

Internetnews.com editors provide an early roadmap for tech’s direction in 2007. As Microsoft enters 2007, it finds itself with a long list of new products to sell across all markets, from consumers to the biggest IT centers, which might prove more challenging than actually developing the products. With the exception maybe of Vista. Beyond just […]

As the year winds down, so will be tens of thousands of Microsoft developers — once Vista is actually out the door and on store shelves. But that’s not all that helped make for an intense year for the tech company based in Washington’s Redmond. Microsoft (Quote) undertook its most ambitious product schedule ever, a monstrous […]

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard further cemented what has always been a strong business partnership with the announcement of a three-year, $300 million agreement to offer an expanded portfolio of enterprise solutions. The two companies said the investment will cover collaborative efforts in solution development, testing, validation, deployment, and joint sales and marketing. This makes HP (Quote) the […]