Microsoft had a program in Office 2000 (Premium Edition) called PhotoDraw. Apparently, it was not popular enough as Microsoft discontinued PhotoDraw.

But they really need to pick a better name. :/

It's god awful slow on Win7/IE8 as well.

Well it's about time Windows finally got around to having that ability. I've only been burning ISO's to disc with Disk Utility on Mac OS X 10.x for forever now.

But what about the front of the car that takes out your legs? Plus, the airbag at the windshield seems like it wouldn't help since it's barely above the hood across the center.

My ISP has SMTP authentication enabled. :) Earthlink.

Brilliant! :)

I personally know a guy that owns a web design service & consultancy with $100k/yr in revenue. Of course, he does much more than simple HTML pages. I know he has done things in ASP and PHP, maybe some other tech as well.

We have a lot of people still balking over the switch from GroupWise to Exchange Server. There were some nice features of GroupWise that Exchange does not support.

This is the health care industry - much like the military we don't go with OSes that are as new as Vista. Many of our industry specific apps have not been properly tested on Vista, and we even have a webapp still in use that is not supported under IE7.

This is crazy... I mean here at my workplace (a hospital) we just rolled out Windows XP this past September. We dumped Win2k & Novell Netware for XP and Active Directory. We won't be upgrading for a long time yet.

I have a couple of old dual Xeon systems (32 bit/no hardware virtualization) that did well running VMware ESXi Server. I easily ran 4 VMs on those older CPUs without them breaking too much of a sweat. However, I quickly found that the bottleneck was hard disk performance. (A pair of Ultra160 SCSI 10kRPM drives...).

Disk I/O is still the bottleneck for me. These days I've got a dual quad-core Xeon 64-bit system w/ 16GB RAM & 4x500GB SATA HDDs attached to the onboard SAS controller. As far as CPU & RAM are concerned I can pretty much do *anything* I want, but I find that disk I/O is the limiting factor. More than 2 VMs per spindle (or RAID volume) and you'd better not have disk intensive apps on those VMs sharing that spindle. I am sure that if I had 10kRPM Raptors instead of 7200RPM drives it would do better (and 15kRPM SAS drives even nicer) but in the case of Raptors or SAS drives I really can't justify the cost for a "test environment". Which is what the machine really is - a place for me to test out scenarios before putting them into practice.

The more spindles you have to spread your VMs across, the better, and if I'd had more drives in those older Xeon systems I would have spent a lot less time waiting on disk operations to complete! Instead of buying four 500GB drives, I should have bought eight 250GB drives (onboard SAS is 8-port! :D). Oh well...

If you do want to go with a SAS controller on your PCI-X bus, I would like to say that I've had good luck with an LSI 3080X-R PCI-X SAS RAID controller. Linux has good drivers for it. I actually bought it to work with VMware ESXi as ESXi is very particular about it's storage hardware. That LSI card goes for about $180 US on eBay (approx $133 Euros). If you were to buy it at full pop on Amazon or elsewhere it comes to about $291 US (approx $215 EU). I can only find one decent auction on ebay at this time for that card. Here's the link. eBay is where I got mine from, new in box, for $170 US (auctioned on eBay by Buy.com actually).

Let me know when a mobile phone can serve as a CAD workstation, video editing workstation, or other high performance need. We have plenty of those around here where I work. Also need to mention dual wide screen monitors in imaging departments like radiology (they rotate them vertically for x-rays, etc.) It's more likely that thin clients will become the norm again before mobile devices replace desktops. We have a lot of Citrix thin clients here and that number is growing steadily...

aside from their funky BIOS replacement

Ah yes... that would be EFI, and its a likely successor to the BIOS someday in the future (Linux already supports it, MS has support ready for it when the time comes, and I believe EFI is what Sun's current x86_x64 machines use for firmware as well...