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Microsoft

Submission + - Vista Finally Gets A Gov't Win

An anonymous reader writes: In the past month, Microsoft found the door slammed in its face when it came to getting Windows Vista into the FAA, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Dept. of Transportation. (The DOT also prohibited federal workers from updating their PCs with IE7 and Office 2007.) Now, Microsoft has finally won one. The Department of the Interior seems set on eventually migrating its 70,000-plus PC users to Vista. Still, However, InformationWeek reports that the agency says it still needs to iron out some compatibility issues (which have been plaguing everyone else, too) before it installs the OS. Does this uptake mean that the Vista juggernaut has begun and its widespread adoption is all but inevitable now?
Microsoft

Submission + - Virtualization-friendly Vista license

virtualization_dork writes: "Microsoft's new Vista Enterprise license makes it legal — and cost-effective — to virtualize your desktops using VDI. How? The new licensing scheme, called Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktops (VECD), is instance-based instead of installation-based. Get the details here."
Role Playing (Games)

How Pro Gaming Will Change World of Warcraft 146

1up has a piece looking at the impact that commercial support of WoW Arena teams might have on the game. There are already two teams backed with corporate money, both pulled from prominent PvP guilds in the Bloodlust battlegroup. "It's a challenge to pick teams to sponsor in WoW's PvP: 'The same team that may be ranked #2 or #3 in one Battlegroup may be ranked #1 in another," said Stephen Schoder of Check Six. "this makes the proposition of scouting out the right team more difficult than most other competitive eSports. The arena system in World of Warcraft is much more complicated than the simplistic FPS and RTS games in terms of being able to immediately pick up on what is going on.'"
Robotics

Submission + - UAVs swarm around lone fighter pilot

Space Donkey writes: UK company QinetiQ tested a swarming UAV control system this week, using a Tornado fighter plane to control a passenger jet and several more "virtual UAVs". In addition to cutting the number of pilots risked in military operations, the remote control system could one day also be used to auto-land hijacked planes. Or they might allow lone pilots to orchestrate complex search and rescue operations.

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