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Submission + - The Palm OS ends with a whimper

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PetManimal

on Sunday May 20, 2007 @09:29PM

PetManimal writes: "Computerworld has reviewed the Palm Treo 755p, the last Palm device with the Palm OS, and concludes that the OS is going out with a whimper, rather than a bang. The article says there are some useful improvements (better integration with Exchange and IM, limited speech recognition, etc.) but 'nothing that will make you sit back and say "wow."' Palm already has at least one device with Windows Mobile (the 700w) and soon will make a big push to Linux devices, maybe by the end of the year. But the Palm OS, which was top dog for a while back in the 1990s, and is still used by many people who own Palm Pilots or Treos, is going to quickly fade, it seems"

Comment It's awesome, but not for the reasons they say... (Score 1) 435

by Number_1_Bigg$ on Thursday May 10, 2007 @01:04AM (#19063051) Attached to: A Chip on DVDs Could Prevent Theft

Remember when you take a DVD home, and it has those sticky things along the outside that are a bitch to get off? Now that can be removed at the store, so they can deactivate the chip thingie. Seems like a decent trade to me, I hate that stuff.

Submission + - VMWare Rolls Out Vista Virtualization

Submitted by MsManhattan on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @02:13AM

MsManhattan writes: VMWare Inc. today is slated to introduce a new version of its workstation virtualization software that supports Windows Vista. The upgrade, VMWare Workstation 6, enables users to run Vista as a host or a guest operating system. Additionally, it allows users to store a virtual machine setup on a portable device — like as a USB drive — and transfer the set-up to another computer. Virtualization, an old concept that has gained new momentum, can help organizations optimize their infrastructures but it can also create expensive management headaches. IT organizations should resist vendors trying to sell them on third-party management of their virtualized data centers, notes Thomas Bittman, a Gartner analyst. "There are still [problems] with virtualization in support and software licensing and not everything can be virtualized," he says. On a positive note, "This will clear-up over the next two to four years," Bittman adds. Gartner predicts that three millions virtual machines will be in use by 2009, up from today's 500,000.

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