Windows 7 Promises Big Improvements in Battery Life – News and Analysis by PC Magazine

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Sep 022009
 

From PC Magazine…

Windows 7 Promises Big Improvements in Battery Life – News and Analysis by PC Magazine: “by Mark Hachman
Improvements in both the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system and Intel’s upcoming Westmere processors will result in significant increases in battery life, executives said in a press conference on Tuesday.

In a demonstration of two identically configured ThinkPads T400s, Intel and Microsoft claimed that a Windows XP SP2 machine consumed on average 20.2 watts, while the Windows 7 machine consumed 15.4 watts. That translated to about 1.4 hours of additional battery life, executives said.”

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Word 2010: Better design, more stability | Microsoft Office | TechRepublic.com

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Sep 012009
 

From TechRepublic…

Word 2010: Better design, more stability | Microsoft Office | TechRepublic.com: “Word 2010, the upcoming release of the world’s most popular word processor, includes some new features and carries over some existing ones from Word 2007. Here’s a look at what you can expect.”

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Five Windows command prompt tips every IT pro should know | TR Dojo | TechRepublic.com

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Sep 012009
 

From TechRepublic…I recommend the video on this one.

Five Windows command prompt tips every IT pro should know | TR Dojo | TechRepublic.com: “F1 retypes the previous command one character at a time
F2 brings up a dialog and asks “Enter the char to copy up to:”
F3 retypes the last command in full
F4 brings up a dialog and asks “Enter char to delete up to:”
F5 as for F3
F6 Print EOF character (Ctrl Z)
F7 brings up a dialog of all the recent command history
F8 brings up each of the most recent commands, one at a time
F9 brings up a dialog and asks “Enter command number:””

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Five Resume Musts For Future CIOs – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership

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Aug 312009
 

From CIO.com…

Five Resume Musts For Future CIOs – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership: “By Martha Heller

August 25, 2009 — CIO —

Compared to the route to CFO, the CIO career path is all over the place. CIOs come out of IT, operations, marketing and more recently, I am finding, out of finance. So if you were to offer advice on how to achieve the dream CIO career, what would you say?

I spoke to three CIOs who have not only traveled their own, unique career trajectories, they’re actively engaged in growing the CIOs of future. I asked them: If you were to write the r�sum�of tomorrow’s CIO, what would it include?”

 Posted by at 7:44 pm

VirtualBox

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Aug 312009
 

This was Paul Thurrott’s software pick of the week on the most recent edition of Windows Weekly.

VirtualBox: “VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See ‘About VirtualBox’ for an introduction.”

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