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The Story No One Cares About: PC Sales at lowest number since 2007

CTOvision

The analyst firm IDC reports that worldwide PC shipments in 2015 were about 300 million units, on par with 2007 numbers. Bob Gourley. The PC market continued to face persistent challenges from longer-PC lifecycles and competition from mobile phones and tablets, despite the slowing growth in those markets.

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Jama Software to be acquired for $1.2B in significant exit for Portland-based company

GeekWire

Founded in 2007 by Eric Winquist , Jama makes software used to build complex products and mission-critical systems, including projects with high levels of complexity and regulation, often combining hardware and software in engineering groups that span multiple disciplines.

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Nvidia DLSS added to Crysis Remastered, System Shock remake demo

TechSpot

The first game in the Crysis series debuted in 2007 and was a visual masterpiece. It was also very taxing on PC hardware of the era, resulting in the popular, “But can it run Crysis?” The remastered version launched on September 18, 2020, on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and.

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Crysis Remastered's top graphics setting is called "Can it Run Crysis?" Crytek releases 4K screenshot

TechSpot

came about following the first game’s release in 2007. Few PCs at the time could handle the FPS, especially at higher settings, and hardware right up until a few years ago still struggled. As most PC owners know, “Can it Run Crysis?”

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. May 2007: Autonomy spins off its Blinkx consumer software unit in an IPO. July 2007: Autonomy pays $375 million for content archiving and electronic discovery specialist Zantaz.

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Open Mesh Hits Two Important Milestones

IT Toolbox

The company has been around since 2007, and is in the business of offering SMBs, hospitability, and other spaces a unique combination: a really good web management interface for both access points and switches and relatively inexpensive hardware all with no licensing. There aren’t many stories out there like Open Mesh.

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Every PC can now run Crysis

The Verge

The vast majority of PCs on the market today, and even some of the budget gaming PCs that existed in 2007, can run Crysis by streaming it from GeForce Now. The original Crysis , released in 2007, had a reputation for having high system requirements, and struggled to run on many PCs at the time of its release. But can it run Crysis ?”