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Microsoft Pluton: New chip design draws lessons from Xbox to make Windows PCs more secure

GeekWire

A new architecture for computer processors, unveiled by Microsoft this morning under the name “Pluton,” will take security technologies that currently exist in a separate hardware component in Windows PCs and integrate them directly into the central processing unit, promising a major advance in security.

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Windows 11 will leave millions of PCs behind, and Microsoft is struggling to explain why

The Verge

Microsoft’s big security push is complicated Microsoft has had six years to prepare for the launch of Windows 11, but the company is still struggling to explain its new hardware requirements. It’s an unusual surprise if you purchased a new PC for Windows 10, or perhaps you have a perfectly capable machine that’s even older.

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2013 may FINALLY be the year of VDI and BYOD

Virtualized Greek

I am thinking that maybe 2013 will finally be the year of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) enabled BYOD. This is not because of some fancy new feature in VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop but due to a new feature of Windows 8. I said a LONG TIME ago that Windows 8 should be a hypervisor based OS.

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Big Sur is officially macOS 11.0 as Apple finally leaves OS X behind

The Verge

back in September of 2000, as a successor to Mac OS 9, the last of the “classic” Apple operating systems that dated back to the original Macintosh in 1984. Microsoft even had began to follow suite, with the company declaring back in 2015 that it viewed Windows 10 as the “ final version of Windows.”. End of an era.

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Vendor Meetings at VMworld 2013

Scott Lowe

To take advantage of high-capacity flash in the memory bus, Diablo supplies drivers for all the major operating systems (OSes), including ESXi, and what this driver does is modify the way that page swaps are handled. At that point, the system DRAM almost looks like another level of cache. Vendor Meetings at VMworld 2013.

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Windows 7 launch notes : spf13.com

SPF13

Windows 7 launch notes. windows mail, movie maker now separate downloadable install. windows 7â?²s For the first time in the history of windows we have a new version that takes less resources than the prior version. can view entire library in one window. windows API code pack.net wrappers for the c++, c wrappers.

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Technology Short Take #84

Scott Lowe

When I joined the NSX team in early 2013, a big topic at that time was overlay protocols (VXLAN, STT, etc.). Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. Networking.

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