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Hewlett Packard confirm exit from computing

Friday, 19 August 2011 12:11

Hewlett Packard have confirmed their intention to stop making PC's, tablets and phones and are going to concentrate their business within the software market and developing cloud computing instead.

After making this announcement, Hewlett Packard also stated it's intention to sell it's PC division, and that it will discontinue it's webOS devices. This will remove Hewlett Packard from the consumer market but they still plan to sell servers and other equipment to business users.

Hewlett Packard has also agreed to buy UK software company Autonomy.

This is a stark change in direction for Hewlett Packard who stated back in March that it would include webOS in all of it's hardware.

Having launched it's smartphone Pre it has decided to remove the product, even though last year Hewlett Packard bought mobile maker Palm.

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Microsoft Office 365 Beta Offering

Friday, 27 May 2011 21:29

Microsoft's latest offering of Office (Office 365 ) is available in a beta version to the public sector, Office 365 Beta

This is a service which combines Microsoft Office Web Apps with online versions of their next-generation communications and collaboration service; these are Email and Calendar/Office Web Apps/Websites and Collaboration/IM and Online Meetings.

The user limit for the beta version is set to 25 and when Office 365 becomes generally available your Beta account will automatically activate into trial status. From this date you will have 30 days to decide if you want to purchase a full licence.

If you plan to join the Beta program but have more than 25 employees then you will need to join the enterprises program, Office 365 Beta for enterprises

The current recommended system requirements to run Office 365 (Plan P1) Beta are:

Operating systems

Windows 7
Windows Vista with Service Pack 2
Windows XP with Service Pack 3
Windows XP Home Edition is supported, but it will not support federated identity
Windows XP Media Center Edition is supported, but it will not support federated identity
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, 10.6 Snow Leopard

System software

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (for Windows XP)
Java client 1.4.2 (for Macintosh OS X)

Office clients

Microsoft Office 2010 or Office 2007 Service Pack 2
Office 2008 for Mac and Microsoft Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition
Office 2011 for Mac and Outlook 2011 for Mac
.NET Framework 2.0 or later
Microsoft Lync 2010

Client applications

Services Connector

Browser software—Microsoft Online Portal

Internet Explorer 7 or later
Mozilla Firefox 3.x
Apple Safari 3.x

Browser requirements—Microsoft Outlook Web App

Internet Explorer 7 or later
Firefox 3 or later
Safari 3 or later on Macintosh OS X 10.5
Chrome 3 and later versions
Outlook Web App also has a light version that supports a reduced set of features on almost any browser

The Office 365 Beta service will not run under Internet Explorer 6 or try to to connect with Office 2003

Work on MySQL 5.6 is underway

Monday, 16 May 2011 12:52

The next version of MySQL (5.6) is being built and it's owners Oracle are working at improving the software's performance and replication capabilities.

They are making improvements to the core InnoDB engine and the ability to replicate the database.

The last version of MySQL (5.5) was released in December 2010 and Oracle has not yet set as date for the new release, although a preview version was released last month.

Tomas Ulin, Oracle's MySQL vice president of engineering said that much of the work now under way is going into making the database faster and that Oracle plan to release more milestone beta releases before the finished product is released.

pcworld.com | businesscenter

PlayStation Network struggles after restart

Monday, 16 May 2011 12:16

Due to the amount of people trying to regain access to their accounts and change their passwords, Sony was forced to temporarily shut down the Network again.

A limited service has been restored in most countries and users were asked to reset their passwords when they logged back on.

In order to resolve the issue Sony turned the PlayStation Network off briefly to allow the admin servers to catch up.

"Due to the high volume of emails, some users are experiencing delays receiving their password reset instructions. Thanks for your patience," PlayStation Twitter account.

Sony had earlier announced that a phased restoration process for the PlayStation Network, starting with users from the North American region and could take as long as two weeks to complete, it said.

BBC News | Technology

Windows 7 Release Date

Written by Mike Kershaw

Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:25

The official release date for Windows 7 is 22nd October 2009, there are, however, many businesses already using Microsoft’s latest operating system as these became available through volume licenses.

Microsoft has issued a record number of 13 bulletins for 34 vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday (the second Tuesday of each month, the day on which Microsoft releases security patches), and the first critical update for Windows 7, along with fixes for zero-day flaws for Server Message Block (SMB) and Internet Information Services (IIS).

Other critical patches in the October security bulletin fix a vulnerability in Windows Media Runtime, the fix stops users from potential damage caused by opening malicious media files or from receiving malicious streaming content from either a Web site or an application.

When buying Windows 7 you will find 3 mainstream editions, but Windows 7 actually come in 6 Editions: