Video gaming is going gangbusters. This as a new report reveals massive global gaming demand, with more than half of the global population—52%—now playing games and the majority of them—fully 77%—playing multiplayer games.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery provider Databarracks has bid farewell to Windows 7 with a Viking funeral. Databarracks’ managing director Peter Groucutt commented:
“On the 14th of January, support for Windows 7 ends and when a well-loved operating system reaches end of life, we like to mark the occasion. Five years ago, when Windows Server 2003 was retired we launched it into space. For Windows 7, we opted for a Viking funeral.
The 1994 Knight-Ridder video I attached at the bottom of this post is a fantastic reminder that the tablet predates the iPad and Android tablet by many decades. During the "hypermedia" era of the late 1980's, I can recall taking a "tech of the future" class where my professor discussed in similar detail what a tablet might look like in the future. He described a day where students would be sitting under trees reading not from paper books but utilizing exactly what we know today as the digital tablet.
Believe it or not though, the origins of the tablet computer date back to the 19th century.
I usually spend my weekends writing a few drafts for articles that I'm going to post for CMS Report. The idea is that I'm not competing with the hectic pace I usually find myself in during the weekdays. Well, I found myself distracted from the usual writing endeavor for two reasons: 1) Microsoft's Virtual PC 2007 and 2) the snow finally melting leaving a nice warm weekend to be outside. Needless to say, not much time was spent with the computer. However, let's talk about Microsoft and something they finally did right.
A focus lately has been on the fact that you can run Windows inside of an Apple Mac through virtualization. What the commercials don't talk about is that you can also run the same type of software, such as Parallels, to also run the Linux OS inside your Mac. Since Microsoft Windows and Linux are the primary operating systems I use at work, the ability to run the two operating systems together is of interest to me. In fact that interest is so great that for the first time in a decade I've been considering to buy a Mac at home.
During the past five years I've been dual-booting between Windows and Linux on my PCs both at home and work. However, there are inconveniences with dual-booting due to the the constant need to reboot your machine to get to the other operating system. This better method is virtualization and something Apple has been promoting the past year or so to lure in Windows users to their computers. Now Microsoft's free Virtual PC has arrived and I think it is about to change my world.
