As discontent over Windows Vista (with or without Service Pack 1) continues to swirl, Microsoft is gearing up to launch on February 27 the "other" Windows: Windows Server 2008. Even though it is built ...

The first big question was number 1 – were there going to be driver problems? One of the distinguishing characteristics of 64-bit Server 2008 editions is that the universe of hardware drivers is ...

Wow, a new Mac computer without any fanfare from Apple? That's odd. But this whole situation is an unusual one. Let's start with the departed. Apple has offered a rack-mount Xserve Mac OS X server ...

Don't underestimate the Windows Server System. Sure, it may well cost you an arm and a leg, your first born child and 10% of your earnings for life afterwards, but with the wonder that is DreamSpark, ...

In the previous posting, I hinted at a few additional topics that would be relevant to a discussion of Server 2008 as a workstation operating system. One of those was the issue of power options. Here, ...

GIGABYTE is ready for the new Intel Xeon E3 1200 V5 processors and they’re releasing four new motherboards for them today, all based on the new Intel C230 series chipsets. The new addition to the ...

The idea of early computer users having an entire processor to themselves was just a fantasy. The first computer networks had all the processing power in a central mainframe, or server, to which ...

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