Technology trends

August 20, 2008 · Filed Under Techno-Bab · Comment 
  1. ZDNet reports that antivirus software moves out of your computer to a network cloud.

    This next-generation antivirus system ‘virtualizes and parallelizes detection functionality with multiple antivirus engines, significantly increasing overall protection,’ according to the team leader. Even if the results look promising, it should be noted that this is just an academics project for the moment.

    Read more…

  2. Do you need an operating system to load (forever sometimes…) for your minimum functionality of seeing your emails, look up your calender for schedules and write a few letters? No, as the “instant ON” and other technologies that Intel and Dell are putting on the PCs. OS is going to be one of the applications that will run on the hardware “as required”. So the days of OS being the fundamental veda of the computer are getting numbered!

    Read about the “end run around the OS” on ZDNet.

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Latest is not always the best!

October 10, 2007 · Filed Under Techno-Bab · 1 Comment 

Are you an “Upgrade freak”, itching to bung in the “latest” apps and brag about it to your buddies?

Bad VistaStop to think for a while. Consider the fate of those suckers who went ga-ga about Windows Vista and ended up shredding the Vista CD and reverting quietly to Good ol’ XP. (Psst…. Microsoft has finally got the hint, to wit, realized that Vista is a fiasco and is quietly providing upgrades to XP.)

Do not rush to upgrade to latest versions of proggies, before they are fully tested and proven to be bug-free. Think, why should you be the fall guy to be straddled with a buggy trashcan!

Now the same message through a video!


YouTube - Watch - Vista Sucks!

Read PCWorld’s crotchety columnist Steve Bass and his compatriots’ wise words on why they’re loathe to upgrade their favorite apps.

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