IFixit lays bare Microsoft's Kin smartphone
Have you been itching to know what's under the Kin's skin? The helpful demolition experts at iFixit and Chipworks lay it all for you in a step-by-step disassembly of Microsoft's just-introduced, youth-oriented smartphones.
Microsoft's design is a bit bulkier than high-end smartphones like the iPhone and Motorola Droid. It's 0.77 inches thick compared to 0.48 inches for iPhone and a bit thicker for Droid.
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Part of the thickness is due to the fact that the Kin models are slider phones, with two halves sliding apart to show a simple full QWERTY keyboard. The teardown revelas Microsoft uses two springs to keep the halves fully open or fully closed. (Close-up photos from Chipworks are online at iFixit)
Also read: Out-of-this-world iPad has 5 antennas
The heart of the phone is the first-generation mobile chip from Nvidia, the Tegra APX2600. Tegra is the chip vendor's mobile silicon platform, based on an ARM core, with a companion GeForce graphics core and other components. It's been designed for good quality multi-media applications, and Microsoft already uses it in its line of Zune music players.
Later this year, the first smartphones, many of them apparently Android-based, with Nvidia's next generation CPU, the Tegra 2, will become available. The company is also targeting tablets and netbook-style devices. More details can be found at Nvidia's Website.
The onboard camera, a Sony IMX046 with an impressive 8 megapixels, only takes up 0.3 cubic inches. Sony fabricates it with a 90 nanometer CMOS process. Chipworks notes it's one of the first phones to feature 720p High Definition video.
Networking connectivity is provided by a Qualcomm QSC6085 CDMA processor and, for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (and FM radio) a Texas Instruments WL1271A chip. The touchscreen controller is from Synaptics: its Clearpad technology in a device marked T1021A.
Storage is via the Samsung moviNAND KLM8G4DEDD package, based on an advanced 30-nanometer architecture, with up to 8GB of capacity.
* Avago has two chips inside the Kin Two: an ACFM-7103 CS/Cellular/S-GPS Qunitplexer and an ACPM-7353 dual-band power amplifier.
* The camera is the Sony IMX046. The IMX046 is fabricated using a 90nm CMOS process. The camera's resolution is 8.11 effective megapixels (8 active megapixels), 1.4 μm sized pixel, 1/3.2" optical format. Samsung was the first to use this camera in the M8800.
* Taking a cue from the iPhone and Zune HD, the Kin Two has an accelerometer. It's an STMicro 331DL 3 Axis nano MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) device.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
Avaya stares down Microsoft, Cisco
Avaya stares down Microsoft, Cisco
While Avaya's contact center and unified communications announcements last week signal the company wants a dominant position in those areas, it faces internal challenges and formidable competitors including Microsoft and Cisco.
The company is in the midst of digesting and integrating Nortel's enterprise division, which it bought last year for $900 million and from which it expects to reap big returns by next spring. At the same time, it is dealing with the same generally soft economy that other vendors are -- though Cisco is registering surprisingly strong revenue gains.
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Avaya's CEO says the next six to nine months are critical as it tries to integrate the former Nortel Enterprise division -- including network infrastructure and business telephony -- into its fold. The purchase was finalized last December, so the company has just completed its second full quarter since the acquisition. "On most operational details we have the normal first quarter challenges from shipments and logistics. Second quarter things are feeling pretty good, and the litmus test is ahead of us," CEO Kevin Kennedy told Network World in an interview at Avaya's offices.
That test is whether the company can nail down significant long-term commitments from Nortel telephony and contact center customers and lock them into a migration toward Avaya UC. At the heart of that challenge is convincing Nortel customers to buy Avaya Aura, the company's flagship communications server. With Aura customers can step into IP telephony, glue together disparate VoIP systems and -- most significantly for Avaya -- lay the foundation for adopting UC.
Kennedy says Aura can support Session Initiation Protocol trunking immediately to bring cost savings to corporations and over time bring increased productivity that will save money long-term but might have a longer return on investment.
He acknowledges that getting Nortel communications customers interested in sticking with Avaya as they make plans for transitions to UC is key. The company is trying to draw them in with a flurry of announcements about new products, product enhancements and integrations with Nortel products. "This period right now is about bringing a lot of innovation to market. Now the question will be, are our customers as excited about it as we are?" he asks.
The stakes are high since just 17% of Avaya accounts overlap with Nortel's, and competitors are gunning for the rest with attractive deals. "These customers are a pretty loyal base," says Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with Yankee Group. "But they're loyal to Nortel, not Avaya." Historically, until Cisco entered the VoIP market, very few telephony customers shifted from one vendor to another, Kerravala says, and the recent turmoil of Nortel's bankruptcy and Avaya's purchase of its telephony business puts Nortel customers in play.
Surprisingly, the purchase of Nortel by Avaya didn't result in Avaya catapulting to the top of the IP telephony market as some analysts expected. With Nortel and Avaya ranking solidly among the top five for years with very nearly equal shares of the market led people to think combining the two would result in a formidable lead for Avaya, says Matthius Machowinski, an analyst with Infonetics. "We expected them to be ahead of everyone else," he says.
While Avaya's contact center and unified communications announcements last week signal the company wants a dominant position in those areas, it faces internal challenges and formidable competitors including Microsoft and Cisco.
The company is in the midst of digesting and integrating Nortel's enterprise division, which it bought last year for $900 million and from which it expects to reap big returns by next spring. At the same time, it is dealing with the same generally soft economy that other vendors are -- though Cisco is registering surprisingly strong revenue gains.
The Avaya FAQ
Avaya's CEO says the next six to nine months are critical as it tries to integrate the former Nortel Enterprise division -- including network infrastructure and business telephony -- into its fold. The purchase was finalized last December, so the company has just completed its second full quarter since the acquisition. "On most operational details we have the normal first quarter challenges from shipments and logistics. Second quarter things are feeling pretty good, and the litmus test is ahead of us," CEO Kevin Kennedy told Network World in an interview at Avaya's offices.
That test is whether the company can nail down significant long-term commitments from Nortel telephony and contact center customers and lock them into a migration toward Avaya UC. At the heart of that challenge is convincing Nortel customers to buy Avaya Aura, the company's flagship communications server. With Aura customers can step into IP telephony, glue together disparate VoIP systems and -- most significantly for Avaya -- lay the foundation for adopting UC.
Kennedy says Aura can support Session Initiation Protocol trunking immediately to bring cost savings to corporations and over time bring increased productivity that will save money long-term but might have a longer return on investment.
He acknowledges that getting Nortel communications customers interested in sticking with Avaya as they make plans for transitions to UC is key. The company is trying to draw them in with a flurry of announcements about new products, product enhancements and integrations with Nortel products. "This period right now is about bringing a lot of innovation to market. Now the question will be, are our customers as excited about it as we are?" he asks.
The stakes are high since just 17% of Avaya accounts overlap with Nortel's, and competitors are gunning for the rest with attractive deals. "These customers are a pretty loyal base," says Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with Yankee Group. "But they're loyal to Nortel, not Avaya." Historically, until Cisco entered the VoIP market, very few telephony customers shifted from one vendor to another, Kerravala says, and the recent turmoil of Nortel's bankruptcy and Avaya's purchase of its telephony business puts Nortel customers in play.
Surprisingly, the purchase of Nortel by Avaya didn't result in Avaya catapulting to the top of the IP telephony market as some analysts expected. With Nortel and Avaya ranking solidly among the top five for years with very nearly equal shares of the market led people to think combining the two would result in a formidable lead for Avaya, says Matthius Machowinski, an analyst with Infonetics. "We expected them to be ahead of everyone else," he says.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Did Microsoft Kill Cross-Platform Xbox 360 and Windows Play?
Did Microsoft Kill Cross-Platform Xbox 360 and Windows Play?
Last month rumors circulated that Microsoft MCTS Training killed cross-platform Xbox 360 and Windows gameplay.
Why? Because, wrote Voodoo PC founder Rahul Sood on his blog, in internal tests pitting console and PC players against each other, "The console players got destroyed every time... So much so that it would be embarrassing to the XBOX team in general had Microsoft launched this initiative."
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We ran the question by Kevin Unangst, Microsoft Senior Director of PC and Mobile Gaming, to get his reaction to the surprising allegations.
Game On: So did Microsoft really kill cross-platform play between Windows and the Xbox 360, or was it more a developer-initiated death spiral?
Kevin Unangst: It's complete fiction--it never died. The LIVE service has and continues to support cross-platform play between Windows and Xbox 360, and remains the only place where this feature is offered. Ultimately the decision to implement resides with the developers, and we expect to see more in the future.
GO: Did Microsoft run internal studies pitting gamepad players against keyboards/mice opponents?
KU: Absolutely. When we developed Shadowrun, cross-platform play was a brand new technology and we tested it at length to find the right balance for each platform. These tests played a strong role in the development of Shadowrun and included testers who were hardcore Counter-Strike players on PC and Halo players on console. The attention and detail that went in to play balancing between mouse/keyboard and controller was also something that informed a white paper on the subject, which we make available to developers as part of our development tools.
GO: Are Rahul Sood's (of Voodoo PC) comments accurate when he claims the best keyboard/mice players "demolished" the best gamepad players during Microsoft-led play tests?
KU: I can't speak to where Sood got his information, but having seen our tests it's not an accurate generalization. Game design choices can balance or tip the scales--much in the same way that a PC game can be built to use a gamepad or keyboard and mouse, and can implement either or both well or poorly. It's the developer's job to find the right balance.
GO: Can you walk us through the timeline, from the point at which Shadowrun seemed to promise a viable cross-platform future, to today, where cross-platform play seems nonexistent?
KU: In addition to Shadowrun, we also saw cross-platform titles from our partners at Sega and Capcom in Universe at War: Earth Assault and Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition, respectively. These showcase how cross-platform play can be successful in multiple genres, from first-person shooter to real-time strategy.
GO: Will Microsoft MCITP Certification promote cross-platform play in the future? What's ahead for cross-platform play (if anything)?
KU: The definition of "cross platform" is changing rapidly with the rise of social and mobile gaming. We were first to deliver a platform that enabled play between the PC and console, and you can expect us to continue to innovate as the definition evolves.
GO: Thanks Kevin!
Last month rumors circulated that Microsoft MCTS Training killed cross-platform Xbox 360 and Windows gameplay.
Why? Because, wrote Voodoo PC founder Rahul Sood on his blog, in internal tests pitting console and PC players against each other, "The console players got destroyed every time... So much so that it would be embarrassing to the XBOX team in general had Microsoft launched this initiative."
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We ran the question by Kevin Unangst, Microsoft Senior Director of PC and Mobile Gaming, to get his reaction to the surprising allegations.
Game On: So did Microsoft really kill cross-platform play between Windows and the Xbox 360, or was it more a developer-initiated death spiral?
Kevin Unangst: It's complete fiction--it never died. The LIVE service has and continues to support cross-platform play between Windows and Xbox 360, and remains the only place where this feature is offered. Ultimately the decision to implement resides with the developers, and we expect to see more in the future.
GO: Did Microsoft run internal studies pitting gamepad players against keyboards/mice opponents?
KU: Absolutely. When we developed Shadowrun, cross-platform play was a brand new technology and we tested it at length to find the right balance for each platform. These tests played a strong role in the development of Shadowrun and included testers who were hardcore Counter-Strike players on PC and Halo players on console. The attention and detail that went in to play balancing between mouse/keyboard and controller was also something that informed a white paper on the subject, which we make available to developers as part of our development tools.
GO: Are Rahul Sood's (of Voodoo PC) comments accurate when he claims the best keyboard/mice players "demolished" the best gamepad players during Microsoft-led play tests?
KU: I can't speak to where Sood got his information, but having seen our tests it's not an accurate generalization. Game design choices can balance or tip the scales--much in the same way that a PC game can be built to use a gamepad or keyboard and mouse, and can implement either or both well or poorly. It's the developer's job to find the right balance.
GO: Can you walk us through the timeline, from the point at which Shadowrun seemed to promise a viable cross-platform future, to today, where cross-platform play seems nonexistent?
KU: In addition to Shadowrun, we also saw cross-platform titles from our partners at Sega and Capcom in Universe at War: Earth Assault and Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition, respectively. These showcase how cross-platform play can be successful in multiple genres, from first-person shooter to real-time strategy.
GO: Will Microsoft MCITP Certification promote cross-platform play in the future? What's ahead for cross-platform play (if anything)?
KU: The definition of "cross platform" is changing rapidly with the rise of social and mobile gaming. We were first to deliver a platform that enabled play between the PC and console, and you can expect us to continue to innovate as the definition evolves.
GO: Thanks Kevin!
Sunday, August 15, 2010
IE 9 beta release date draws near
IE 9 beta release date draws near
Circle Sept. 15 on your calendars for the beta launch of Windows Internet Explorer 9, as Microsoft executives hop on a quick flight from Redmond down to San Francisco for a kickoff event.
Microsoft’s chief operating officer, Kevin Turner, revealed a September launch at the company’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting July 29, but now we have a specific date.
Invitations went out today for the event, according to a blog post by James Pratt, an IE product manager at Microsoft MCTS Training. Pratt explained that the marketing message around IE 9 is that it delivers “the Beauty of the Web” to your computer.
More than 2.5 million preview versions of IE 9 have been downloaded -- four preview versions total -- since the first preview was released at Microsoft’s MIX10 developer event in Las Vegas back in March. Microsoft has been absorbing feedback from developers using the preview versions to help tweak the product.
Microsoft is boasting that IE 9 is going to be orders of magnitude faster than IE 8. When the fourth preview was released Aug. 4, PC World’s Tony Bradley reported that according to the Acid3 score, a measure of how quickly a browser loads Web pages, the fourth preview hit a 95, versus the IE 8 score of 20. At the core of IE 9 is a new JavaScript engine, codenamed Chakra, that runs natively in the browser “rather than bolting it onto the side to support multiple JavaScript engines as some other browsers do today,” Microsoft explained in a post on the IEBlog Aug. 4. IE 9 is built to support the HTML5 standard for delivering content on the Web.
IE 9 is coming to market just as Microsoft MCITP Certification is regaining its market share against competitors like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera. Internet Explorer held a 60.74 percent share of the market in July, according to NetApplications, after falling below the 60 percent mark in April and May. However, as Network World’s Paul McNamara reports, IE’s market share was as high as 68 percent a year ago and Google Chrome, while at just 7.61 percent, still tripled its market share from 2.59 percent over the same period.
And IE’s competitors aren’t just sitting around moping about how IE is the king of the hill. The Mozilla Foundation released a beta of Firefox 4.0 in July and Google today launched a beta version of Chrome 6.
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Circle Sept. 15 on your calendars for the beta launch of Windows Internet Explorer 9, as Microsoft executives hop on a quick flight from Redmond down to San Francisco for a kickoff event.
Microsoft’s chief operating officer, Kevin Turner, revealed a September launch at the company’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting July 29, but now we have a specific date.
Invitations went out today for the event, according to a blog post by James Pratt, an IE product manager at Microsoft MCTS Training. Pratt explained that the marketing message around IE 9 is that it delivers “the Beauty of the Web” to your computer.
More than 2.5 million preview versions of IE 9 have been downloaded -- four preview versions total -- since the first preview was released at Microsoft’s MIX10 developer event in Las Vegas back in March. Microsoft has been absorbing feedback from developers using the preview versions to help tweak the product.
Microsoft is boasting that IE 9 is going to be orders of magnitude faster than IE 8. When the fourth preview was released Aug. 4, PC World’s Tony Bradley reported that according to the Acid3 score, a measure of how quickly a browser loads Web pages, the fourth preview hit a 95, versus the IE 8 score of 20. At the core of IE 9 is a new JavaScript engine, codenamed Chakra, that runs natively in the browser “rather than bolting it onto the side to support multiple JavaScript engines as some other browsers do today,” Microsoft explained in a post on the IEBlog Aug. 4. IE 9 is built to support the HTML5 standard for delivering content on the Web.
IE 9 is coming to market just as Microsoft MCITP Certification is regaining its market share against competitors like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera. Internet Explorer held a 60.74 percent share of the market in July, according to NetApplications, after falling below the 60 percent mark in April and May. However, as Network World’s Paul McNamara reports, IE’s market share was as high as 68 percent a year ago and Google Chrome, while at just 7.61 percent, still tripled its market share from 2.59 percent over the same period.
And IE’s competitors aren’t just sitting around moping about how IE is the king of the hill. The Mozilla Foundation released a beta of Firefox 4.0 in July and Google today launched a beta version of Chrome 6.
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IE 9 beta release date draws near
IE 9 beta release date draws near
Circle Sept. 15 on your calendars for the beta launch of Windows Internet Explorer 9, as Microsoft executives hop on a quick flight from Redmond down to San Francisco for a kickoff event.
Microsoft’s chief operating officer, Kevin Turner, revealed a September launch at the company’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting July 29, but now we have a specific date.
Invitations went out today for the event, according to a blog post by James Pratt, an IE product manager at Microsoft MCTS Training. Pratt explained that the marketing message around IE 9 is that it delivers “the Beauty of the Web” to your computer.
More than 2.5 million preview versions of IE 9 have been downloaded -- four preview versions total -- since the first preview was released at Microsoft’s MIX10 developer event in Las Vegas back in March. Microsoft has been absorbing feedback from developers using the preview versions to help tweak the product.
Microsoft is boasting that IE 9 is going to be orders of magnitude faster than IE 8. When the fourth preview was released Aug. 4, PC World’s Tony Bradley reported that according to the Acid3 score, a measure of how quickly a browser loads Web pages, the fourth preview hit a 95, versus the IE 8 score of 20. At the core of IE 9 is a new JavaScript engine, codenamed Chakra, that runs natively in the browser “rather than bolting it onto the side to support multiple JavaScript engines as some other browsers do today,” Microsoft explained in a post on the IEBlog Aug. 4. IE 9 is built to support the HTML5 standard for delivering content on the Web.
IE 9 is coming to market just as Microsoft MCITP Certification is regaining its market share against competitors like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera. Internet Explorer held a 60.74 percent share of the market in July, according to NetApplications, after falling below the 60 percent mark in April and May. However, as Network World’s Paul McNamara reports, IE’s market share was as high as 68 percent a year ago and Google Chrome, while at just 7.61 percent, still tripled its market share from 2.59 percent over the same period.
And IE’s competitors aren’t just sitting around moping about how IE is the king of the hill. The Mozilla Foundation released a beta of Firefox 4.0 in July and Google today launched a beta version of Chrome 6.
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Ognuno ha il proprio colore preferito, implicazioneMBT colore del mistero, leggendo le informazioni buone e cattive. Persona di simpatie e antipatie di un certo colore, anti shoescon la mentalità del tempo diversa e cambiamento di umore. In generale, il colore delle MBT scarpescarpe deve corrispondere i suoi cinque elementi.Il bianco è il colore dell'oro, del beige e oro, è il colore di un legno verde, verde, un colore di acqua con il nero, MBT scarpe azzurro è il colore del fuoco, rosso, viola; territorio a carico del colore giallo, brown
Ognuno ha il proprio colore preferito, implicazioneMBT colore del mistero, leggendo le informazioni buone e cattive. Persona di simpatie e antipatie di un certo colore, anti shoescon la mentalità del tempo diversa e cambiamento di umore. In generale, il colore delle MBT scarpescarpe deve corrispondere i suoi cinque elementi.Il bianco è il colore dell'oro, del beige e oro, è il colore di un legno verde, verde, un colore di acqua con il nero, MBT scarpe azzurro è il colore del fuoco, rosso, viola; territorio a carico del colore giallo, brown
Ognuno ha il proprio colore preferito, implicazioneMBT colore del mistero, leggendo le informazioni buone e cattive. Persona di simpatie e antipatie di un certo colore, anti shoescon la mentalità del tempo diversa e cambiamento di umore. In generale, il colore delle MBT scarpescarpe deve corrispondere i suoi cinque elementi.Il bianco è il colore dell'oro, del beige e oro, è il colore di un legno verde, verde, un colore di acqua con il nero, MBT scarpe azzurro è il colore del fuoco, rosso, viola; territorio a carico del colore giallo, brown
Ognuno ha il proprio colore preferito, implicazioneMBT colore del mistero, leggendo le informazioni buone e cattive. Persona di simpatie e antipatie di un certo colore, anti shoescon la mentalità del tempo diversa e cambiamento di umore. In generale, il colore delle MBT scarpescarpe deve corrispondere i suoi cinque elementi.Il bianco è il colore dell'oro, del beige e oro, è il colore di un legno verde, verde, un colore di acqua con il nero, MBT scarpe azzurro è il colore del fuoco, rosso, viola; territorio a carico del colore giallo, brown
Ognuno ha il proprio colore preferito, implicazioneMBT colore del mistero, leggendo le informazioni buone e cattive. Persona di simpatie e antipatie di un certo colore, anti shoescon la mentalità del tempo diversa e cambiamento di umore. In generale, il colore delle MBT scarpescarpe deve corrispondere i suoi cinque elementi.Il bianco è il colore dell'oro, del beige e oro, è il colore di un legno verde, verde, un colore di acqua con il nero, MBT scarpe azzurro è il colore del fuoco, rosso, viola; territorio a carico del colore giallo, brown
Ognuno ha il proprio colore preferito, implicazioneMBT colore del mistero, leggendo le informazioni buone e cattive. Persona di simpatie e antipatie di un certo colore, anti shoescon la mentalità del tempo diversa e cambiamento di umore. In generale, il colore delle MBT scarpescarpe deve corrispondere i suoi cinque elementi.Il bianco è il colore dell'oro, del beige e oro, è il colore di un legno verde, verde, un colore di acqua con il nero, MBT scarpe azzurro è il colore del fuoco, rosso, viola; territorio a carico del colore giallo, brown
Ognuno ha il proprio colore preferito, implicazioneMBT colore del mistero, leggendo le informazioni buone e cattive. Persona di simpatie e antipatie di un certo colore, anti shoescon la mentalità del tempo diversa e cambiamento di umore. In generale, il colore delle MBT scarpescarpe deve corrispondere i suoi cinque elementi.Il bianco è il colore dell'oro, del beige e oro, è il colore di un legno verde, verde, un colore di acqua con il nero, MBT scarpe azzurro è il colore del fuoco, rosso, viola; territorio a carico del colore giallo, brown
Ognuno ha il proprio colore preferito, implicazioneMBT colore del mistero, leggendo le informazioni buone e cattive. Persona di simpatie e antipatie di un certo colore, anti shoescon la mentalità del tempo diversa e cambiamento di umore. In generale, il colore delle MBT scarpescarpe deve corrispondere i suoi cinque elementi.Il bianco è il colore dell'oro, del beige e oro, è il colore di un legno verde, verde, un colore di acqua con il nero, MBT scarpe azzurro è il colore del fuoco, rosso, viola; territorio a carico del colore giallo, brown
Circle Sept. 15 on your calendars for the beta launch of Windows Internet Explorer 9, as Microsoft executives hop on a quick flight from Redmond down to San Francisco for a kickoff event.
Microsoft’s chief operating officer, Kevin Turner, revealed a September launch at the company’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting July 29, but now we have a specific date.
Invitations went out today for the event, according to a blog post by James Pratt, an IE product manager at Microsoft MCTS Training. Pratt explained that the marketing message around IE 9 is that it delivers “the Beauty of the Web” to your computer.
More than 2.5 million preview versions of IE 9 have been downloaded -- four preview versions total -- since the first preview was released at Microsoft’s MIX10 developer event in Las Vegas back in March. Microsoft has been absorbing feedback from developers using the preview versions to help tweak the product.
Microsoft is boasting that IE 9 is going to be orders of magnitude faster than IE 8. When the fourth preview was released Aug. 4, PC World’s Tony Bradley reported that according to the Acid3 score, a measure of how quickly a browser loads Web pages, the fourth preview hit a 95, versus the IE 8 score of 20. At the core of IE 9 is a new JavaScript engine, codenamed Chakra, that runs natively in the browser “rather than bolting it onto the side to support multiple JavaScript engines as some other browsers do today,” Microsoft explained in a post on the IEBlog Aug. 4. IE 9 is built to support the HTML5 standard for delivering content on the Web.
IE 9 is coming to market just as Microsoft MCITP Certification is regaining its market share against competitors like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera. Internet Explorer held a 60.74 percent share of the market in July, according to NetApplications, after falling below the 60 percent mark in April and May. However, as Network World’s Paul McNamara reports, IE’s market share was as high as 68 percent a year ago and Google Chrome, while at just 7.61 percent, still tripled its market share from 2.59 percent over the same period.
And IE’s competitors aren’t just sitting around moping about how IE is the king of the hill. The Mozilla Foundation released a beta of Firefox 4.0 in July and Google today launched a beta version of Chrome 6.
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Ognuno ha il proprio colore preferito, implicazioneMBT colore del mistero, leggendo le informazioni buone e cattive. Persona di simpatie e antipatie di un certo colore, anti shoescon la mentalità del tempo diversa e cambiamento di umore. In generale, il colore delle MBT scarpescarpe deve corrispondere i suoi cinque elementi.Il bianco è il colore dell'oro, del beige e oro, è il colore di un legno verde, verde, un colore di acqua con il nero, MBT scarpe azzurro è il colore del fuoco, rosso, viola; territorio a carico del colore giallo, brown
Ognuno ha il proprio colore preferito, implicazioneMBT colore del mistero, leggendo le informazioni buone e cattive. Persona di simpatie e antipatie di un certo colore, anti shoescon la mentalità del tempo diversa e cambiamento di umore. In generale, il colore delle MBT scarpescarpe deve corrispondere i suoi cinque elementi.Il bianco è il colore dell'oro, del beige e oro, è il colore di un legno verde, verde, un colore di acqua con il nero, MBT scarpe azzurro è il colore del fuoco, rosso, viola; territorio a carico del colore giallo, brown
Ognuno ha il proprio colore preferito, implicazioneMBT colore del mistero, leggendo le informazioni buone e cattive. Persona di simpatie e antipatie di un certo colore, anti shoescon la mentalità del tempo diversa e cambiamento di umore. In generale, il colore delle MBT scarpescarpe deve corrispondere i suoi cinque elementi.Il bianco è il colore dell'oro, del beige e oro, è il colore di un legno verde, verde, un colore di acqua con il nero, MBT scarpe azzurro è il colore del fuoco, rosso, viola; territorio a carico del colore giallo, brown
Ognuno ha il proprio colore preferito, implicazioneMBT colore del mistero, leggendo le informazioni buone e cattive. Persona di simpatie e antipatie di un certo colore, anti shoescon la mentalità del tempo diversa e cambiamento di umore. In generale, il colore delle MBT scarpescarpe deve corrispondere i suoi cinque elementi.Il bianco è il colore dell'oro, del beige e oro, è il colore di un legno verde, verde, un colore di acqua con il nero, MBT scarpe azzurro è il colore del fuoco, rosso, viola; territorio a carico del colore giallo, brown
Ognuno ha il proprio colore preferito, implicazioneMBT colore del mistero, leggendo le informazioni buone e cattive. Persona di simpatie e antipatie di un certo colore, anti shoescon la mentalità del tempo diversa e cambiamento di umore. In generale, il colore delle MBT scarpescarpe deve corrispondere i suoi cinque elementi.Il bianco è il colore dell'oro, del beige e oro, è il colore di un legno verde, verde, un colore di acqua con il nero, MBT scarpe azzurro è il colore del fuoco, rosso, viola; territorio a carico del colore giallo, brown
Ognuno ha il proprio colore preferito, implicazioneMBT colore del mistero, leggendo le informazioni buone e cattive. Persona di simpatie e antipatie di un certo colore, anti shoescon la mentalità del tempo diversa e cambiamento di umore. In generale, il colore delle MBT scarpescarpe deve corrispondere i suoi cinque elementi.Il bianco è il colore dell'oro, del beige e oro, è il colore di un legno verde, verde, un colore di acqua con il nero, MBT scarpe azzurro è il colore del fuoco, rosso, viola; territorio a carico del colore giallo, brown
Ognuno ha il proprio colore preferito, implicazioneMBT colore del mistero, leggendo le informazioni buone e cattive. Persona di simpatie e antipatie di un certo colore, anti shoescon la mentalità del tempo diversa e cambiamento di umore. In generale, il colore delle MBT scarpescarpe deve corrispondere i suoi cinque elementi.Il bianco è il colore dell'oro, del beige e oro, è il colore di un legno verde, verde, un colore di acqua con il nero, MBT scarpe azzurro è il colore del fuoco, rosso, viola; territorio a carico del colore giallo, brown
Ognuno ha il proprio colore preferito, implicazioneMBT colore del mistero, leggendo le informazioni buone e cattive. Persona di simpatie e antipatie di un certo colore, anti shoescon la mentalità del tempo diversa e cambiamento di umore. In generale, il colore delle MBT scarpescarpe deve corrispondere i suoi cinque elementi.Il bianco è il colore dell'oro, del beige e oro, è il colore di un legno verde, verde, un colore di acqua con il nero, MBT scarpe azzurro è il colore del fuoco, rosso, viola; territorio a carico del colore giallo, brown
Ognuno ha il proprio colore preferito, implicazioneMBT colore del mistero, leggendo le informazioni buone e cattive. Persona di simpatie e antipatie di un certo colore, anti shoescon la mentalità del tempo diversa e cambiamento di umore. In generale, il colore delle MBT scarpescarpe deve corrispondere i suoi cinque elementi.Il bianco è il colore dell'oro, del beige e oro, è il colore di un legno verde, verde, un colore di acqua con il nero, MBT scarpe azzurro è il colore del fuoco, rosso, viola; territorio a carico del colore giallo, brown
Friday, August 13, 2010
Microsoft: Vista paved the way for secure Windows
Microsoft: Vista paved the way for secure Windows
Despite being widely derided (even by Microsoft executives), the Vista OS was instrumental in finally bringing to the world a secure version of Windows, at least if a presentation by a Microsoft security expert at the Usenix Security Symposium, being held this week in Washington, D.C, is any indication.
And it was the most widely hated feature of Vista -- User Access Control (UAC) -- that can take the credit.
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It was all the users complaining about the annoying UAC pop-up boxes that finally spurred many application developers to rewrite their programs, explained Crispin Cowan, a Microsoft senior program manager for the Windows core security team.
These programs were rewritten so that they did not require full administrative privileges to run, which, in turn, cut down on the UAC boxes and allowed users to slowly grow more comfortable running in more limited, but safer, user modes.
"The purpose of UAC was to move applications away from using administrative privileges. Its job was to spank programs that used administrator that don't need to," Cowan said.
UAC, in effect, caused a "massive decimation of the population of ill-behaved [Windows] programs," he said. "The number of programs asking for admin rights dropped precipitously."
Cowan's talk was an extended argument on why Windows 7 is as secure as Unix variants such as Linux. And this security parity came about, in his view, in large part thanks to the fact that Windows Vista was the first desktop version of Windows to not, by default, give each user account full administrative privileges.
Windows' reputation for lousy security has been fully deserved, Cowan admitted. Even today, the most widely used version of Windows is Windows XP, which was built in 2001, and lacks most of the security provisions needed for today's environments (though Service Pack 2 added a lot of security features, he said).
Early versions of the Windows OS stressed usability over security, as well as interoperability among different programs, Cowan said. As a result, Windows allowed every user to have full control over the machine, in effect giving each user account full administrative control over a machine.
"If you are running as administrator, security is fairly hopeless," he said. Unfettered administrative rights is what allowed malware and viruses to take control of computers.
Beginning in 2002, however, Microsoft started making security an essential part of software development. As a result, the then next version of Windows, Vista, featured a total separation between what a user can do on a machine and what an administrator can do, a separation that has always been enforced on Unix distributions.
This separation, enforced by UAC, limits the damage that a user can do to a machine.
UAC could be seen as the Windows equivalent to the Unix sudo command, Cowan explained. Sudo allows a user to execute privilege tasks only after supplying an administrator, or root, password. Some Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, do away, at least out of the box, with root accounts altogether, relying entirely on sudo.
Many users chafed at using UAC, however. Every time a program would require full administrative rights to run, a UAC box would pop up on the screen, asking the user for permission.
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The annoyance of UAC actually proved to be beneficial over the long run, Cowan explained, because it reduced the number of applications that required administrative rights.
In many cases, programs did not need administrative permissions at all. Many Windows programs were designed to write their configuration data to the system registry, when it could as just as easily be stored in user folders.
Over time, application developers got the message from all the user complaints. Using anonymous telemetry data, Microsoft MCTS Training estimated that the number of Windows applications that required user access dropped from approximately 900,000 to 180,000.
While Vista got the bad reputation for user-hostility, Windows 7 made UAC more user friendly without relaxing the strict divide between user and administrator. This OS offered auto-elevation, in which a limited number of Microsoft pre-approved programs could get administrative access without the annoying user prompts. It offers a sliding UAC scale, so users can pick the level of restriction for their applications. Windows 7 also established virtual accounts so individual applications could get their own user accounts, Cowan said.
After the talk, one audience member said he agreed that UAC probably did encourage application vendors to rewrite their programs, but wondered if that was really Microsoft's goal in the first place, given the amount of user dissatisfaction it caused. Cowan himself admitted, when discussing browser security, that "Prompts are not purely evil. Prompts in which the answer is almost always 'yes' are evil."
UAC was one of a number of features that, Cowan said, brought Windows to security parity with Unix. The other features include a built-in firewall and the signing of 64-bit kernel drivers. In some cases, he argued, Windows now has security features that aren't even found in most Unix distributions, such as network access protection, memory address randomization, and data execution prevention.
"Unix had a very large security lead. Since then, Microsoft MCITP Certification has closed the gap on every front and in some cases exceeded Unix security," Cowan said.
Despite being widely derided (even by Microsoft executives), the Vista OS was instrumental in finally bringing to the world a secure version of Windows, at least if a presentation by a Microsoft security expert at the Usenix Security Symposium, being held this week in Washington, D.C, is any indication.
And it was the most widely hated feature of Vista -- User Access Control (UAC) -- that can take the credit.
Plan for the unexpected with batch integration: Download now
It was all the users complaining about the annoying UAC pop-up boxes that finally spurred many application developers to rewrite their programs, explained Crispin Cowan, a Microsoft senior program manager for the Windows core security team.
These programs were rewritten so that they did not require full administrative privileges to run, which, in turn, cut down on the UAC boxes and allowed users to slowly grow more comfortable running in more limited, but safer, user modes.
"The purpose of UAC was to move applications away from using administrative privileges. Its job was to spank programs that used administrator that don't need to," Cowan said.
UAC, in effect, caused a "massive decimation of the population of ill-behaved [Windows] programs," he said. "The number of programs asking for admin rights dropped precipitously."
Cowan's talk was an extended argument on why Windows 7 is as secure as Unix variants such as Linux. And this security parity came about, in his view, in large part thanks to the fact that Windows Vista was the first desktop version of Windows to not, by default, give each user account full administrative privileges.
Windows' reputation for lousy security has been fully deserved, Cowan admitted. Even today, the most widely used version of Windows is Windows XP, which was built in 2001, and lacks most of the security provisions needed for today's environments (though Service Pack 2 added a lot of security features, he said).
Early versions of the Windows OS stressed usability over security, as well as interoperability among different programs, Cowan said. As a result, Windows allowed every user to have full control over the machine, in effect giving each user account full administrative control over a machine.
"If you are running as administrator, security is fairly hopeless," he said. Unfettered administrative rights is what allowed malware and viruses to take control of computers.
Beginning in 2002, however, Microsoft started making security an essential part of software development. As a result, the then next version of Windows, Vista, featured a total separation between what a user can do on a machine and what an administrator can do, a separation that has always been enforced on Unix distributions.
This separation, enforced by UAC, limits the damage that a user can do to a machine.
UAC could be seen as the Windows equivalent to the Unix sudo command, Cowan explained. Sudo allows a user to execute privilege tasks only after supplying an administrator, or root, password. Some Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, do away, at least out of the box, with root accounts altogether, relying entirely on sudo.
Many users chafed at using UAC, however. Every time a program would require full administrative rights to run, a UAC box would pop up on the screen, asking the user for permission.
Plan for the unexpected with batch integration: Download now
The annoyance of UAC actually proved to be beneficial over the long run, Cowan explained, because it reduced the number of applications that required administrative rights.
In many cases, programs did not need administrative permissions at all. Many Windows programs were designed to write their configuration data to the system registry, when it could as just as easily be stored in user folders.
Over time, application developers got the message from all the user complaints. Using anonymous telemetry data, Microsoft MCTS Training estimated that the number of Windows applications that required user access dropped from approximately 900,000 to 180,000.
While Vista got the bad reputation for user-hostility, Windows 7 made UAC more user friendly without relaxing the strict divide between user and administrator. This OS offered auto-elevation, in which a limited number of Microsoft pre-approved programs could get administrative access without the annoying user prompts. It offers a sliding UAC scale, so users can pick the level of restriction for their applications. Windows 7 also established virtual accounts so individual applications could get their own user accounts, Cowan said.
After the talk, one audience member said he agreed that UAC probably did encourage application vendors to rewrite their programs, but wondered if that was really Microsoft's goal in the first place, given the amount of user dissatisfaction it caused. Cowan himself admitted, when discussing browser security, that "Prompts are not purely evil. Prompts in which the answer is almost always 'yes' are evil."
UAC was one of a number of features that, Cowan said, brought Windows to security parity with Unix. The other features include a built-in firewall and the signing of 64-bit kernel drivers. In some cases, he argued, Windows now has security features that aren't even found in most Unix distributions, such as network access protection, memory address randomization, and data execution prevention.
"Unix had a very large security lead. Since then, Microsoft MCITP Certification has closed the gap on every front and in some cases exceeded Unix security," Cowan said.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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Exam 70-270:
Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows XP
Professional
Published: February 22, 2008
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Audience(s): IT Professionals
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Overview:
Audience Profile
Candidates for this exam operate in medium to very large computing
environments that use Windows XP Professional as a desktop operating system.
They have a minimum of one year of experience implementing and administering any
desktop operating system in a network environment.
Credit Toward CertificationWhen you pass Exam 70-270: Installing, Configuring,
and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional, you complete the
requirements for the following certification(s):
* Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Exam 70-270: Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows XP
Professional: counts as credit toward the following certification(s):
Core credit toward Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer on Windows Server 2003
certification
Core credit toward Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator on Windows Server
2003 certification
Core credit toward Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer on Microsoft Windows
2000 certification
Core credit toward Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator on Microsoft
Windows 2000 certification
Note This preparation guide is subject to change at any time without prior
notice and at the sole discretion of Microsoft. Microsoft exams might include
adaptive testing technology and simulation items. Microsoft does not identify
the format in which exams are presented. Please use this preparation guide to
prepare for the exam, regardless of its format.
Skills Being Measured
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed
below.The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on
the exam.
Installing Windows XP Professional
Perform and troubleshoot an attended installation of Windows XP Professional.
Perform and troubleshoot an unattended installation of Windows XP
Professional.
o Install Windows XP Professional by using Remote Installation Services (RIS).
o Install Windows XP Professional by using the System Preparation Tool.
o Create unattended answer files by using Setup Manager to automate the
installation of Windows XP Professional.
Upgrade from a previous version of Windows to Windows XP Professional.
o Prepare a computer to meet upgrade requirements.
o Migrate existing user environments to a new installation.
Perform post-installation updates and product activation.
Troubleshoot failed installations.
Implementing and Conducting Administration of Resources
Monitor, manage, and troubleshoot access to files and folders.
o Configure, manage, and troubleshoot file compression.
o Control access to files and folders by using permissions.
o Optimize access to files and folders.
Manage and troubleshoot access to shared folders.
o Create and remove shared folders.
o Control access to shared folders by using permissions.
o Manage and troubleshoot Web server resources.
Connect to local and network print devices.
o Manage printers and print jobs.
o Control access to printers by using permissions.
o Connect to an Internet printer.
o Connect to a local print device.
Configure and manage file systems.
o Convert from one file system to another file system.
o Configure NTFS, FAT32, or FAT file systems.
Manage and troubleshoot access to and synchronization of offline files.
Implementing, Managing, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting Hardware Devices and
Drivers
Implement, manage, and troubleshoot disk devices.
o Install, configure, and manage DVD and CD-ROM devices.
o Monitor and configure disks.
o Monitor, configure, and troubleshoot volumes.
o Monitor and configure removable media, such as tape devices.
Implement, manage, and troubleshoot display devices.
o Configure multiple-display support.
o Install, configure, and troubleshoot a video adapter.
Configure Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI).
Implement, manage, and troubleshoot input and output (I/O) devices.
o Monitor, configure, and troubleshoot I/O devices, such as printers,
scanners, multimedia devices, mouse, keyboard, and smart card reader.
o Monitor, configure, and troubleshoot multimedia hardware, such as cameras.
o Install, configure, and manage modems.
o Install, configure, and manage Infrared Data Association (IrDA) devices.
o Install, configure, and manage wireless devices.
o Install, configure, and manage USB devices.
o Install, configure, and manage hand held devices.
o Install, configure, and manage network adapters.
Manage and troubleshoot drivers and driver signing.
Monitor and configure multiprocessor computers.
Monitoring and Optimizing System Performance and Reliability
Monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot performance of the Windows XP Professional
desktop.
o Optimize and troubleshoot memory performance.
o Optimize and troubleshoot processor utilization.
o Optimize and troubleshoot disk performance.
o Optimize and troubleshoot application performance.
o Configure, manage, and troubleshoot Scheduled Tasks.
Manage, monitor, and optimize system performance for mobile users.
Restore and back up the operating system, System State data, and user data.
o Recover System State data and user data by using Windows Backup.
o Troubleshoot system restoration by starting in safe mode.
o Recover System State data and user data by using the Recovery console.
Configuring and Troubleshooting the Desktop Environment
Configure and manage user profiles and desktop settings.
Configure support for multiple languages or multiple locations.
o Enable multiple-language support.
o Configure multiple-language support for users.
o Configure local settings.
o Configure Windows XP Professional for multiple locations.
Manage applications by using Windows Installer packages.
Implementing, Managing, and Troubleshooting Network Protocols and Services
Configure and troubleshoot the TCP/IP protocol.
Connect to computers by using dial-up networking.
o Connect to computers by using a virtual private network (VPN) connection.
o Create a dial-up connection to connect to a remote access server.
o Connect to the Internet by using dial-up networking.
o Configure and troubleshoot Internet Connection Sharing (ICS).
Connect to resources by using Internet Explorer.
Configure, manage, and implement Internet Information Services (IIS).
Configure, manage, and troubleshoot Remote Desktop and Remote Assistance.
Configure, manage, and troubleshoot an Internet Connection Firewall (ICF).
Configuring, Managing, and Troubleshooting Security
Configure, manage, and troubleshoot Encrypting File System (EFS).
Configure, manage, and troubleshoot a security configuration and local security
policy.
Configure, manage, and troubleshoot local user and group accounts.
o Configure, manage, and troubleshoot auditing.
o Configure, manage, and troubleshoot account settings.
o Configure, manage, and troubleshoot account policy.
o Configure, manage, and troubleshoot user and group rights.
o Troubleshoot cache credentials.
Configure, manage, and troubleshoot Internet Explorer security settings.
Preparation Tools and Resources
To help you prepare for this exam, Microsoft Learning recommends that you
have hands-on experience with the product and that you use the following
training resources. These training resources do not necessarily cover all of the
topics listed in the "Skills Measured" tab.
Classroom Training
* : Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5 Days)
* 2620B: Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5 Days)
* 2619B: Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5 Days)
* 2226A: Installing, Administering and Configuring Microsoft Windows XP
Professionnel (2 Days)
* 2223A: Installing, Administering and Configuring Microsoft Windows XP
Professionnel (2 Days)
* 2223B: Installing, Administering, and Configuring Microsoft Windows XP
Professional (2 Days)
* 2618B: Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5 Days)
* 2616B: Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5 Days)
* 2285A: Installing, Configuring & Administering Microsoft® Windows® XP
Professional
* 2272B: Implementing and Supporting Microsoft® Windows® Vista Professional
* 2617B: Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5 Days)
* 2227B: Installing, Administering, and Configuring Microsoft Windows XP
Professional (2 Days)
* 2615B: Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5 Days)
* 2225A: Installing, Administering and Configuring Microsoft Windows XP
Professionnel (2 Days)
* 2225B: Installing, Administering, and Configuring Microsoft Windows XP
Professional (2 Days)
* 2285B: Installing, Configuring & Administering Microsoft® Windows® XP
Professional
* 2227A: Installing, Administering and Configuring Microsoft Windows XP
Professionnel (2 Days)
* 2224A: Installing, Administering and Configuring Microsoft Windows XP
Professionnel (2 Days)
* 2621B: Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5 Days)
* 2619A: (5 Days)
* 2224B: Installing, Administering, and Configuring Microsoft Windows XP
Professional (2 Days)
* 2272C: Implementing and Supporting Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional
* 1560C: Updating Support Skills from Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0 to Microsoft
Windows® 2000
* 2226B: Installing, Administering, and Configuring Microsoft Windows XP
Professional (2 Days)
Microsoft E-Learning
* 2285AE: Installing, Configuring & Administering Microsoft® Windows® XP
Professional
* 1560AE: Updating Support Skills from Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0 to Microsoft
Windows® 2000
* 2285BE: Installing, Configuring & Administering Microsoft® Windows® XP
Professional
Microsoft Press Books
* MCSE Training Kit (Exam 70-270): Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Practice Tests
* Testkingdom(testkingdom.com)
Microsoft Online Resources
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