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19-02-2007
MS Windows Mobile
Microsoft Corp. is considering a launch of their next-generation operating system for wireless implements. Windows Mobile 6, which is important for the company's undertake to capture market share advance than the desktop.
The company gives assurance that this software could carry documents and e-mails to the degree that these appear on desktop. The new software will also have good connectivity to online services of Microsoft's "Live" suite, including IM (instant messaging).
These features are the part of Microsoft’s larger effort to make connectivity to its widespread software of desktop as a strategy for catching up mobile operating systems with the worldwide leader.
faster virtualized Windows
Xen is an open-source "hypervisor" that make a single machine execute multiple operating systems. A feature that's practical for combining work onto a lesser number of more competently used servers. Windows' networking performance on Xen today is, considerately speaking; poky, even while Linux runs relatively well on Xen.
Jointly developed by Intel and Novell, the Xen modification fixes this problem and enhances Windows' network speeds in a virtual machine almost to that of the operating system working on a physical machine, said vice president of product management Mr. Carlos Montero-Luque, for Linux and platforms business at Novell.
Montero-Luque said, "Network performance is very slow without it --less than 10 percent of speed (physical machine). We reach over 90 percent speed of a physical machine with it."
Windows still needs virtualization support available in newer x86 chips-- Advanced Micro Devices' or Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) equivalent, AMD-V to run on Xen. But the new software makes possible disk access and network to run much more swiftly, said chief technologist of Intel open-source technology center, Dirk Hohndel.
Novell is releasing the software in an open pilot project with its Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10. The software works either with AMD-V or with Intel's VT.
In addition, Novell plans to announce that through its technology partnership and patent with Microsoft, rival Microsoft will offer joint technical support for customers running Windows Server, a platform of Xen.
