Wednesday, 29 June 2011
IT partner: Rango (2011) BRRip 700mb
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Trust (2010) BRRip 525mb
Posted on Jun 26, 2011 in BRrip | 2 comments
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[FORMAT]:…………………..[ Matroska
[MOVIE NAME]:……………….[ Trust (2010)
[GENRE]:……………………[ Drama, Thriller
[RELEASE DATE]:……………..[ 1 April 2011(USA)
[DIRECTOR]:…………………[ David Schwimmer
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[NO OF CDs]:………………..[ 1
[LANGUAGE ]:………………..[ English
[RELEASE RUNTIME]:…………..[ 01:45:36
[ENCODER]:………………….[arnt
[iMDB RATING]:………………[ 7.3/10
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A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie (Liana Liberato) meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend (Chris Henry Coffey) is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her parents (Clive Owen and Catherine Keener) are shattered by their daughter's actions and struggle to support her as she comes to terms with what has happened to her once innocent life.
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Rango (2011) BRRip 700mb
Posted on Jun 27, 2011 in BRrip | 14 comments
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[FORMAT]:…………………..[ Matroska
[AWARDS]:…………………..[ none
[GENRE]:……………………[ Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Western
[FILE SIZE]:………………..[ 698 MiB
[NO OF CDs]:………………..[ 1
[RESOLUTION]:……………….[ 1280x528
[ASPECT RATIO]:……………..[ 2.40:1
[FRAME RATE]:……………….[ 23.976 fps
[LANGUAGE ]:………………..[ English
[SUBTITLES]:………………..[ muxed
[ORIGINAL RUNTIME]:………….[ 01:51:00
[RELEASE RUNTIME]:…………..[ 01:51:00
[SOURCE]:…………………..[ 720p-VeDeTT
[ENCODER]:………………….[scorp
[iMDB RATING]:………………[ 7.6/10
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Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.
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Monday, 27 June 2011
MOVIE
Jackass 3.5 (2011) BRRip 450mb
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1753968/
[FORMAT]:…………………..[ Matroska
[MOVIE NAME]:……………….[ Jackass 3.5 (Video 2011)
[GENRE]:……………………[ Documentary
[RELEASE DATE]:……………..[ 14 June 2011(USA)
[DIRECTOR]:…………………[ Jeff Tremaine
[FILE SIZE]:………………..[ 450 mb
[NO OF CDs]:………………..[ 1
[LANGUAGE ]:………………..[ English
[RELEASE RUNTIME]:…………..[ 01:24:50
[ENCODER]:………………….[arnt
[iMDB RATING]:………………[ 7.0/10
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Thursday, 23 June 2011
Understanding Storage Costs for Desktop Virtualization
if you are about to start considering a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) project, be advised: You need to really understand what your storage costs will be up front. Unexpectedly high storage costs have delayed or derailed VDI projects more than any other single issue. To avoid that problem, and accurately understand the ROI value of your project before you begin, make sure you understand the implications of these three storage issues:
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Problem 1: Evolution of Your Cost/GB for Storage
When you move from physical to virtual desktops, you are at the same time moving from a distributed to a centralized storage environment. Chances are very good that most of the storage devices attached to your current physical desktops are IDE-based storage. Your centralized storage, however, will be based on enterprise-class storage, not only because you will need that to support the scalability you require, but for a number of other operational reasons that have to do with performance, high availability, recoverability, and manageability.
IDE-based storage is widely available for roughly 10 cents/GB through retail outlets like Fry's. Enterprise-class storage is going to raise the cost per GB of storage a minimum of 30x if youre looking at SATA based storage, and as much as 100x if you're looking at FC-based storage that supports critical centralized storage functionality like high performance caches, sharing, multi-path I/O, and disk-based snapshots. You can't create the centralized data store you need for VDI projects without using enterprise-class storage technology. Therefore, you will need to factor in the necessary additional costs when budgeting for your VDI storage platform.
Problem 2: How VDI Increases Your Need for Storage
As if paying a lot more per GB for your storage isn't bad enough, you are also going to need more of it. If your administrators use their experience configuring storage on physical servers to estimate their requirements in VDI environments, you will generally be surprised to find that you need to purchase 30-50 percent more storage to meet your performance requirements.
Why does this happen? Basically, the I/O patterns generated in VDI environments, where you may have 50-70 virtual desktops, each with their own individual I/O streams, running on a single physical server, end up being significantly more random and significantly more write-intensive than they are in physical environments as you write them down through the hypervisor and out to disk. Spinning disk performs at its worst in very random, very write- intensive environments, with the slowdown being worse the more random and write-intensive they are. For a given performance requirement (e.g. I/O's per second or IOPS), the storage configuration that met your needs on a dedicated application server will appear to run at least 50 percent slower in a VDI environment, and often much more. As administrators add more hardware (e.g. more disk spindles, solid state disk, etc.) to get back to their original performance target, the costs mount. You may meet your performance goals before you run out of storage budget, or you may not, but either way, you end up spending a lot more on storage than you probably originally planned.
Problem 3: More Storage Increases Your Storage Administration CostsIf you're like most IT shops, at least part of the reason you're looking at VDI is to decrease the management and administrative costs associated with tasks like patch management, upgrades, and enforcing some level of standardization in the desktop tool sets. Moving to a centrally-managed environment where virtual desktops are served out on demand can make a huge impact here, but storage administration is almost always an area where costs increase.
Realize that you're moving from a physical desktop environment where you probably weren't managing storage much (if at all) to one where you now have IT resources in a centralized location managing that same capacity on enterprise-class storage. There is no doubt that there are benefits to that in terms of meeting performance requirements, enforcing security, and providing recovery for perhaps critical corporate assets, but there is clearly an additional cost here where there may have been none before.
On top of this, you will be incurring additional management overhead against a baseline storage capacity that can easily be 30-50 percent larger than it was before (when you weren't managing it). Backup is a case in point. You probably weren't backing up your desktop storage before, and it's unlikely that end users were backing it up either. By centralizing it, you can ensure that it is regularly backed up by skilled administrators. You might have had 10TB that you weren't backing up before, and now may have 13-15TB being backed up. You'll need to factor in the additional costs of this secondary storage required to support data protection operations.
How Can I Afford VDI?At this point it should be pretty clear that you are going to have to do some significant thinking about how you manage storage in your VDI environments if you are going to keep costs under control. Once you have storage under the central control of skilled administrators, there are a number of technologies you can bring to bear to reduce your overall storage requirements. These include, but are not limited to, virtual storage architectures that increase the IOPS per disk spindle by 3x - 10x, storage capacity optimization technologies like thin provisioning and data deduplication that can save up to 90 percent on capacity requirements, scalable snapshots technologies that enable the high performance sharing of common data, and the use of storage tiering to craft the most cost-effective combination of storage technologies to meet performance requirements.
Understanding how best to leverage these storage technologies to minimize the size of the storage configurations needed to meet your VDI performance requirements is the best way to keep your overall storage costs down. And that can go a long way to re-balancing the cost structure so that VDI projects can return a positive ROI.
Five Good Reasons to Download Firefox 5
- After the wildly successful launch of Firefox 4 not all that long ago, it's hard to believe the next iteration of Mozilla's popular and free open source browser is already here.
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Sure enough, though, Firefox 5 was officially released on Tuesday complete with a raft of new features that promise to give the browser yet another boost.
I've been playing around with Firefox 5 for some time already, and though it's not as big an upgrade as Firefox 4 was, it's been rock solid--and fast.
I wrote just last week about a number of the key new features appearing in the release candidate. Now that the final version is here, however, there's no more reason to delay. Here are five good reasons you should download Firefox 5 as soon as you can.
1. It Respects Your Privacy
Mozilla's Do Not Track feature gives users more control over the way their browsing behavior is tracked and used on the Web by allowing them to tell the websites they visit that they want to opt out of online behavioral tracking. Now, in Firefox 5, Do Not Track is even easier to find in the Firefox Preferences section.
Also of note is that Firefox 5 for Android includes the Do Not Track feature as well, making Firefox the first browser to support Do Not Track on multiple platforms, Mozilla says.
2. It's Small and Fast
I've been feeling like Firefox 5 is faster, and that impression was recently confirmed over at Digitzor, which ran it through a bunch of benchmarks. Firefox actually blew away both Chrome and Opera on the SunSpider JavaScript test, in particular (no other browsers were included), and its cold start time compared very well with that of Google's Chrome. Firefox 5 was also notable for taking up minimal RAM, even with 25 websites opened.
3. It Supports an Open Web
With improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL and canvas, Firefox 5 is the best browser choice for an open Web. The new Firefox Add-on SDK for Windows, Mac and Linux enables local development of add-ons, meanwhile, and the Firefox Add-on Builder Beta provides a hosted Web-based build environment. The new version of the multiplatform software also adds support for CSS animations.
4. It Sports 1000 Improvements
It's actually more than 1000 improvements and performance enhancements that have been included in Firefox 5. They may not all be huge, noticeable user-interface changes, but they definitely make the software better.
The Android version of Firefox 5, meanwhile, includes a raft of bug fixes, improved page load speeds--especially on 3G networks--and added IPv6 support.
5. It's Secure, Independent and User-Driven
Firefox is open source software, which means it's not only developed with the help of users, but its security is continuously monitored and improved by a global community of users and developers. Mozilla, meanwhile, is an independent foundation. There's no way a proprietary browser maker like Microsoft -- or even a company like Google, which has its fingers everywhere -- can compete with that independence and user focus.
Firefox clearly faces stiff competition from Google's Chrome, but further improvements are on the way in Firefox 6 and beyond. You can download it here and see for yourself.
Tablet or Netbook? How to Choose the Right Mobile Tech
ablets, netbooks, smartphones--these days, you can't buy a microwave without being upsold on the 4G, touchscreen, app-store model. But when you're picking out your preferred mobile tech for work (or even for play), you can't rely on a features chart or a list of specs to tell you what you should buy. That's why I decided to try working from the road with three different gadget combinations--a netbook with a smartphone, a Google Chrome OS CR-48 with a "dumb" phone, and an iPad with a dumb phone--to see which arrangement worked best for my needs and my budget.
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Outside of working at PCWorld, my mobile needs are fairly low-tech. I spend most of my weekdays working at the office or at home, or on a bus between the two, meaning that I'm usually within Wi-Fi coverage and I don't really need a smartphone for my daily life. Recently, however, I've been traveling more for work, so I needed gear that was portable, offered mobile broadband service, and could last for a whole day on one charge.
Combo #1: Netbook and Smartphone
First I decided to try working with a netbook and a smartphone. My colleagues Jason Cross and Ginny Mies outfitted me with an HP Mini 1103 and an Evo Shift 4G, and I went off to Los Angeles to work remotely for a week.
I immediately noticed that although the idea of an incredibly lightweight, portable PC was appealing, working on one didn't really deliver. I was able to use the netbook for everything I had to do in a standard workday: connecting to the VPN, filing and producing stories in PCWorld's content management system, uploading video and photos, and so on. It wasn't easy, though.Using the netbook felt kind of like working with a Swiss army knife: Just because a Windows 7 netbook can do everything doesn't mean it's actually good at doing anything. Since it's a Windows PC, you don't have to worry about not being able to use the applications or Web services you need to get your work done--but you'll have a hard time getting accustomed to using them on a netbook.
For example, I rely on Web apps for most of my tasks, which works fine on my dual-monitor office setup. But it's a lot harder to edit a document when I can see only a paragraph or two at a time. Even simple stuff, like reading a Web page or a spreadsheet, was downright frustrating on the HP Mini 1103's 10.1-inch, 1024-by-600-pixel display. And when I got frustrated, I got less work done.
The Android smartphone was handy for keeping tabs on my work Gmail and Google Calendar, and Google Maps was invaluable in helping me navigate L.A.'s public transit system. Whenever I had to leave the comfort of readily available apps and navigate the Web, however, I'd hold off until I could find a place with Wi-Fi to use the netbook. I'm so spoiled by my normal dual-monitor office setup that when I had to rotate the phone and zoom in and out just to read small text or to tap the correct link in the phone's Web browser, I decided I'd just do without. Although I had hoped that the Evo Shift 4G would be sufficient for all my mobile Internet needs, I eventually broke down and activated the smartphone's $30-per-month Wi-Fi hotspot feature, using the phone only if I was in transit.I was pleasantly surprised to see that all of my work equipment could fit inside my carry-on bag along with clothes and toiletries, but that was about it. Knowing that I could work anywhere felt oddly liberating, but I wouldn't willingly subject myself to the netbook/smartphone combination again. It's nice to have an easily portable PC, but you end up paying in usability.
Also, this package doesn't come cheap. The HP Mini 1103 was only $300 when it launched in February, but the Evo Shift 4G still costs a pretty penny: Add the $150 initial price (subsidized by a two-year contract) to $100 a month for Sprint's "Simply Everything" (unlimited talk/text/Web) plan, $10 a month for 4G service, $30 a month for mobile hotspot service, and $7 a month for handset insurance. You're looking at spending about $1700 each year on cellular service, plus $450 for the actual equipment before taxes and fees.
The Bottom Line: The netbook/smartphone combination is flexible and versatile, so if your on-the-go work needs are rather unpredictable, this setup is probably your best bet. It will cost you in time and stress, though, and I found that I simply didn't get as much work done because the two devices were so frustrating to use over a full workday.
Combo #2: Chrome OS Netbook and Dumb Phone
Chrome OS netbooks are here, and they promise to be faster and safer than your standard Windows netbook. Chromebooks don't really have any local storage, however, and the "OS" is basically the Google Chrome browser, so they bring their own new and exciting netbook issues along with them. I tried Google's test CR-48 Chrome OS netbook from its January pilot program, along with a basic Nokia dumb phone, to see how this combination stacks up for work.Of course, most people who want a netbook for work don't want to do everything on the Web. I can get away with that, most of the time--I do a lot of writing in Google Docs, and I can use PCWorld's CMS just fine with the CR-48.
But working with the Chrome OS for a few days didn't give me a good reason to choose Chrome over Windows. The CR-48 starts up in a few seconds, but the time it takes to associate itself with Verizon's 3G network and your nearby Wi-Fi network slows down the startup process, since you can't do anything until you get an Internet connection.
Once it is online, the Chromebook is great at handling the Web (better than the iPad), but in my tests it wasn't flexible enough for me to rely on as a primary work machine, especially if I ever needed to work with photos and video. And since I was depending on the CR-48 as my mobile Internet device, my plucky candy-bar dumb phone couldn't pick up any of the slack.
On the plus side, this setup costs significantly less, so if you go on day trips for work and can turn to a proper laptop or desktop PC later to finish your projects, you might want to consider a Chromebook. The initial purchase will cost you about $500 for Samsung's 3G Chromebook, and you get 100MB of 3G data per month for free for the first two years. If you need more data (and you probably will), you can opt to buy a prepaid monthly-use plan at a rate of $20 for 1GB, $35 for 3GB, or $50 for 5GB; alternatively, you can pay $10 for a one-day unlimited-use pass. The cost of the phone and cell plan is fairly reasonable: I pay $30 each month for a prepaid T-Mobile plan that gives me 1500 minutes or text messages.
In total, if you went for the $50 data plan, you'd be looking at $80 per month (including taxes and fees) for service ($960 a year) plus $530 or so to buy the Chromebook and phone--not bad compared with combo #1.
The Bottom Line: If you can get by with working only on the Web, the Chromebook isn't bad. It costs too much for what it offers, though. Unless you're operating on a strict budget and your monthly mobile Internet needs can fit under the free 100MB ceiling, you'll probably want to choose a tablet or a Windows netbook for your main mobile gadget.
Combo #3: iPad 2 and Dumb Phone
The legendary iPad-versus-netbook rivalry has destroyed online friendships and ruined article comment threads, for good reason: They're both very good devices, but they're meant for two very different kinds of people.Like most Apple products, iPads don't fare well in comparison charts of features and specs. Describing a netbook in terms of its component parts is easy, but doing the same for a tablet that defined its category is not so simple. Yet the majority of my fellow PCWorld editors are toting iPads these days, not netbooks, and I had to know why.
At first, I was skeptical of the iPad's "magic" because I could easily envision using a netbook for everyday work, but I couldn't picture myself writing a story on a touchscreen keyboard. After all, I usually work in a tabbed browser with at least six tabs open: two mail accounts, Google Calendar, the Google Docs home page plus one or two documents, and Pandora. I simply couldn't imagine using an iPad to work like that.
As it turns out, I was right--but that wasn't necessarily a bad thing. See, the way I work comes from the PC world (pardon the pun), where screen space, bandwidth, and processor cycles are abundant. Trying to replicate my six-tab arrangement on the iPad would be frustrating since the tablet simply doesn't multitask as a full-fledged PC can. Instead, I had to adapt to the iPad, which meant changing my working habits a bit: I decided to use Evernote instead of Google Docs for my on-the-go work, and to depend on iOS's built-in Mail and Calendar apps, plus IM+ for my messaging needs, to cover the bases.
The acclimation process is kind of a pain. Although I can comfortably set up a new PC to replicate my ideal workflow in 30 minutes or so (thanks mostly to RockMelt and Ninite, which make it easy to migrate my Web bookmarks and settings, as well as to batch-install my preferred apps), I'm still working on fitting my life around the iPad. I can't multitask the way I do on a PC--chatting with a coworker while working on a document is tough. But I have noticed that I'm able to concentrate much longer on a single task.
Overall, the iPad isn't better or worse than a PC--it's just better and worse at different tasks. Writing is surprisingly fun on the iPad, even without a Bluetooth keyboard. Editing a text document with a touchscreen is a bit more difficult.
Surprisingly enough, the iPad/dumb-phone combo costs about the same as the Chromebook/dumb-phone combo: $600 for a 16GB iPad 3G, plus $50 per month for the 5GB data plan. Add the same T-Mobile $30-per-month prepaid plan to your bill, and you're looking at about $630 for the initial expense (not counting tax) and $960 each year for your mobile Internet and voice/text service--not much of an Apple tax here.
The Bottom Line: People who say you can't get "real work" done on a tablet are wrong. You certainly can, but you might need to take a while to figure out the best way to do it. Once you do, however, it's far easier (and less frustrating) than trying to work with a Windows or Chrome OS netbook. I also found mobile broadband to be much more useful on the iPad's relatively roomy display than it was on the Evo Shift 4G in combo #1.
If you need Windows-only applications to do your job, you don't have much of a choice: Go for a slick ultraportable like the Samsung Series 9 over a netbook. The laptop may cost more, but the usability is worth the investment. (You also might be able to get by with a tablet and a good VNC application to access your home/work PC remotely, if you don't need those applications often.)
Otherwise, I highly recommend the 3G-tablet/dumb-phone combination. Working with a 3G tablet is a wholly different experience from working with a PC--and in my case, it's preferable.
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
AMD reveals pricing for eight-core Bulldozer processor: $320So we know that AMD has delayed production slightly for its new eight-core “Zambezi” processor, that it’s rolling out the FX brand again for the unlocked eight-core Bulldozer CPU, and that it will even deliver that CPU in a tin box. (See my earlier post from today.) We’ve been waiting to find out the two biggest things, however: how well it performs and how much it costs. We still don’t know how it stacks up in benchmarks against Intel’s Sandy Bridge chips, but chip scribe Theo Valich found out from AMD at E3 this week how the company plans to price the octo-core processor. In his Bright Side of News post, Valich says that the eight-core FX Black Edition Processor will cost around $320 when it launches in a couple of months. That places it squarely in the range of Intel’s unlocked Core i7-2600K quad-core, which means that reviewers will no doubt pit the two against one another when testing the new AMD CPU. Will the four additional cores translate to enough extra performance to compete effectively with the top Sandy Bridge to date? We still don’t know core clock speeds, but AMD is apparently working to make sure that applications can start taking advantage of all eight cores. Is $320 the right price for you to consider buying this forthcoming AMD eight-core CPU? Let us know in the Comments section.
So we know that AMD has delayed production slightly for its new eight-core “Zambezi” processor, that it’s rolling out the FX brand again for the unlocked eight-core Bulldozer CPU, and that it will even deliver that CPU in a tin box. (See my earlier post from today.) We’ve been waiting to find out the two biggest things, however: how well it performs and how much it costs.
We still don’t know how it stacks up in benchmarks against Intel’s Sandy Bridge chips, but chip scribe Theo Valich found out from AMD at E3 this week how the company plans to price the octo-core processor. In his Bright Side of News post, Valich says that the eight-core FX Black Edition Processor will cost around $320 when it launches in a couple of months.
That places it squarely in the range of Intel’s unlocked Core i7-2600K quad-core, which means that reviewers will no doubt pit the two against one another when testing the new AMD CPU. Will the four additional cores translate to enough extra performance to compete effectively with the top Sandy Bridge to date? We still don’t know core clock speeds, but AMD is apparently working to make sure that applications can start taking advantage of all eight cores.
Is $320 the right price for you to consider buying this forthcoming AMD eight-core CPU? Let us know in the Comments section.
WIN7 vs WINXP
Forrester: Windows 7 powering 21 percent of corporate desktops; XP still at 60 percent:
By the end of March 2011, Windows 7 was powering 20.9 percent of corporate PCs, according to a new Forrester Research report, while Windows XP was on 60 percent of business PCs — down from 69 percent a year ago.
Forrester’s report, “Corporate Desktop Operating System And Browser Trends, Q2 2010 To Q2 2011″ included results from Forrester’s analysis of more than 400,000 client PCs at 2,500 companies. The June 16 report includes 12 months of data collected between the start of the second calendar quarter of 2010 through the end of the first calendar quarter of 2011.
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As hardware continues to age, the Windows 7 deployment pace is accelerating, the Forrester researchers said, as “I&O (infrastructure and operations) teams tie their upgrade into the natural PC refresh cycle of their business.”
On brand-new PCs being deployed by businesses, Windows 7 usage is even higher (at 31 percent). Forrester is predicting that number (Windows 7 deployment on brand new business PCs) will hit 83 percent within a year.
Adding to the Windows 7 upgrade pace is the fact that Windows Vista is on its way out, the researchers said. “Windows Vista adoption peaked at nearly 14% in November 2009, and its share has since shrunk in half as firms upgrade their employees to Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1).”
Windows XP share was also down among business users over the past year, Forrester noted, declining 9 points, to 60 percent. But XP still remains, by a long shot, the “most widely deployed desktop OS” among those surveyed.
As other market watchers have found, on the browser share side, Microsoft isn’t faring as well as it is with Windows — despite the fact that IE 8 was bundled with Windows 7.
Overall Internet Explorer usage declined over the past year, as users abandoned IE 6 for Firefox, Chrome and IE 8, Forrester found. (IE 9 adoption didn’t figure into this report, as the final version of IE 9 wasn’t released until mid-March 2011.)
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Forrester’s report, “Corporate Desktop Operating System And Browser Trends, Q2 2010 To Q2 2011″ included results from Forrester’s analysis of more than 400,000 client PCs at 2,500 companies. The June 16 report includes 12 months of data collected between the start of the second calendar quarter of 2010 through the end of the first calendar quarter of 2011.
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As hardware continues to age, the Windows 7 deployment pace is accelerating, the Forrester researchers said, as “I&O (infrastructure and operations) teams tie their upgrade into the natural PC refresh cycle of their business.”
On brand-new PCs being deployed by businesses, Windows 7 usage is even higher (at 31 percent). Forrester is predicting that number (Windows 7 deployment on brand new business PCs) will hit 83 percent within a year.
Adding to the Windows 7 upgrade pace is the fact that Windows Vista is on its way out, the researchers said. “Windows Vista adoption peaked at nearly 14% in November 2009, and its share has since shrunk in half as firms upgrade their employees to Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1).”
Windows XP share was also down among business users over the past year, Forrester noted, declining 9 points, to 60 percent. But XP still remains, by a long shot, the “most widely deployed desktop OS” among those surveyed.
As other market watchers have found, on the browser share side, Microsoft isn’t faring as well as it is with Windows — despite the fact that IE 8 was bundled with Windows 7.
Overall Internet Explorer usage declined over the past year, as users abandoned IE 6 for Firefox, Chrome and IE 8, Forrester found. (IE 9 adoption didn’t figure into this report, as the final version of IE 9 wasn’t released until mid-March 2011.)
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“Overall IE use is slowly eroding as firms replace legacy Windows XP systems with IE6. In fact, through March 2011, IE use declined to 58.7%. As firms deploy Windows 7, I&O managers need to ensure that their web applications are compatible with IE8.”Google’s Chrome browser is gaining wide acceptance among enterprise users, reaching 14 percent share among those surveyed by Forrester by the end of Q’1 2011. Firefox usage was nearly 18 percent by the end of March among the surveyed base, a solid number that Forrester researchers attributed to Firefox’s firm entrenchment within many businesses “thanks to the proliferation of add-ons that simplify and automate everyday tasks.”
How Apple has responded to Mac malware
The cat and mouse game between Mac and malware
A month after the first customers called its support lines for help, Apple responded to the Mac Defender outbreak with a security update that attempts to block new infections and remove malware that's already been installed. But the bad guys haven't been standing still. They've renamed their hostile software (Mac Shield) and produced at least 15 new versions, forcing Apple to respond with a new set of definitions every day this month.
For more details, see "Has Apple done enough to fight malware on Macs?"
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