All Entries Tagged With: "Windows"
Microsoft Unveils Latest Windows Server in Beta
(The Hosting News) – Microsoft’s popular operating system platform for server management is finally seeing the light of day with a beta release. The company revealed Windows Server “8” (as it’s currently codenamed) on Thursday. The availability follows a September event in which Microsoft previewed the software. Microsoft’s Bill Laing, Corporate VP of the company’s [...]
Battle of the Giants: Linux and Windows Compared
In the world of superior web hosting, there’s really only two main competitors as far as your operating system goes—unless you’re willing to be some kind of mad scientist, that is. Essentially, every webmaster must face the same battle during the earliest span of their career, staring at that blank server box while wondering, “Should [...]
Windows Hosts with the Mosts
Even today not everyone is looking for the cheapest web host. If you are a serious web developer you may want a wide variety of features at your fingertips without having to pay the fees associated with a dedicated server. For those focusing their attention on Windows web development there are a number of quality, [...]
Top 5 Email Clients for Windows
Since the late 20th century, electronic mail has been saving us precious time by shrinking distances and delivering messages in real time. As a consequence, in the present day you can’t survive the social side of internet without an email address. The newsletters, the Facebook and Twitter accounts, the virtual letters and cards we send [...]
Test Drive: Ubuntu, Vista, or Windows 7
If you heard discussions lending credence to the reasons why it’s worth switching to Ubuntu, you may be a bit skeptical and need more convincing. Thus we invite you to keep reading for an honest comparison between Windows and Ubuntu. A team of inquisitive computer specialists was curious about the elements that make Ubuntu, Windows [...]
coLinux: can Linux and Windows co-exist?
The logo for Cooperative Linux, more popularly known as coLinux, sums up the attempted approach to the platform. Placing the Windows logo and Linux penguin in opposite ends of the yin yang summarizes not just this software, but the problem it is attempting to address. With a few UNIX, Macintosh and scattered other exceptions, the [...]
Tips for Improving Performance of Your Windows Server 2008 Dedicated Machine
It’s common in the web hosting world to compare the relative benefits of operating systems. This masks an important fact, though: in all cases, they are what you make of them. While there are naturally limits to this (no one is running Commodore 64 web hosting), the little improvements you can make to a machine [...]
Building an OS: Microsoft Previews Next Windows
(The Hosting News) – While details regarding Windows 8 have begun to surface more and more over the past month, yesterday’s BUILD conference in Anaheim, California probably revealed more information about Microsoft Windows 8 than anyone had previously known before. At the conference, Microsoft offered a developer preview of the highly anticipated OS. During the [...]
