Solid-State Industrial PC comes with Windows XP Pro.
Featuring Type 4X (IP65) 15 in. touchscreen, Magelis(TM) Smart+ iPC does not require maintenance or contain any rotating parts. It is powered by 1 GHz Intel® Celeron® M CPU and supports Vijeo Designer(TM) HMI applications as well as Vijeo(TM) Citect(TM) SCADA supervisor applications. Along with standard 1 GB RAM, 2 Ethernet ports, and SSD with Windows® XP Pro, computer offers choice of DC or AC …
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Amazon slips out Microsoft’s Windows 7 Family Pack kill date
Sales end 31 December Sales of Microsoft’s Windows 7 Family Pack look set to expire on Friday 31 December, that is if Amazon’s kill date of the product is repeated elsewhere.…
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Skype: outdated Windows version triggered outages
Skype honored its promises today and gave a post-mortem on the reasons behind its worldwide outage. The company blamed the failure on a bug in a slightly outdated Windows version of Skype. After some servers handling offline text chat were overloaded, these older clients — which were still 20 percent of all users –couldn’t handle the delays and crashed, taking down some of the supernodes …
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