Eric Lai

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Tech-ed: More goodies in free Hyper-V Server update

Microsoft says stay tuned for live migration of virtual machines, host server clustering and a number of advanced features in its upcoming hypervisor software

TechEd: Exchange 2010 faster, more scalable than Exchange 2007

Microsoft's upcoming Exchange 2010 will be able to read and write 70 per cent faster than the company's current E-mail software

Android-ARM netbook threatens Atom’s supremacy

A 1.5 pound Chinese netbook using Google's Android mobile operating system on a low-cost ARM chip pose a serious threat to Intel Corp.'s power sipping Atom CPU and might open a market for $200-notebooks

Upstarts outpace BI vendors in data loading speeds

Speed demons. The past several months have seen a number of start-ups and lesser-known firms touting screaming-fast data-loading speeds, some exceeding 4TB and hour, both in the lab and in the field

Microsoft slashes software leasing costs

Finally a cut that's nice to hear about. Microsoft is wooing enterprise customers by cutting software leasing costs by as much as 26 per cent

Windows 7 to come in six flavours

Windows 7 editions will be a superset of one another. As customers upgrade from one version to the next, they keep all features and functionality from the previous edition, says Microsoft

Google claims MapReduce sets data-sorting record

Google says its MapReduce technology can manipulate more data faster than Yahoo's database

Windows 7 will run on SSD netbooks

With a keen eye on the netbook trend, Microsoft says its replacement OS for Vista will run on laptops with as little as 16 GB of storage capacity

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