Windows XP Staying Alive

Windows XP is being phrased out for Vista which has, so far,got a lukewarm welcome from many firms.Dell, Hp and Lenovo are exploiting loops holes in Microsoft's licensing terms to extend the operating system beyond June 30, 2008 the end of the life date.
The news come as Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer hints that XP could live longer if enough customers demand it.Dell is using a clause in the conditions for Windows Vista which lets it provide XP under the terms of a "downgrade license" for the Business and Ultimate versions of the new operating system.

A Veteran Frustrated

I just set here typed all of these term and definitions, and then I didn't properly save them. I guess you can figure out what happen next. I'll not quit I just have to go back in and do them all over again. I just felt like venting thank you if anyone decide to read these comments.

Definitions and Terms

Binary Number system- is a language used by digital computerelectronic circuits.

Decimal Number System-The system found its way to all the Arab counties by A>D> 800, whereit was named the Arabic number system, and from there it was eventually adopted by nearly all the European countries by A>D> 1200, where it was called the decimal number system.
The Base and Radix- is the key features that distinguishes one number system fro another.
Positional Weight-The position of each digit of a decimal number determines the weight of that digit. A 1 by itself, for instance, is only worth 1, whereas a 1 to the left of three )s makes the 1 woth 1000.
MSD- Most Significant Digit-In decimal number system , the left most digit is called the MSD.
LSD-Least Significant Digit-is the right most digit is called LSD.
Reset and Carry- in a decimal number system it start from 0 to 9 and then it start all over again from 0.The Binary System is a little difference it start from 0 to 1 and then it start over from 0 again.

Microsoft Confronts Tough Choice On Yahoo

Steve ballmer is facing one of biggest decisions of his career: Walk away from Microsoft's $42.7 billion acquistion offer for Yahoo or launch the largest hostile takeover battle in tech-industry history.
The choice comes after Yahoo(YHOO,news,msgs) declined to agree to a deal by the Saturday deadline set by the Microsoft's (MSFT,news,msgs) chief executive-and after the two sides failed to make any progress in recent weeks in resolving the disagreement over price that has divided them over the last three months. (Microsoft publishes MSN Money.)

Despites Complaims Record Sales Are High

The Sales of Microsoft vista Sales pass 140 millions mark. But that wasn't enough to help Microsoft extend its string of lights-out quarterly financial performances.However , the results were skewed by Microsoft's booking of $1.7 billion in deferred revenue from its Express Upgrade to Window Vista and Microsoft Office Technology Guarantee programs as well as pre-shipments of Vista and Office 2007.

There profit dipped to $4.39 from 4.93 billon , shares from .50 cent to .47 cent per share. Thomason Financial analysts had been expecting profit of 44 cents per share.Microsoft's revenue during the quarter came in at $14.45 billon, up sightly from the $14.39 billon its racked up during the same period last year. Sales were particularly weak in Microsoft's Client division, which is responsible for windows, dropping 24 percent year-on year from $5;27 billon to $4.02 billon.

Semester Coming To a End

I am getting so close to the end of this semester, it bring a certain level of anxiety. There are so many things going on in my life and school is a positive event.
Through all of personal issues I am proud of myself for sticking with my classes. When life bring so many positive things, I just wait for the other shoe to drop.The beauty of life is that the shoe doesn't always drop like I expect it to do. I am trying to expect that those positive things can be a usual event, whether than a rare one. "Thank You Heavenly Father"

Microsoft in court Again

Published by Justin Mann , TechSpot.com

Microsoft finds itself defending the label once again. this time , the class-action suit is digging up information from Microsoft , including email discussions between employees regarding the label. Vista has cause Microsoft a lot of problems. I am just learning about Microsoft and from what I have experienced it has been all good. I have no built in bias about Microsoft and by not knowing about the others programs, such as XP's I am kind of neutral.

Keeping a Positive Attitude

I have tried to keep a positive attitude on a daily basic. I had a positive experience last week-end visiting my family, they re-enforce my energy. If not for energy that I have I probable would not have made this far. Also the staff and other student has been a great help as well. I receive a lot of support from my family, this mean a lot to me. I am not sure what I will do after I graduate, but one thing for sure it has been a great experience,

Ceo Steve Ballmer say Vista is a work in progress

The Ceo of Microsoft Steve Ballmer famously called the much-hyped Microsoft Windows Vista a work in progress . Steve Ballmer said during the conference, there still work to be done on Vista a very important piece of work. I think we did a lot of things right, and I think we have a lot of things we need to learn from"promptly adding. Vista is bigger than XP. It going to stay bigger than XP,

My assessment of Class

Today Class talked about analog to digital,ASCII which stand for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It was good to try to understand how data is converted to AC Electronic Signal and DC Electronic Signal. The three basic blocks within a computer are Microprocessor, Memory(Rom or Ram), and Input/Output Interface. This class gave a difference view of how the computer operate from the inside.

Terms & Concept

1- The basic types of signals are analog and digital.

2- ASCII Stands for -American standard code for information interchange.

3-IC Stands for Integrated Circuit

4- A Digital signal has two levels.

5-Digital communication of characters is possible by using ASCII

6-To digitize is to convert an analog signal into a digital signal.

7- An Integrated circuit is also called a chip.

8- CPU stands for central processing unit.

9- An Analog Circuit is also called a linear circuits, since linear by definition is a variation of an output in direct proportion to the inputs.

10- Multimeter is a device that is able to measure voltages, current and capacitors.

11-OHM-is the electric resistance between two points of a conductor, when a constant potential difference of 1 volt, applied to these points produces in the conductor a current of 1 ampere the conductor not being the seat of any electromotive force

Professor D

I don't know where to start when I talk about you, because if I would of being in someone else class coming back to College the results might be different. You have been very supportive in all phrases of this great adventure. The days when I have that extra wrinkle on my forehead you notice it and then give me support. Without that support I could of withdrew from all of my classes. Its amazing how one kind word or thank you can go so far in your life and someone else.

" Thank You For Everythings"

Class Activities

The Class in Internet Foundation were very exciting yesterday we cover a lot of material. The Class work our Wiki, which is WWKI known as WhatWeKnowIS. There were some links created and a additional page was created. We have cover so much this semester I never expected to learn as much. Its fun and challenging to create something and watch it evolve into something special. For all the things that I have been through, this has been very therapeutic , from the life in Marine Corps and up to the day. There is a lot to be thankful for ,but finally I am beginning to appreciate the beauty of like.

Going To Summer School

I am looking forward to going to summer school. I have that burning fire inside of me, something that I haven't had in a long time. I got that feeling of hope, eventhough I am disable there is something I can do to help other veterans. As I continue in my classes I am hoping to be able to tune to that special talent that I know I have with people. Now is the time to give back since so many people has giving to me over the years. I have been truly "BLESSED" this chance that God has given me I am thankful. Through all of years that I thought that I wasn't going to make it look at me now. I am motivated,hopeful, focus on to what I want to do.

Microsoft Complains About Privacy Online Ads.

Microsoft has proposed a tiered approach to protecting the privacy of people targeted by online advertising, saying advertisers should get permission before using sensitive, personally identifiable information to deliver ads. Microsoft filed comments on Friday in response to the US Federal Trade Commission's request for comments on its proposed privacy principles that would be self-administered by the online advertising industry. Microsoft 's proposal operates under the idea that the greater the risk to privacy, the greater the protection data should receive, Microsoft Official said.

Terms and Acronyms

The terms that were used in class on Wednesday was PHP Hypertext Preprocessor is a computer scripting language, originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. It is mainly used in server-side scripting., but can used from a command line interface or in standalone graphical applications.

While PHP was originally creating by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994, the main implementation of PHP is now produced by The PHP Group and serves as the de-facto standard for PHP as there is no formal specification. Released under PHP license, the Free Software Foundation considers it to be free software.

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. It generally runs on a web server,taking PHP code as its input and creating web pages as output. It can be deployed on most web servers and on almost every operating system and platform free of charge. PHP is installed on more than 200 million websites and 1 million servers, although the number of websites with PHP installed has decline since August 2005. It is also the most popular Apache module among computer using Apache as a web server. the most recent major release of PHP was version 5.2.5 on November 8, 2006.

Yahoo Want a Better Offer

Yahoo said they don't refuse the offer from Microsoft but will like a better offer. They also said threat from Microsoft about hostile take over will hurt negotiation. Microsoft also said if wasn't a agreement before April 26 they will take the offer to the shareholders. I wish that it will all work out for the shareholders in particular,because here lately they're the one that get hurt.

Microsoft Set Deadline Bid for Yahoo

I thought that this was a good article to reply to about Microsoft offer to buy Yahoo for $40 billion. They gave them three weeks to reply to their offer.The letter came from the CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer. Yahoo had seek out to other companies for a offer ,but no ones has come forward as of yet.They has explored with Google Inc.,News Corp's, MySpace.com and Times Warner Inc. AOL no taker. I am very curious to see where this will goes. In this process I am learning a quite of lot about how Microsoft conduct business.

Windows-7

Its seem as though that Windows XP OS has a extended life, do to the dissatisfaction of Vista.The Windows 7 will possibly be released a little early in 2009 instead of 2010.Vista need so extra GHz processor, and 1-GH for memory,40-GB hard drive.

Spring Break Ending

Hello out there in the information highway my school break is coming to a end. It has been good and quite relaxing. Now it time to get back up on horse to finish this semester out with style. I miss the classes and the students and staffs. I am making a attempt to spread my blog out on the web. The more comments that I'll get will help me in preparing a better blog. I haven't heard anything from my classmates during this break. I guess they're just to busy are just haven't called or e-mail me. That okay because I still love them they has been so helpful during this semester. I'll see you soon.

Microsoft Blame Game

In court there seem to be a blame game going on between Microsoft and NVIDIA. There seem to be reported that the graphic part od the driver is causing mostly the clashes. NVIDIA
reported to have caused 28.8% of the clashes,Intel 8.8% and ATI 9;3%. Microsoft data shows that it was responsible for 17.( of logged crashes. There are a lot of comments that support the program of Vista and we're using Vista in our classes. I haven't experience any problem since in being using it in class. Hopefully they all will work the bugs and everybody will benefit in long run.