ونڈوز سیون مایوس نہیں کرے گا

ونڈوز سیون

برطانیہ میں نیا آپریٹنگ سسٹم سکائی کے ساتھ شریک ہو کر آن ڈیمانڈ سکائی پلیئر سروس فراہم کرے گا جس سے صارفین ونڈوز میڈیا سینٹر کے ذریعے لائیو اور آن ڈیمانڈ ٹی وی پروگرام بھی دیکھ سکیں گے۔

مائیکرو سافٹ نے سرکاری طور پر ونڈوز ورژن سیون کا افتتاح کر دیا ہے اور کہا ہے کہ طرح طرح کے فیچرز سے بھرپور اس نئے آپریٹنگ سسٹم میں صارفین کے مشوروں اور ضروریات کو مدِ نظر رکھا گیا ہے۔

مائیکرو سافٹ نے اس امید کا بھی اظہار کیا ہے کہ ونڈوز سیون وہ آپریٹنگ سسٹم ہے جو ’آپ کو مایوس نہیں کرے گا۔‘

سرکاری طور پر ونڈوز کے اس نئے ورژن کا افتتاح لندن میں بدھ اور جمعرات کی درمیانی شب کیا گیا۔

نیا سافٹ ویئر’ونڈوز سیون‘ ونڈوز وِسٹا کے بعد کا ورژن ہے اور کمپنی کا کہنا ہے کہ اس بار وہ سب کچھ نہیں ہوگا جو ونڈوز وِسٹا کے اجرا کے موقع پر ہوا تھا۔

ونڈوز وسٹا کے اجرا پر صارفین نے شکایت کی تھی کہ یہ پروگرام دوسرے کئی سافٹ ویئرز سے ہم آہنگی نہیں رکھتا جس کی وجہ انہیں اپنے کمپیوٹروں پر مزید رقم خرچ کرنی پڑی۔

مائیکروسافٹ کا کہنا ہے کہ ونڈوز سیون کی دوسرے تمام پروگرموں سے ہم آہنگی ہو گی اور صارفین کو ونڈوز سیون استعمال کرنے کے لیے نئے کمپیوٹر یا موجودہ کمپیوٹر کے اپ گریڈ پر مزید رقم خرچ کرنے کی ضرورت پیش نہیں آئے گی۔

تاہم ونڈوز سیون کا اپنے حریفوں سے کڑا مقابلہ ہے۔

برطانیہ میں نیا آپریٹنگ سسٹم سکائی کے ساتھ شریک ہو کر آن ڈیمانڈ سکائی پلیئر سروس فراہم کرے گا جس سے صارفین ونڈوز میڈیا سینٹر کے ذریعے لائیو اور آن ڈیمانڈ ٹی وی پروگرام بھی دیکھ سکیں گے۔

برطانیہ میں مائیکرو سافٹ کے مینجنگ ڈائریکٹر ایشلے ہائیفیلڈ کا کہنا تھا کہ ونڈوز سیون کے ذریعے مائیکروسافٹ اور صارفین کے درمیان ایک نئی صبح کا آغاز ہوا ہے۔

ونڈوز وسٹا کے اجرا کے بعد صارفین نے شکایت کی تھی کہ یہ سسٹم کئی دیگر ایپلیکیشنز کے ساتھ ہم آہنگ نہیں ہے

انھوں نے کہا ونڈوز سیون صرف نئے فیچرز کا نام نہیں بلکہ اس میں اور بھی بہت کچھ ہے۔’صارفین جو چاہتے تھے ہم نے اس کا خیال رکھا ہے اور صارفین اپنے لیے آسانیاں چاہتے تھے۔‘

ونڈوز سیون کی بیٹا ٹیسٹنگ آٹھ ملین سرکاری یوزرز کے ذریعے ہوتی رہی ہے جبکہ سات ملین غیر سرکاری یوزرز نے بھی اس نظام کو ٹیسٹ کیا ہے۔

مائیکروسافٹ نے کچھ عرصہ پہلے کہا تھا کہ اس نے ماضی سے سبق سیکھا ہے اور اپنے پارٹنرز کے ساتھ ملکر ایک ایسا سافٹ ویئر تیار کیا ہے جو تمام پرانے سافٹ ویئرز سے مطابقت رکھتا ہے۔

انہوں نے کہا جن صارفین کے کمپوٹر ونڈوز وسٹا چلانے کی صلاحیت رکھتے ہیں وہ ونڈوز سیون بھی چلا سکیں گے۔

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Intel® Chipset Software Installation Utility

How to confirm installation of the Intel® Chipset Software Installation Utility

Installation of the Intel® Chipset Software Installation Utility can be confirmed using:

* Device Manager
* System registry


Device Manager

To confirm installation using Device Manager, perform the following steps:

1. Identify the chipset.

2. Display the PCI bus entry in Device Manager.

For Windows Vista*:
Click Start » Control Panel » System and Maintenance » Device Manager and expand the System devices listing.

For Windows* XP:
Click Start » Control Panel , double-click the System applet, and then select Hardware » Device Manager and expand the System devices listing.

For Windows* 95, Windows* 98, Windows 98 Second Edition (SE), and Windows Millennium Edition* (Me):
Click Start » Settings » Control Panel , double-click the System applet, and then select Device Manager and expand the System devices listing.

For Windows* 2000:
Click Start » Settings » Control Panel , double-click the System applet, and then select Hardware » Device Manager and expand the System devices listing.

For Windows NT* 4.0:
The Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility is not required. It gets updated by installing Service Pack (SP) updates that are available from Microsoft*.

3. Locate your chipset. If the device name listed for the chipset matches what is shown in Device Manager, then the Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility has been installed.
# Intel® 900 Series Express Chipset Family
# Intel® 800 Series Chipset Family

System Registry

To confirm installation using the system registry, perform the following steps:

CAUTION : Do not attempt to view or edit the registry if you do not understand what you are doing. Editing the registry can cause your installation of Windows to become unusable.

1. Click Start .
2. Click Run .
3. Type in regedit and click OK .
4. Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE .
5. Expand Software .
6. Expand INTEL .
7. Select InfInst .1
8. Look at the Install key. A value of "success" means that the installation was successful.

1 If the system was installed using an unattended installation or a sysprep installation , the "InfInst" key may not exist even if the Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility was properly installed.

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Intel Plans for an Embedded Future

Intel’s embedded roadmap is increasingly being accepted in vertical markets where better performance, lower power, and reduced heat are becoming more critical considerations. That roadmap also is encountering competition in a variety of markets in which Intel has never been a force—as well as in places where companies that previously weren’t considered competitors are looking to expand. Most industry observers expect fireworks over the next several years as all of these companies pursue a collision course.

Over the last few years, Intel has been pushing heavily into the embedded market as part of its long-term growth strategy. Unlike some of its previous attempts to expand its market beyond PCs, which included everything from videoconferencing to communications servers, the embedded market is viewed as a logical extension of its core market. That opens the door for Intel to get involved in everything from consumer devices with its new Intel® Atom™ processor to rugged industrial and military applications.

One of the better-known markets in which the processor giant has seen early success is the Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA), which is the carrier-grade equipment market, as well as its scaleddown offshoot, MicroTCA. Both have been hot markets for Intel’s newest chips—in part because the markets themselves are relatively new and because Intel has greatly boosted its commitment to developing technology in this space. That was a big first win for Intel’s chip lineup. But the newest chips are finding their way into a host of other markets as well. Those new opportunities include a variety of industrial applications ranging from medical imaging to the industrial control of everything from trains to tanks.

The newest dual-core, 2.53-GHz Intel® Core™2 duo processor, which is built at the 45-nm process node, is opening even more doors. “As compared to the previous generation, the newest chips are much better,” says David Pursley, field applications engineer at Kontron. “A 65-nm Intel Core 2 Duo processor at 1.6 GHz versus a 45-nm chip at 2.53 GHz is a big difference. Because of the process shrink, we’ve got a lower overall power envelope and better thermals.”

By way of a real-world example, consider the migration of medical-imaging technology. It started out a decade ago in a selfcontained selfcontained room in some hospitals. This technology took up so much space that many hospitals couldn’t add it even if they could afford it. According to Pursley, medical-imaging technology has since shrunk to the point where it can be used in medical-imaging outpatient offices. In addition, the technology is about to go mobile in hospitals. It will be wheeled around on carts so that the imaging can be done at the bedside instead of in a separate room.

In that type of application, heat and a rugged shell are very important. But performance is even more critical. A mobile imaging device is like a single-board supercomputer, which has to run an enormous number of parallel calculations to arrive at a cohesive image.

Intel’s roadmap runs as broad as it does deep. The new Intel Atom processor, for example, is based on the x86 Intel® architecture. The chipmaker is positioning it—among other things—as a replacement for microcontrollers. After all, it’s easier to develop software for the x86 architecture. But the other three pieces of its embedded lineup—Network processors, PXA2XX processors, and the I/O processors—cut a wide swath across the embedded space. They also utilize standard ARM development tools. As a result, developers in this space won’t have to retool their skills to work with Intel’s offerings.

Obviously, Intel will have serious competition in this market. The reason that the company has included ARM-developmenttool compatibility is significant. ARM is the incumbent in the embedded-processor market. In addition, ARM’s customer base is enormous and varied. But Intel’s push into markets dominated by ARM—and, to a lesser extent, MIPS—signals just how important the embedded market has become.

ARM is pushing back as well. The company has been running a campaign showing that in real-world settings, its processor cores are performing better than Intel’s. At the Common Platform conference in Santa Clara, Calif., ARM president Tudor Brown compared his company’s Cortex-A8 and the forthcoming A-9 versus the Intel Atom processorin terms of power consumption and area. He argued that ARM’s chip consumes 25% of the power in 25% of the ARM is pushing back as well. The company has been running a campaign showing that in real-world settings, its processor cores are performing better than Intel’s. At the Common Platform conference in Santa Clara, Calif., ARM president Tudor Brown compared his company’s Cortex-A8 and the forthcoming A-9 versus the Intel Atom processorin terms of power consumption and area. He argued that ARM’s chip consumes 25% of the power in 25% of the

In this war of words, being right may depend upon the individual application, the applications that are being used, and familiarity with the development platform. A single-core processor, for example, can perform better than a lower-clock-speed multicore processor if the application cannot take advantage of all of the cores. If a lower-power chip is needed, however, performance may sometimes be less essential than some of the energy-saving techniques employed in the chip.

“What’s happening here is the PC architecture is moving into the mobile market and ARM is moving into what I would call the larger mobile market,” states Dean Freeman, an analyst at Gartner. “There will be a collision as they hit common ground. ARM has been doing mobile for some time and they’re expanding. Intel is coming from the PC space and now they’re moving in.”

The collision of the two companies and their architectures mirrors the convergence that’s occurring in the consumer and business markets. There, the PC is the one tool that’s connected to more portable devices when users need more mobility. An example is when a user is commuting to work or traveling, but doesn’t want to lug along his or her notebook computer.

Intel also faces an uphill battle if it plans to displace some of the microcontrollers. While the ability to program an x86 processor is simpler than programming a microcontroller, not all applications require that kind of upgradeability. Justin Rattner, Intel’s CTO, explains that automotive companies in particular want to see that kind of programmability to be able to add new features as they become available. But automobile manufacturers often have multiyear design cycles, which make that kind of upgradeability more attractive there than it is in other markets. In the case of the Intel Atom processor replacing microcontrollers in things like motor control, the jury may be out for several years.

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Nokia's XpressMusic 5530 Review:

Nokia has announced that its XpressMusic 5530 handset will be arriving in the UK on 11 August. Billing it as a rival to LG's "Cookie" handset, Nokia's new phone is a low-end touchscreen aimed at teenagers.

It's going to cost £130, or it'll be free on a £15 per month contract. Which networks will be carrying It hasn't been announced yet, but we'd guess it'll be showing up as widely as possible. It'll be available in black/red and blue/white colour combos and Nokia says the phone offers "superb value for money".

As previously reported, it's a 2G handset, but it does pack Wi-Fi alongside its 2.9-inch resistive touchscreen, 3.2-megapixel camera and 3.5mm headphone jack. It runs at the same resolution as the N97, but the screen is smaller, so expect crisp images compared to Nokia's flagship handset.

Keep an eye on Pocket-lint for a full hands-on video and review.

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Nokia 6720 Classic mobile Review:

Nokia has just announced a new phone at the start of Mobile World Congress they have introduced the Nokia 6720 Classic Phone. This phone makes sure that people also get the best voice experience with the curved design fitting perfectly to the users face and new active noise cancellation, a feature appearing for the first time in the Nokia 6720 classic, which significantly improves the quality of voice by cutting down on external ambient sounds. Of course, all other features one requires are easily accessible with up to 20 days of standby time, high speed uplink and downlink Internet access and a TV-out connection for sharing images and video.

The Nokia 6720 classic is expected to begin shipping in the second quarter of 2009 at an estimated retail price of 245 EUR before taxes and subsidies.

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