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Introduction: Maps Mailer is an interactive console application designed to stress test your incoming and outgoing and Mail servers. It works by connecting to your SMTP server and from there generates a large volume of mails to be received by your incoming mail server. Once the benchmark cycle completes, MAPSMailer […]
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The company aims to draw users away from Gmail and Yahoo Mail Microsoft on Tuesday began publicly previewing a new webmail service for consumers called Outlook.com that will eventually replace Hotmail. Microsoft also expects that Outlook.com will draw people away from competing consumer webmail services like Google’s Gmail and Yahoo […]
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Two days ago, Microsoft revealed that it would run an upgrade promotion in most markets that would allow Windows customers to buy a downloadable upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99. Joe Wilcox asks if $40 is too much to pay for Windows 8 and current results show that customer […]
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Microsoft works out rift with Linux community over dual boot issue; video efficiency; latest on Windows RT s initial boot security for Windows 8 made it hard to start other operating systems on Win8 machines, but the company has worked out a way for Linux and other OSes to clear […]
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As anyone who’s been to TechEd will attest, the event is not a sprint; it’s a marathon. With hundreds of technical sessions, workshops, labs and vendors, the annual Microsoft event doesn’t lack quantity. But what’s actually worth paying attention to? Thanks to the timing of the event, the published agenda […]
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Microsoft will finally lay out the details on the next version of its smartphone OS, which could be a precursor to Windows 8. June is turning into Developer’s Month. Along with Microsoft’s TechEd, there’s Apple’s WWDC, Google I/O, and a two-day Windows Phone developer conference in San Francisco that will […]
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System Mechanic 10.8 Put Through The Test We’ve all seen those annoying television commercials that promise to speed up a slow computer, but do such solutions really work? The CRN Test Center put Iolo’s System Mechanic 10.8 through its paces and was impressed with the results. Our test subject was […]
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Claiming sales are too weak, did LG make a valid point in dumping Windows Phone, or an excuse to avoid competing with Nokia? How about both? Ahead of a meeting between their CEOs, Korea’s LG Electronics has decided to shun any more Windows Phone products because there have yet to […]
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Microsoft recently released the beta version of Windows 8, and there’s been much early praise, particularly for how well it’s designed to run on tablets and smartphones. But how does this early version work as a traditional desktop/notebook OS? Because an obvious question is why Microsoft elected to position Windows […]