News for Monday 2/11/08

Windows Vista SP1 availability for technical customers

XenApp! A New Name for A New Era

MORE THAN 12 MILLION AT&T, STARBUCKS CUSTOMERS TO GET FREE WI-FI ACCESS FOR A RICH IN-STORE EXPERIENCE

Yahoo! Board of Directors Says Microsoft’s Proposal Substantially Undervalues Yahoo! and Microsoft Responds to Yahoo! Announcement

Microsoft Agrees to Acquire Danger Inc., Strengthens Mobile Consumer Vision

Netflix picks Blu-ray, good luck renting an HD DVD soon

RIM reports “critical” BlackBerry outage

Ardence Unveils Latest Version of RTX

Ardence, a Citrix Company, a leader in managed control of hard real-time embedded systems, announces release 8.1 of RTX, its market-leading, real-time extension for Windows®. As with previous versions, RTX remains the industry’s most reliable and user-friendly high performance real-time extension for Microsoft Windows. The latest RTX version has a number of key features: Shared Multi-Processor support for Microsoft Windows Vista operating systems to complement our existing Uniprocessor and Dedicated Multi-Processor capabilities, smaller timer periods as low as 1µs, and support for Message Signal Interrupt (MSI/MSI-X) capable RTX devices on all RTX supported operating systems, Windows 2000 through Vista.

ardence.com

Dell boots disks and fires up streamed PCs

Dell today announced a streamed desktop package that will allow customers to manage up to 100 PCs from a single server. As you might expect, Dell will rely on Citrix’s Provisioning Server for Desktops software to send copies of an operating system out from the data center to PCs. By controlling PCs from the server room, Dell thinks customers can cut down on their security risks and management costs - a familiar refrain for anyone familiar with the server-based PC model.

theregister.co.uk