The Desktop SSHD enables a desktop system to boot in seconds not minutes for an "instant on" experience, run favorite applications faster or simply breathe new life into an aging desktop PC.
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If desktop computers and terminals proliferate in hotel rooms and other locales, Dulaney thinks users could more easily carry personal data files and applications around in tiny memory cards that just plug into any available desktop system.
Customers are then given a range of choices as to how they want to receive those updates including declining it, downloading it for the purposes of evaluating it later, or installing it directly on a server or desktop system direct from the network.
Google executives used the 3.5-hour keynote event today to announce new features in the Android mobile operating system and Chrome desktop operating system and browser.
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More than 10 years after its launch, and more than six years after the launch of its successor, Windows XP is still the number two operating system with more than a third of the desktop operating system market.
While semiconductor makers were coming out with ever more powerful chips, making an inexpensive desktop videoconferencing system inevitable, Austin, Tex.
At 56, Metcalfe looked fine and fit, pulsating through the phone wires at 384 kilobits per second on an Avistar desktop videoconferencing system.
The iPlayer is rapidly becoming a way of life in the UK, and its inclusion on any mobile or desktop operating system gives said OS a badge of credibility.
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It's a compelling proposition: all the power and application compatibility of a laptop running a proper desktop operating system, all the portability and convenience of a tablet, all mixed together in one package.
One reason no one has been able to unseat Microsoft from desktop operating system dominance is that no one has offered a fundamentally different product that actually changes some of these longstanding issues.
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One has to appreciate the chutzpah of Donald Leka, chairman and CEO of Transmedia, maker of the Glide OS app that allows individuals to fluidly access their files no matter what mobile or desktop operating system they reside on.
Bill Gates's software firm is not only facing a host of legal challenges to the way it does business, but is also confronted by a formidable alliance of competitors who are out to end the Windows monopoly of the desktop operating system.
We'll admit: we would have preferred to just tap the home button instead of click on it, especially when we were ready to switch apps, but nonetheless, Android makes for an intuitive-enough desktop operating system, what with the home screen full of shortcuts.
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Running Windows is all well and good, but when you're running the RT flavor, which strips compatibility with the entire, massive and still-swelling catalog of Windows applications, you're left with a desktop-class operating system completely bereft of any desktop apps.
He said the OS has 300 new features and demoed 10, including a new organisational system for the desktop called Stacks and a new folder system which lets users browse files and applications visually, just as music lovers can browse album covers in iTunes.
The program tiles clutter the desktop and basic system functions and information are hidden beneath layers of new links.
Once again, the company has fallen foul of regulators who accuse it of exploiting the monopoly of Windows, its desktop operating-system software, in order to dominate adjacent markets.
Originally developed as a desktop PC operating system, Canonical is looking to bring this Linux based OS not only to smartphones, but also to TVs and the cloud.
The MacBook Air Dock allows users to incorporate the MacBook Air into a desktop setup or home theater system, so users get the best features of a laptop, desktop and media center PC all from one computer.
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Powered by Intel's reliable high performance desktop chipset, this system supports up to 16GB of DDR3 1333 RAM and up to 1TB of data storage.
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Freshly launched editions of Microsoft's mainstays--the Windows operating system and Office desktop productivity suite--helped the Redmond, Wash.
We set out to offer a complete audio experience, from the main audio system, to desktop audio, to portable.
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The Apple system transformed the desktop metaphor into virtual reality by allowing you to directly touch, manipulate, drag, and relocate things.
"Whether you're talking about a desktop or a server, the operating system is doing most of the job, " McCarron said.
Apple has withdrawn all its laptop and desktop computers from the EPEAT environmental rating system, including older MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models.
The new cloud system encompasses all email and desktop applications (such as documents and spreadsheets) for 30, 000 City employees across all City departments.
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In response to demands from Linux geeks, the company said it will begin selling desktop PCs running the Ubuntu Linux operating system last month.
It was a faltering start, but it was also strangely symbolic of my mission -- namely, to explore what Microsoft's latest operating system can do for regular desktop folk.
The Microsoft people described it as a powerful hybrid operating system that could operate as a desktop and a tablet.
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Consider that Facebook has a thriving system for mobile development and even desktop apps (which is the case with Spotify).
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