Micro Focus buys Borland in US$75M deal
British application-management company buys U.S. rival Borland and, in a separate deal, spends US$80 million on application testing and software quality products from Compuware.
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Windows XP on your notebook
Notebooks came in from the cold with Windows 2000. After the desktop-only orientation of Windows NT, Windows 2000 finally provided notebooks with a robust, protected memory-model operating system that also supported critical features such as standby, hibernate and resume.
Windows XP: entertainment and multimedia
Windows XP extends the operating system's ability to act as an entertainment centre -- even though, for most people, the idea of sitting in front of a PC to watch a full-length film is not currently compelling. That said, as well as offering the usual ability to play audio and video sources, XP's new Windows Media Player (WMP), version 8.
Windows XP: user interface
Operating systems should be invisible according to some, yet Windows XP is anything but. Visually, it's Microsoft's most innovative OS since Windows 95, making more use of graphics than ever.
Installing and maintaining Windows XP
Before installing any operating system, you need to check that your hardware will support it. Microsoft's recommended hardware requirements for Windows XP are a PC with a 233MHz Pentium-class processor and at least 64MB of RAM (128MB recommended).