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REVIEW: rBuilder 5 Streamlines Linux-Based Appliance Deployment

July 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

The 5.0 version of rBuilder boasts several major new features. eWEEK Labs’ tests of the platform, through Version 5.2.1, shows that rBuilder makes it easier to churn out virtual machine images for immediate deployment, and that the Web-based management interface that rBuilder pairs with the appliances it creates is handy. However, Labs did run into some configuration issues, as well as some issues with the new Flash-based Web front end.
– With its rBuilder 5.2.1, rPath aims to streamline the deployment and maintenance of application workloads by providing IT organizations with the tools to roll their applications into Linux-based software appliances that are ready to deploy on popular server virtualization platforms, cloud computing …

REVIEW: Intel Parallel Studio Helps Developers Exploit Multiple Cores

July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Processors with multiple cores are commonplace these days, which has created a need for new tools that make parallel programming easier. To help programmers write code that makes use of multiple cores, Intel has released Intel Parallel Studio, which works hand-in-hand with Microsoft Visual Studio. During eWEEK Labs’ tests, Intel Parallel Studio effectively identifed and helped remediate problems in code, enabling developers to fine-tune programs for use with multiple cores.
– Parallel programming is not easy. I remember back in my computer science college courses years ago studying the problems involved in writing algorithms that make use of parallel processors. This was in the late 1980s, when parallel programming was basically understood but the tools to accomplish it …

REVIEW: Silverlight 3 Is a Powerful Tool in Microsoft Developers’ Arsenal

July 21st, 2009 | No Comments

With Version 3 of Silverlight, Microsoft has brought its development platform closer in line with that of Adobe Flash. However, Silverlight still lags behind Flash in terms of the capability one would expect from an RIA platform. Version 3 of the tool used for building Silverlight apps, Expression Blend, looked robust in eWEEK Labs’ tests of the release candidate.
– With the release of Silverlight 3, Microsoft continues its race to
catch up with the products main competition namely, Adobes Flash. To
a large degree, Microsoft has done a good job, adding many features
that Silverlight lacked compared with Flash.
But Silverlight still lags behind Adobes Flash …

Office 2010 Tech Preview Boasts Updates Great and Small

July 16th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft’s Office 2010, which eWEEK Labs tested in a Technical Preview release, offers welcome enhancements to core Office capabilities, but also breaks significant new ground by pushing Office apps beyond the bounds of the Windows desktop into rich, Web-based versions that perform as well on Firefox and Safari browsers as on Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer.
– Microsoft’s Office 2010, which eWEEK Labs tested in a Technical
Preview release, has quite a bit in common with the past several new
Office upgrades–namely, the new suite is brimming with enhancements to
core Office capabilities, many of which center around exposing the
apocryphal 80 percent of…

Labs Gallery: Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview in Pictures

July 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Just when Windows users started to become accustomed to seeing .docx extensions and to finding their way around on the infamous Office 2007 Ribbon, Microsoft is shaking things up again with a brand new version of its omnipresent productivity suite, Office 2010. eWEEK Labs has been trying out the Technical Preview version of the new suite, and we’ve encountered a raft of really useful new features, particularly around data visualization in Excel. What’s more, Office 2010 is mercifully devoid of major file format or interface metaphor shifts.

This Technical Preview will be accessible to a limited group of testers, but you can try to get added to the list by signing up at www.office2010themovie.com. Expect to see a broad public beta later this year. Until then, check out the screen gallery below for our take on Office 2010 so far.
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