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Processor | AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Brisbane @ 2.8GHz (224x12.5, 1.425V) |
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Motherboard | Gigabyte sumthin-or-another, it's got an nForce 430 |
Cooling | Dual 120mm case fans front/rear, Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro, Zalman VF-900 on GPU |
Memory | 2GB G.Skill DDR2 800 |
Video Card(s) | Sapphire X850XT @ 580/600 |
Storage | WD 160 GB SATA hard drive. |
Display(s) | Hanns G 19" widescreen, 5ms response time, 1440x900 |
Case | Thermaltake Soprano (black with side window). |
Audio Device(s) | Soundblaster Live! 24 bit (paired with X-530 speakers). |
Power Supply | ThermalTake 430W TR2 |
Software | XP Home SP2, can't wait for Vista SP1. |
Since Windows 95, each version of Windows has had a striking similarity with it's previous versions. However, Microsoft has promised us that all that is about to change. The problem with Windows is that whenever there is a major upgrade, like from Windows 98 to Windows 2000, companies have a lot of trouble migrating from one copy to the other. And so, to resolve these issues, Microsoft is considering virtualisation technology. Virtualisation, which is already being used on servers and is supported by the latest chips from AMD and Intel, basically allows for multiple server instances to run on one platform.
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Microsoft anticipates a major update to Windows Vista around 2008/2009 to add virtualization.Such an architecture would allow Microsoft to make major development changes to Windows without worrying about disrupting dependencies across the entire operating system. This, in turn, would mean the company could release regular updates, and would make backward compatibility easier.
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