A Californian company is inviting computer owners to turn their machines into a habitat for schools of virtual fish. A company called Dalilab, after Distributed Artificial Life, is aiming to build a giant virtual ecosystem, where virtual fish can...
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I see you've brought your Tablet PC with you. Here he is interviewed by our colleagues in California about the tablet PC, handwriting recognition and Office, among other things. If you can get [a notebook] for about $1,800 with long battery life...
In addition to the new version of Office, Microsoft is also updating its Virtual PC software, which allows Windows programs to run on a Mac, albeit more slowly because the software emulates the PC's x86 processor.
Lees also promised future enhancements in spam blocking through Email Caller ID, a system Microsoft is working on to verify the sender of a message, thus enabling people to block "spoofed" junk messages.
Microsoft is also reporting problems with the Virtual Switch networking feature of its Virtual PC software. Zero-configuration printing and the ability to launch PC programs via the dock are also impacted, it said.