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Microsoft has announced the availability of beta versions of the first service pack for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Recall that the first service pack for Windows 7 does not contain any fundamental innovations. This update includes fixes that were released during the time that has elapsed since the release of the OS, as well as some other patches, correcting errors and improving the stability of the system.

As for Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2, it includes two new virtualization technology – RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory. Technology RemoteFX provides an opportunity to remotely manage the system, while maintaining the contents of any remote PC screen, including full-screen video applications based on Silverlight, 3D-applications. Dynamic Memory Technology allows administrators to Hyper-V allocate the available memory on the physical host, and from there dynamically reallocate it to all the virtual machines that are working on it.

Press office of the company SPARKLE Computer Co. announced the release of a graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 based on 40-nm chip GT216 with 48 stream processors.

The model of SPARKLE GeForce GT 220 1GB DDR2 Passive (code SXT2201024D2G-NMP) has a blue PCB, created with the use of capacitors with solid electrolyte and endowed gigabyte of DDR2 memory with 128-bit interface. This video card is equipped with a passive cooling system with a large aluminum radiator and a copper heat pipe, and is characterized by reduced energy consumption by 20%.

Accelerator is compatible with DirectX 10.1 Shader Model 4.1 and OpenGL 3.1, supports the technology NVIDIA PhysX Technology, NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technology, and NVIDIA CUDA Technology, and also fully compliant with the Microsoft Windows platform 7. On the frequency indicators novelties accurate yet, set retired to the rear panel output consists of ports DVI and HDMI.

Microsoft took another step in enhancing the competitiveness of its search engine Bing – the software giant is teaming up with service Wolfram Alpha, which issues a search query is not a page of links, and direct response. So-called “computational mechanism of knowledge” ( “computational knowledge engine”) – is the development of physics Volfrema Stephen (Stephen Wolfram). The transaction will lead to optimizing the results of Bing in categories such as nutrition, health and mathematics. Initially, cooperation will focus on the North American market. Bing since it launched in May this year, increasing gradually regains his share. According to Experian Hitwise, in the U.S. service owned 9,57% of the market search services – by 0,6% more than in September (8.96%). However, in the dominant position Google competitor’s success is hardly affected: the company holds 70.6%.

To give a direct answer, Wolfram Alpha “on the fly” searches on the open and licensed databases. Users can get information about simple facts, such as the height of Mount Everest, or convert one value to another. It is also possible to collect different portions of data into a single result, for example, the country’s GDP. The information base is compiled and managed by employees who monitor so that it contains records could be correctly interpreted by the system and displayed on a screen. As stated Wolfram Alpha, a partnership with Microsoft will allow the latter to take “tens of thousands of algorithms and trillions of pieces of data, introduced in the search results Bing. Redmond Corporation notes that will be very popular to use information about nutrition and fitness, as 90 million Americans each year, in selecting a diet.

Collaboration was made possible after the October decision Wolfram Alpha open access to its API (Application Programming Interface – API). API, which allows third-party developers to create custom applications for a particular platform, recently gaining popularity among web services. Computers Internet Blog says thet Facebook and Twitter also use them to enhance interaction with users outside of their sites.