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Vista's day to come? We'll see...

             

Eric Lai's article Vista May Still Have Its Day in the August 25th edition of Computerworld and his blog makes the case that despite all the doom and gloom about Vista-- "home users hate it, businesses are uninstalling it" and Gartner is saying it's all proof that the 23-year-old Windows line is "collapsing" unders its own weight -- it's time may yet come.

    

Lai points out that many people forget all the XP bashing that went on upon its launch. Sure, Vista is off to a rough start, but so was XP - even rougher than Vista's start, according to Lai.

I'm not quite ready to say that Vista is going to knock the ball out of the park, but Lai raises some valid points and has some interesting numbers to back it up. Still, the world is different now than it was when XP was launched, most notably regarding this situation that there are more and better alternatives now. On the other hand, Windows 7 is on the horizon, and Microsoft isn't going to stretch that out as long as they did Vista, right?

Oh, probably.

                   

German encyclopedia Das große PC- und Internet-Lexikon recommends PerfectDisk

From time to time, I point out a few places around the world where knowledgeable and well-respected editors, reviewers, authors and the like have called out PerfectDisk as a superior or worthy choice for users. The intent is really to point out that a wide range of people and organizations from different parts of the globe recognize PerfectDisk as the leader in its category. We're not just putting software out for Washington, DC (our home) or the United States.

Andreas Voss is the author of the best-selling and longest-selling PC encyclopedia in Germany, Das große PC- und Internet-Lexikon. It is currently in its 11th year of print and 14th updated edition. It has also been translated into other languages such as Dutch and French.

As in previous editions, Voss touts PerfectDisk. He writes, "anyone who sets value on a perfect system and optimum performance will want to spend a little more money and buy a high-quality defragmenter. Especially recommended is PerfectDisk from Raxco," while noting that PerfectDisk is "also available as a 64-bit version optimized for Windows Vista x64.

Smarter in all countries.

                               

 

American Library Association highlights PerfectDisk 2008

              

The American Library Association (ALA), a 100-plus year old organization, has a stated mission "to provide leadership for the development, promotion, and improvement of library and information services and the profession of librarianship in order to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all." It's a lot about technology for libraries and librarians, and libraries these days are not your father's card catalog systems. These days, libraries are all about OPACs, or Online Public Access Catalogs. The world is full of information, and while millions go online to get their information these days, libraries are still a big deal in helping get at that information -- some call it Library 2.0.

  

The August edition of American Libraries, ALA's monthly magazine, highlights PerfectDisk 2008 Server in its New Product Showcase. The showcase mentions PerfectDisk's "capacity to defragment multi-terabyte drives," automation, and low resource usage and low free space requirements as particular benefits. Libraries want users to get information fast.

They found one tool that helps in a big way.

           

Russia is on the move -- to PerfectDisk 2008

I'm not talking about Georgia, I'm talking about PerfectDisk 2008 and defragmentation. While no one yet knows what will be the complete fallout of recent political and military activities in this part of the world, there is no question that Russia has been making advances in the IT world. While bureaucracy has perhaps slowed down some of Russia's IT ambitions, it is still producing at least a couple hundred thousand IT professionals a year, as much as India, and doing so with a much smaller population.

                

Overclockers, one of Russia's leading IT web sites, is the latest highly-regarded international site to post a stellar review of PerfectDisk 2008. If you read Russian, you can check out the complete review here. The review discusses PerfectDisk 2008's "combination of high speed, versatility and full control with the ability of deployment to a single computer, servers, in a network environment with remote access capabilities." It has high praise for PerfectDisk's ability to work with "drives of every possible size," as well as the easy-to-use Command Center.

PerfectDisk 2008 "belongs to leaders in this industry segment."

In all countries.

 

Webinar today -- advanced features and capabilities

We're giving a free webinar todayat 1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The webinar is entitled PerfectDisk 2008 Advanced Features and Capabiities, and will cover centralized management, virtualization, Exchange defragmentation and compaction, and PerfectDisk command line options. You can register here. The webinar will also be posted later on the PerfectDisk web site.

       

Building a powerful PC for the daily $4 trillion foreign exchange market

   

The foreign exchange (or currency or forex or FX) market exists wherever one currency is traded for another. According to Wikipedia, it is the largest and most liquid financial market in the world, and includes trading between large banks, central banks, currency speculators, multinational corporations, governments, and other financial markets and institutions. The average daily trade in the global forex and related markets currently is almost (US) $4 trillion.

                                

There are many online communities that are associated with FOREX, and one of the largest is FX Fisherman. FX Fisherman helps people make money in the FOREX world, whether through trading systems, metatrader indicators, or other tools.

One of its fund managers and consultants (who goes by the name Black Knight in FX Fisherman), from Munich, Germany, recently contributed a post to the site in response to several requests to specs for building a high-powered PC for the FOREX environment.

                    

He goes into detail about his specs for a high-powered PC, including processors, video cards, software and more. And Black Knight points out:

"Trading software is notorious for fragmenting hard drives - this is due to the amount of raw data they pull down and then re-calculate every single second to plot your indicators. I recommend running a defrag on your system drive at least once a week, and on your data drive about once a month. The defrag software that comes with Windows is not enough - PerfectDisk from Raxco Software will do a far more thorough job."

High volume, power needed, money to be made.

Solution found.

      

 

Olympic games opening in Beijing -- PerfectDisk heading to China

As the world turns its attention to the Olympic games in China, coincidentally we have just wrapped up our Chinese build of PerfectDisk 2008 in Chinese.

The Games start tomorrow, and yesterday we shipped our final Chinese translation build to our primary Chinese reseller, General Advanced Technology, Inc.(GATI), which also is a big Symantec reseller in China. GATI will be launching the Chinese version of PerfectDisk 2008 in China in September. While there are already thousands of PerfectDisk users in China, they are using the English version. This is about to change in a big way.

 

As the athletes go for the gold in Beijing, the gold standard in defrag is about to be unleashed in the world's most populous country. We're excited to bring it to them.

CHIP India Weighs In -- 4 1/2 stars

           

IC CHIPis a monthly IT magazine published by Infomedia India Ltd. It is the Indian edition of the popular German monthly CHIP, and has a readership of over 750,000. In its August 2008 edition, the Indian publication gives PerfectDisk 2008 an overall rating of 4 1/2 stars (well, they are actually blocks rather than stars...), including 5 stars for ease of use and 5 stars for performance.

You can see the entire article here.