New and Noteworthy: Microsoft employee blog on Virtual PC 7; Steve Jobs' back in action report

Microsoft employee blog on Virtual PC 7 A Microsoft employee's blog reveals some of the internal goals and accomplishments of the Virtual PC 7.0 release: " The team will never be done looking for ways to squeeze out every % point possible, and we feel that in this version we significantly improved raw CPU performance. Now remember, I said raw CPU performance. There are a number of factors that will affect overall PC performance, such as disk performance, and machines like G5's with their SATA interfaces are going to be faster launching applications then a PowerBook G4." More.

Steve Jobs' back in action report The San Jose Mercury News has an article titled "The Swagger is Back" describing Steve Jobs' return to the helm after cancer surgery: "'I'm back,'" declared Apple Computer's Steve Jobs on Thursday morning in his first public appearance before reporters since cancer surgery in late July. And it was the same old Jobs at Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, where he unveiled the first of a new line of mini-Apple stores intended for malls and other locations that won't accommodate their full-size cousins. He was noticeably thinner. But he had the same unshakable -- even arrogant -- confidence in his ideas." More.

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