It’s kind of insane it took a $300 million slush fund from Intel to get notebook makers to create MacBook Air-like ultrabooks, the first results from Asus are, well, pretty damn impressive. More

The scourge of spam e-mail will likely never go away, but Microsoft says new data shows that a few targeted anti-botnet operations can reduce malicious e-mail volume by tens of billions of messages per month.

In July 2010, 89.2 billion spam messages were blocked by Microsoft’s Forefront Online Protection for Exchange service, which is used by thousands of enterprise customers. By June 2011, that monthly total was down to 25 billion. Microsoft, in the latest bi-annual Security Intelligence Report

Continuing the trend started with Windows 7 of each new Windows version placing lighter demands on the system than its predecessor, Microsoft has been talking up some of Windows 8’s new approaches to saving memory.

Some changes continue work started in Windows 7. Windows depends on a considerable number of system services to provide key functionality, and many of these system services start when the system boots and continue to run for as long as the operating system is running. This has two effects; it makes booting take longer, because the services all have to start before the operating system will log in, and these services use system memory.

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How Windows 8’s memory management modifications make for a better user experience