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At the All things Digitial conference today, Steve Ballmer introduced what appears to be Microsoft’s idea for the future of computers. Milan, priced initially between 5-10k, will be bought and manufactured by Microsoft, much like the XBox 360. The specifications were not released. The concept is intriguing, interaction with your computer by touch. We have seen this demonstration, mainly by, Jeff Han and Apple at the iPhone introduction.
Apple has claimed (Steve: “200 patents”, “And boy have we patented it!”) they are well protected when it comes to iPhone patents, and a pretty exhaustive search seems to go along with that idea. Will it be a showdown, or has Microsoft simply found a new way to reach the touchscreen world. Only time will tell.

More later, I am still trying to dive through all of this.

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With 4.7GHz chips (4MB of L2 and 32MB of L3 cache), an IBM p570 server showed an average response time of .625 seconds when handling requests from 2,100 users. That compares to a p570 with 2.2GHz Power5+ chips that handled .983 requests per second for 2,000 users.

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