Podcasts This Week in IT Revealed: The Cost of Staying Secure on Windows 10LISTEN ON:This Week in IT, I look at the recently announced pricing for ESUs on Windows 10 if you want to stay secure beyond the end of support date in October 2025. Plus, the different ways you can get the ...
That’s why we developedWindows 10 in cloud configuration.Cloud config is a set of recommended configurations that uses thetechnology infrastructureyou already have—Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Windows 10, and apps—to save you time and money ...
Unit 6 of 9 Manage the update experience for devicesCompleted 100 XP 10 minutes You're aware that a poor device experience with updates can result in devices that are in line with the latest Windows updates. You want to make sure you manage the device experience for updates...
As of Windows 8 and 8.1, User32 hasn’t changed significantly, but what has changed is the ability to support per-pixel alpha blending purely on the GPU and without the cost of transmitting the window surface to system memory. This means I can now produce the effect of a layered window ...
In order for OpenMP to give a performance gain, the speedup given by the parallelized region must outweigh the cost of thread team startup. The Visual C++ implementation creates the thread team when encountering the first parallel region. After that, the thread team is parked until it's ...
For more information about the P/Invoke layer and the various options available while importing Win32 functions, take a look at David Platt's article "Get Ready For Microcost .NET by Using Wrappers to Interact with COM-based Applications" in the August 2001 issue. In Win32, t...
The Cable GuyQoS Support in Windows Joseph Davies This article is based in part on a prerelease version of Windows Server 2008. All information herein is subject to change. Quality of Service (QoS) encompasses a set of technologies for managing network traffic in a cost-effective manner to enh...
The Legion 5i is one of the best Windows 10 portable gaming laptops. Suitable for any level, gamers will love the generous 15" size, the incredible capability, and the stripped back design that turns this laptop into a powerhouse machine. ...
Unfortunately, this is one of the worst things you can do to a disk if your intention is to minimize the frequency and cost of defragmentation. If you've aggressively compressed all file data to the front of the disk and removed much of the free space when you make additional edits to ...
It doesn’t cost you anything. In practice, you need to be aware of the overhead imposed by exception handling, and I’ll address that at the end of this column. To tame the Windows API and make it accessible to modern C++ developers, a class that encapsulates a handle is needed. Yes...