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If you want to be a person who buys stuff at the dollar store, you can be that person. If you want to make really cool stuff on your desktop and be the manufacturer, that is a lifestyle.

Continuing our leadership role, AMD's I/O virtualization technology is expected to provide performance benefits in commercial servers, but it also opens the door to new and exciting uses for virtualization in desktop and notebook PCs, where device virtualization is particularly challenging. We have embraced the industry's ecosystem, and are very pleased to continue our collaborative approach to the development of AMD's virtualization technology by sharing this specification publicly and making it available through licenses across the hardware and software development community.

Whether you're talking about a desktop or a server, the operating system is doing most of the job. The application just tells the operating system to go do something, so anything you do to make the operating system faster makes the whole process faster.

We won't see 64-bit running on the desktop until 2006. This is a short-term play for AMD, but it's the right play. If they had gone after Intel and tried to beat them in the 64-bit space, I think that would have been difficult. As it is, it's going to be difficult for AMD to make it into the 64-bit enterprise space.

We won't see 64-bit running on the desktop until 2006, ... This is a short-term play for AMD, but it's the right play. If they had gone after Intel and tried to beat them in the 64-bit space, I think that would have been difficult. As it is, it's going to be difficult for AMD to make it into the 64-bit enterprise space.

Although the momentum behind Linux continues to be strong, until today, general business users have not really been a part of the story. With today's introduction of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, Novell is keeping a promise it made last year, to invest in delivering a desktop that is designed for the business user, rather than for experienced Linux users. Novell deserves credit for addressing the issue of usability head-on, by delivering a desktop that really can meet the needs of the basic knowledge worker.

PC-Duo v4.0 is the most extensive and comprehensive update to our flagship product suite in years. New and existing customers will notice a dramatic improvement in the breadth of depth of enhanced product capabilities, all in the same high-performance, scalable and flexible desktop management offering we've had for years.

We rolled out the Sun Ray architecture in 2001 and have since lowered our desktop support costs and increased productivity considerably. We continue to support virtual display technology as a way to maximize efficiencies across our organization by improving user performance and decreasing the amount of support time required of IT.

We're tired of the endless betas. AJAX lets us do things in the Web browser that you'd historically expect only from a desktop application.

Depending on the industry you're in 10 percent to 80 percent of employees can migrate to a Linux desktop now.