Simulation Games by Elizabeth Morgan
Simulation games create a whole new world to explore, one that is virtually realistic. They represent a virtual environment, with virtual characters having interesting and life-like interactions between the various components of a virtual world. The graphics and sounds are often amazingly close... Life games are like living in a game, only in the skin of your fictitious character that interacts with the different components of the virtual world. ... Some games allow you to act as a creator and manage a world, like the Sim City series that include virtual city planning and building with...

Life II: The Ultimate Virtual Reality Experience by Lance Winslow
In the future Virtual Reality may become the future addiction of mankind and it could very well replace drug and alcohol addiction in the human race. How so you ask? Well in the future you would not need a library full of DVD Video Computer Games, as you would only need One; which one you ask? ... Because IT can be anything you want it to be, anytime you want to ditch real life for the Virtual World. ... Well it is already here and it is only a matter of some smart entrepreneur putting it all together and teaming up with Microsoft Gaming.

Advancement in Computer Technology by Saad Shamim
5 years ago we gathered around and marveled at the little specs moving at our commands, doing not much – except moving off course, we called these things games. Today the hardware in computers and other devices has changed significantly; we went from having a “spacious” 1mb hard drive to 250 GB... Well I would love to say that we will be able to put on our virtual glasses that will allow us to explore the virtual world as if we were in it, but this is not likely, sorry guys; however, these sorts of glasses are being constructed but its unlikely they will come out any time soon.

Virtual Reality Travel - Will it Solve the Problem of Global Warming? by Lance Winslow
Consider if you will for a moment the fact that cars, buses and airplanes put out CO2 into the atmosphere. If we are to prevent the (pollution) CO2 from entering the air, that means we cannot drive at our vehicles or fly our aircraft. If we are to cut down on the human emissions of CO2 people... What is interesting is the massive strangle hold that the mass media has on the populous of the world. ... The rules will be fought out in the free-markets just like Microsoft did and the winner will over shadow even their efforts.

Virtual PC - Slicker Than Oil by Don Watkins
When I was younger and worked on mainframes I was always working with pretty mundane stuff; batch processing for the most part with what little online work being done with smaller computers (Buker-Ramo if you must know) with the mainframes running DOS/VSE. ... Oh, I'd tried it along with VMWare a while back and frankly it didn't do much for me either because my hardware wasn't up to it, the software wasn't robust or a combination of both but recently I picked up the latest version of Virtual PC from Microsoft and wow, how the worm has turned, Virtual PC 2004 has come into it's own.

Cross-Platform Custom Software Development & Integration – IT Strategy for Large Corporation by Andrew Karasev
Microsoft Business Solutions products: Great Plains, MS CRM, Navision, Axapta, MS RMS integration with UNIX/Java based platforms & non-Microsoft applications: Oracle, Lotus Notes/Domino, DBII, PeopleSoft, SAP The history of software application development indicates that global trends to... Project Green will lead to Microsoft suites: Microsoft Financials, Microsoft Distribution/Supply Chain Management, Microsoft Human Resources. ... The appearance of C# confirmed the fact, that pure Java conception with its virtual machine and isolation doesn’t satisfy Microsoft .Net development...

Virtualization 101 -- The Basics by Jennifer Hanson
Virtualization is a process that allows one piece of hardware to run a number of operating system images all at the same time. Prior to its inception, the standard for x86 servers was to only run one application to one server. This was fine until more and more servers were needed to meet the... The latest estimates even show that nearly 75% of all companies with at least 500 employees are installing virtual servers, with nearly half of those who are already utilizing the technology stating that of all new servers purchased, close to half of them will be virtualized.

Microsoft Provides Useful Virtual 'Gadgets' by Julia Hall
In the past, the word 'gadget' has almost always applied to a physical object that you could use for some unique purpose. Gadgets could be useful to the point of saving massive amounts of time and energy for their users, or they could be little more than interesting trinkets. ... Specifically Gadgets are now types of programs that are designed to be run on Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system and to be run embedded in a special web based service offered by Microsoft. ... These software Gadgets are available for download from a web site associated with Microsoft and perform a wide...

The Upcoming Battle for Your Desktop: Microsoft Vs Google (Part 3) by Marcelo Reyes
Let’s move on to the last part of this series of articles and take a look at what google has to offer in this battle for the dominion of our computers… A lot has been written about google trying to develop a new operating system (known off the record as GooOS), which would be hosted by a super... Not happy with that, Google now offers us a whole lot more: Google Desktop, a powerful tool to index the contents of our hard drive (yes, it works a lot better than the funny looking dog that hosts file searches on Windows XP); there is also Google Maps which allows us to travel to and look up...

The Third Reality - The End of the Personal Computer Desktop by Romain Marucchi
In this 21st century of terabytes and gigabytes, in this high-definition age where new ideas "seems" to be redefined hourly, in this Microsoft galaxy, Macintosh stratosphere, planet Linux, where the only question left for desktop "consumers" is "which computer desktop define me as a person?". ... In a third reality, in a reality where the current limitations of the personal computer desktop of today are pushed, pushed to the next level, another level where the difference between the real world and the virtual world boundaries are redefined, where end users can interact in a new dynamic...