By contrast, he said, many people were still using very old versions of IE.
Many of these systems are running very old versions of Windows that are susceptible to viruses from years ago.
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For instance, many completely block access to archive sites like the Wayback Machine which hosts databases made up of old versions of webpages.
Twitter.com itself keeps alternating between its new and old versions, so we suspect there's quite a bit of work going on behind the scenes at present.
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Because neither IE6 or IE7 are supported by Windows 7, a lot of enterprises are still running their computers on Windows XP, old versions of Java, and IE6 or IE7.
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Until then, it will be stuck selling machines that run its old versions of Unix, with questionable ability to switch the systems over to the new Itanium technology when it arrives.
The new Kinect -- which we've heard of in the past -- is said to capture up to six people at once, and an alleged image demonstrating the difference between new and old versions of the camera puts much higher specs on said device (1920x1080 color resolution, more trackable joints, improved depth resolution, etc.).
Electronic or more tech-laden versions of old standbys are even bigger wastes of money.
McDonald plows the savings back into new products, or at least new versions of old products.
Drug companies have taken a lot of flack for trying to switch patients to such new-and-improved versions of old drugs.
Some chefs have begun reviving old techniques, creating updated versions of the kinds of dishes offered by Lin Heung and its peers.
And Lipitor is being hurt by copycat versions of its old rival, Merck 's Zocor, which will get cheaper and cheaper due to competition among generic drug makers.
As cancer costs explode, Ziopharm is one of a handful of biotech companies focusing on lower cost cancer drugs by coming up with less toxic versions of neglected old chemotherapy drugs.
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And Lipitor is being hurt by copycat versions of its old rival, Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Zocor, which will get cheaper and cheaper due to competition among generic drug makers.
Every day, the utility replaces 1, 200 old-fashioned meters with digital versions that can collect information without human help, generate more accurate power bills, even send an alert if the power goes out.
News organisations are currently bearing two sets of costs those of printing and distributing their product for the old world, and providing digital versions for the new even though they have yet to find a business model that works online.
Sure, include a remastered soundtrack and make them look all spiffed up for the Blu-Ray, but give us the old films back, not the new bastardized versions Lucas foisted upon us for no good reason other than vanity and boredom.
U.S. sales of the civilian versions of the famous Kalishnikov AK-47 s, old under the brand name Saiga, rose by 50% in 2011, The New York Times reported from Russia on Aug 14, 2012.
He opened a closet and pulled out a plastic tub filled with reams of graph paper documenting early versions of the Ithkuil script and twenty-year-old sentence conjugations handwritten in marker on a mishmash of folded notepads.
From there, you can install virtual versions of almost any other operating system--be it an old copy of Window's XP or a fresh copy of the latest Linux-based Ubuntu release.
It will be made of plain old steel, and it will be built in Doraville, Georgia, along with versions that will be offered as Chevrolets, Buicks and Pontiacs.
Disconcerting to some locals, Widecombe's ancient tavern, the Old Inn, has been transformed into a Mayfair-style wine bar that nonetheless offers solid versions of the traditional roasts for Sunday lunch.
The new Snapdragon 800 and 600 chipsets (the old S1-4 nomenclature has been replaced with 200-800) are built on two new versions of the Krait architecture, which Qualcomm introduced last year and has been very well adopted by the smartphone industry ever since.
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Users might get to choose versions of the game based upon the various musical themes the band touched upon, such as the Old West, biblical legends and the cosmos.
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Europol believe the head of the operation was a 27-year-old Russian man who had been in charge of the "creation, development and international distribution of the various versions of the malware".
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Every year, sometimes multiple times a year, we put aside or hand off our old laptops, mobile phones, televisions, or game consoles to friends and family in favor of the newer versions.
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