With the shrinking of the form factor for hard drives, power consumption also decreases. This is going to bring the ability to program new functionality into smaller computers. Look for smaller computers such as notebooks and PDAs to be able to run larger and more robust applications. A one-inch drive is expected to be able to hold about 6 gigabytes of data. That should be enough space for voice recognition software and more.
Ruthenium is a precious metal similar to platinum.
If you don't like technical terms, the IBM technicians are calling this pixie dust due to the power of these extremely thin layer of ruthenium. Let's just say new updates from Microsoft have been announced for both products. Windows XP Home and Professional editions are expected to release on October 25th of this year. Office XP is slated to be released in the next few days. There are two features you will immediately notice.