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VANCOUVER, British Columbia–The good news for Microsoft is that all the PCs powering the Olympics are running Windows. The bad news: it’s the older Windows XP operating system. Windows 7, it seems, was a bit too new to be used, while Windows Vista was, well, Windows Vista. So, instead, all the PCs are running an operating system that was first released before the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City. Acer has delivered more than 6,000 computers to Olympic organizers–with all the notebooks and desktops running Windows XP. (Credit:Ina Fried/CNET) Representatives for Acer confirmed[....]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia–The good news for Microsoft is that all the PCs powering the Olympics are running Windows. The bad news: it’s the older Windows XP operating system. Windows 7, it seems, was a bit too new to be used, while Windows Vista was, well, Windows Vista. So, instead, all the PCs are running an operating system that was first released before the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City. Acer has delivered more than 6,000 computers to Olympic organizers–with all the notebooks and desktops running Windows XP. (Credit:Ina Fried/CNET) Representatives for Acer confirmed[....]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia–While the Winter Olympics have brought many headaches for organizers, the computing systems haven’t been one of them. In fact, things have been pretty quiet inside the low-rise building in east Vancouver where the technology operations are headquartered. The Olympics’ ‘mission control’ (photos) View the full gallery “In here, our objective is to be bored,” said Atos Origin’s Magnus Alvarsson, one of those in charge of overseeing the Olympics’ IT setup. And from where he sits, just outside the[....]

The Whistler Sliding Centre is one of the many venues for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. (Credit:© VANOC/COVAN) There are numerous companies whose electronics gear goes into making the Olympics happen, but the responsibility for pulling all that technology together rests largely on the shoulders of Magnus Alvarsson. As lead integrator for tech firm Atos Origin, Alvarsson is in charge of making sure all the PCs, phones, servers, and other gear are up and running so that the judges can judge, the athletes can perform, and the media can write about it all. Their systems handle, among[....]