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Over twenty years, Gallup interviewed more than one billion customers, trying to identify what contributes to their satisfaction. Despite all the differences, there are four expectations, which remain remarkably consistent: accuracy, availability, partnership and advice. These four expectations are hierarchical, which means that the lower-level expectations must be met before the customer is ready to pay attention to the higher levels.... more »

There are many articles on the web on this subject. They usually focus on instructions to setup particular type of network. I did not find any comprehensive article that would summarize the most common types of networks for virtual PCs (shared networking, loopback adapter) and point out differences among them.... more »

Microsoft Internet Explorer has the biggest market share among web browsers. It is not popular among web developers, which complain about various bugs and incompatibilities.... more »

Developers spend lot of time optimizing performance of web servers. There are many good reasons for doing this, such as fewer servers in a data center and lower probability of overloading those servers. However, the benefits of web server optimization are often negligible for the user experience. Surprisingly, it might take as little as 10% of the total page load time to download the HTML document that is generated on the fly by the web servers.... more »