Microsoft may delay its plan of stopping support for the Windows XP by the end of June, if users would tell them so. But so far, Steve Balmer said, no one has told them to stop the plan, and so they will push through with it.
Microsoft faces more legal fun and games with the US Court of Appeals rejecting Microsoft’s appeal against a previous ruling by Judge Martha Pechman to allow the “Vista capable” lawsuit to proceed as a class action.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is set to decide on whether to approve eBay’s petition for exemption to the Trade Practices Act. eBay, through its legal firm, Deacons law firm has filed an “exclusive dealing” notification with the ACCC to allow eBay to enforce a new payment policy on all transactions.
Weeks after it announced that the life of Windows XP will be extended for another two years, it appears that Microsoft will make Windows XP SP3 available to OEMs, Volume License Customers, Windows Connect users and MSDNT/TechNet subscribers on April 21.
Imagine a memory chip that won’t degrade over time like current flash memory does nor will this new chip break down like a hard drive because it is based upon the spin of an electron, not the spin of a disk. These new memory chips can hold incredible amounts of data and require minimal energy.
Microsoft Product Unit Manager, David Cross has said that Microsoft Vista programmers intentionally included User Account Control (UAC) in Vista to “annoy users”. The UAC, when activated, requires users to run Vista in standard user mode and gives them standard user access instead of administrator privileges. It even gets more annoying when users try to install a program and the system would prompt them each time.
The Australian government has called for bids to build a high-speed broadband network, and has offered up to AUS$4.7 billion in funding, matching dollar for the dollar the funding it expects the winning bidder to commit to.
Decisions, decisions. So many new ultra low-cost PCs (ULPC) have come out or are coming out, that putting the specs of each computer side by side seemed a good idea. So, here are the basics statistics of each one.
If the results of the recent survey of 10 Australian retail chains conducted by ChannelNews and SmartHouse is any indication of things to come in the Australian gaming market, Microsoft’s Xbox may well be on its way to the dead pool.
What is grid computing? Grid computing, also known as distributive computing, is a way for incredibly large amounts of data to be spread over multiple network computers for analysis. By using either dedicated computers or the unused idle time and resources on volunteer computers, a project that might take hundreds of years can be completed in a few months. CERN’s new dedicated internet called The Grid, will allow the data collected from the Large Haldron Collider(LHC) to be distributed over networked academic and research facility computers in countries around the world.