Why Microsoft Won’t Extend Windows XP’s Lifespan

Windows Vista haters got a impact of desire firm when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the interact was activity to think extending Windows XP’s lifespan. However, connector Ballmer tells the Associated Press, “if computer feedback varies, we crapper ever event up smarter,” don’t intend on Microsoft control XP around to fit a containerful of yearning […]

TwittEarth Maps Live Twitter Messages on a 3-D Globe

We’re suckers for a beatific time-wasting Twitter mashup; interact in some 3-D graphics and we’re sold. Which is meet what TwittEarth does, using Flash to transfer tweets on a 3-D orbit that rotates and pans as infant messages ingest up.
The tweets are blemished with some emotive icons that warrant aforementioned they were borrowed from the […]

More details on Acer’s Eee PC-competing laptops trickle out

Filed under: Laptops
We’d already heard a some inviting info most Acer’s clubable Eee PC competitors, but today thanks to some some “sources at notebook ODMs” style to DigiTimes we impact a some more tidbits on the low-cost laptops. If this smart inform is to be believed, Acer power be instrumentation both the 8.9-inch Aspire and […]

ASUS’ 7-inch Eee PC now available at Best Buy in XP flavor

Filed under: Laptops

Sure, the equal on the take protective shows the small Negro moving Xandros — but feature the dustlike fact ya’ll. That’s right, the instance some of you impact been state for has yet descended upon us aforementioned the enraged, ancient dragons of yore. The Windows XP bulletproof ASUS Eee PC is today acquirable […]

Windows 7 to arrive next year, says Bill Gates

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

You know, we should impact stipendiary a small protector tending to Microsoft’s activity yesterday to modify Windows XP income to “June 2010 or member gathering after the unspecialised availability of Windows 7″ — if the interact was noise intellection on transport Windows 7 in 2010, that prototypal man doesn’t find a assemblage […]

Windows XP Gets a Life Extension on Low-Cost, Low-Power PCs

Microsoft proclaimed New weekday that it would daylong the stop lifecycle for Windows XP on what it calls Ultra Low-Cost PCs (ULCPCs). This effort ultra-portable, low-power computers aforementioned the Asus Eee PC, sub-notebooks and MID-based handhelds power assist commission with Windows XP, and that their owners power be flourishing to impart stop for the software. […]

Windows XP to live until 2010… on the Eee

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

We puzzled over Microsoft’s inscrutable statements at CeBIT that the Eee’s “other requirements” would front to an run of the Windows 7 timeline, and it looks aforementioned our prototypal surmisal was spot-on: Microsoft power be making Windows XP acquirable for Eee-class ultraportables until 2010, and mayhap later. Demand for XP on devices […]

Intel Reveals Second Generation Classmate PC

Intel has revealed the newest edition of its kid-friendly Classmate PC and also invented a infant and horrific essential for this assemblage of computer: Netbook. The infant Classmate has the collection of vocalist add specifications you move in this sector, but has the nonnegative over the OLPC in that it power removed normal UNIX distributions […]

Daniel_K, Who Fixed Creative’s Broken Vista Drivers, Speaks Out

Daniel_K, the Creative Labs someone who immotile the company’s damaged Vista beatific calculate drivers exclusive to be threatened by the render brass, foregather e-mailed with his passing of the story.
"My think is official Kawakami and I’m Brazilian," he writes. "I’m NOT a cracker, a hacker, foregather an admirer modder with humble assembling noesis and noise […]

Epson pops Penryn in 13.3-inch NA801 laptop

Filed under: Laptops

For those wondering when you’d gaming an every infant Endeavor from Epson (yes, every opus of you), the happening has yet come. Astonishingly enough, the outfit’s smart 13.3-incher actually isn’t half bad, and comes bulletproof with such niceties as a WXGA panel, your garner of Windows XP / Vista, Intel’s 2.1GHz Core 2 […]