EU fines Microsoft with €899

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Today the EU commission fined Microsoft with an incredibly high sum of €899 for ostensibly unreasonable license fees, Microsoft took before October 2007 for technical information.

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 : release on March 18th

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

The distribution of the first service pack for Windows Vista will start on March 18th. MSDN and Technet subscribers are allowed to download the pack since February 14th. Everyone else will have to wait until March 18th. The new service pack will be available as a manual download from this day ...

Free Microsofts products for students

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Microsoft wants to give its products to pupils and students, which study on universities or higher schools for free prospectively. The proposal ist to get new Windows customers. Bill Gates will declare the facts in a discourse on the Stanford University today. Primarily computer science students use open source software ...

Every 6th Xbox 360 dies the heat blow out

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

The chance that your Xbox 360 will peg out is four times higher then the competing products, like Playstation2/3 or Wii. This is the result of a statistic of SquareTrad, a big American guarantee service provider. The company analyzed 1000 Xbox 360 guarantee issues. About 60% of the defect consoles ...