Hey, guess what? Microsoft is planning to stop the distribution of Windows XP as of June 30th, 2008. This will literally force Vista upon PC consumers worldwide, and the support of Windows XP will start to fade.
InfoWorld has started a petition to keep XP on shelves indefinitely, and so far over 80,000 people [...]

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Qtrax, the free and legal P2P service with a promised 25 million songs is now available to download. Check out our full live coverage of the craziness last night, and look for our full review shortly.
Update: 8:20 P.M - You still can’t download music, and mostly all of the album artwork is missing. Hopefully they [...]

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This is going to be the live and updated post about our initial impressions of the Qtrax beta. For those of you who do not know Qtrax is, think subscription based (and of course DRMd) unlimited free music downloads, from the RIAA. Yeah, the last part kind of got us too, but just pretend they [...]

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Today, Xfire announced that they have reached seven million registered users, with the support for over 800 PC game titles. Let’s see what impact Games for Windows Live leaves on this free ad-supported service which has used up over 14,300 man years of gamer’s time.
“Our seven million users constitute a very active community that spent [...]

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It seems that the huge online retailer NewEgg is already selling Windows Vista OEM discs. They have the several different available versions, and have the 32bit Ultimate in stock for only $199.

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Microsoft claims that Vista’s Aero glass interface doesn’t slow your PC down… as long as you meet the minimum requirements. They do, however, fail to go into detail as to how much power it does actually take to run Aero. Maybe they never noticed…
Via TechWeb.
Running Windows Vista’s new Aero graphical interface doesn’t impact PC [...]

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Wired News has put together a Top 10 promised-but-never-released list from 2006. I think it’s absolutely hysterical that some of these products have been on the list forever. Check it out, it’s worth a look and a laugh!
Via Wired News.
Pull back the red curtain and dim the lights. It’s the 9th annual presentation of the [...]

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Remember Terragen, the awesome little free software title that let you create the landscape renders of your dreams? Well, it’s back, and scheduled to be released on December 15th, 2006.
From the Terragen 2 Homepage:
Terragen™ 2 Technology Preview will be the first public release of Planetside Software’s new, cutting edge landscape visualisation software. The Technology Preview [...]

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