Windows 7 price

Microsoft announce the prices for Windows 7 ... and surprise ... for preorder the prices are lower than the prices for Windows Vista.

The prices are from newegg.com

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit 1PK DSP OEI DVD English - OEM for $134.99
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 1PK DSP English Full - OEM for $99.9
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit 1PK DSP English Full - OEM for $109.99
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit 1PK DSP OEI DVD English - OEM for $174.99
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 32-bit 1PK DSP OEI DVD English - OEM for $134.99
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit 1PK DSP OEI DVD English - OEM for $174.99

Windows for Free

From today, 5 may 2009, Windows 7 Release Candidate , the new test stable version, will be free until June 2010. This version will be a full one without any limitation. You can get your copy from http://www.microsoft.com/windows7 and also you can get the serial for this version. One of the most expected features of windows 7 will the "XP mode" :) :) :). XP mode will help you to install XP application under Windows 7 (still a crap).

Hardware requirements:
CPU: 1Ghz
RAM: 1G/32bit 2G/64bit
HDD: 16G for 32bit vresion and 20Gb for 64 bit version.
GPU: Compatible DirectX 9 cu driver WDDM 1.0

Let's don't forget, this days Ubuntu 9.04 and Mandriva 2009.1 was released. :D

What is the difference between an apple and a window ?

Linux Foundation started a contest for the best ad promoting Linux. Participants should do the ad in maximum 60 seconds and they need to promote I'm Linux. Was no requirement to mention Apple or Windows. And this ad was not for free. The winner get a free trip to tokyo to participate in the Linux Foundational Japan Linux Symposium.

Read more here: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24408/1231/

Was 90 entries but the best 3 you can see them here:






This is just the third place ... but the finish is so funny
Do you know what is the difference between an apple and a window ?



Other 2 videos what should be mentioned:

Matrix run on Windows

Nice parody to Matrix.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

VLC media player 0.9.2 Grishenko released

After almost 2 years Video Lan Project announced the new release of the VLC media player 0.9.2 (code name Grishenko).

It comes with a new interface for windows and Linux and many many new features.

VLC is known as a multifunctional media player with a lot of features and with a lot of built-in codecs. Also can play various streaming protocols.

With the version 9 of it brings some new codecs support;

AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
E-AC3 (A/52b) support
VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
Flash Screen Video support
CamStudio Screen Video support
DosBox Capture support
Karl Morton's Video support
limited atrac3 support
Fraps support
Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
H.264 PAFF support
DNxHD / VC-3 support
NellyMoser ASAO support
APE (Monkey audio) support
RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
Dirac video support using libschroedinger

For the entire feature list just go here http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS

To download the newest VLC just go here: http://www.videolan.org/

The fastest laptop for MS Vista is ... Apple MacBook Pro

This is just hilarious:

PC World tested Apple MacBook Pro and they discovered is the fastest laptop with Windows Vista.

Read more here

Processor: 2.4-GHz Core 2 Duo T7700 processor,
RAM: Max 4GB
HDD: 160GB
Video: nVidia GeForce 8600M GT