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Microsoft has begun given us the first official 'sneak peek' at it's upcoming Windows 8 operating system, and what we're being shown is a Windows operating system like none we've seen before. Source: Yahoo! News

This is a never ending story built up three words at a time its just for fun and can be very funny, so I would post (I opened the ...) and you may post (door and saw ...) and so the story continues :) Rules - you can only post three words , and lets keep it clean. Start > I saw the ...

The final, conference-ready code for the #decodeme challenge is here. Each year, at the AusCERT conference, Sophos publishes a challenge in the form of a T-shirt. Visit the Sophos stand and you can pick up a T-shirt for yourself. Solve the challenge and you're on your way to winning a remote...

The pat on leg at the end is great! I'm thinking he says "you'll be right."

Ribbon Hero 2 follows the story of Clippy (yes, he’s alive!) and his travels through time as he explores different time periods and tries to get back home. With each time period, the player gets to explore a new game board with challenges they must complete to get to the next level. Each...

Aaron Suzuki, CEO of Prowess, argues that the migrating to Windows 7 has to be systematic, well thought out, and that you have to be prepared to address five specific problems. Link Removed

The 19-year-old is 2.12m (6ft 10in) tall and weighs 127kg (20st) but the world record has brought her a lifetime of loneliness. Her height is down to a brain tumour that was diagnosed when she was nine. It caused a hormone imbalance and impaired her vision. 'She looked different...

Link Removed due to 404 Error 15:25 JST April 6: Workers stopped a highly radioactive leak into the Pacific off Japan's flooded nuclear complex Wednesday, but with the plant far from stabilized, engineers prepared an injection of nitrogen to deter any new hydrogen explosions. Nitrogen...

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show Link Removed. In this episode, Christian "Littleguru" Liensberger joins Steve and Wade as they discuss the Link Removed. Christian explains the purpose of DataMarket, shows an...

Smokey the cat, whose purr as loud as a Boeing 747, to make it into the Guinness world records. Smokey's owner Ruth Adams hopes the moggy can be entered into the record books as the loudest purring domestic cat on the planet. The 12-year-old moggy is 16 times louder than the average cat...

When the content team plans sessions for MIX not only do they take into account practicality and applicability, but they also are tasked with programming inspirational content. And a lot of that mind-blowing, peek into the future content comes from the big brains working at and partnering with...

Laura was out this week so Channel 9 favorite, Clint Rutkas stepped in to deliver all the hottest news coming out of Microsoft. Enjoy: Link Removed Link Removed TEN THOUSAND APPS! SCAN Challenge is LIVE Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed

Photographer Bob Garas has revealed his favourite subject to work with are frogs and he can spend hours waiting for them to strike the perfect pose in his studio. Garas often spends hours working with his subjects – his frogs – waiting for them to stretch for the perfect pose. ‘Every...

Drunk Michal Kawolski was rescued by astonished coastguards after floating out to sea on a sheet of ice while still clasping a bottle of vodka. The 23-year-old was spotted by coastguards as he floated past them off the coast of Gdansk, Poland. Mr Kawolski had been drinking with friends...

The training challenge Ten years of Windows XP means that the whole world knows how to use it, from administrators to users. How much training does it take to migrate to Windows 7?… Free Register Webcast: Data centre orchestration More...

Decisions are easy, jobs are hard Deciding to move to Windows 7 is the easy bit. The crunch comes in planning and executing the migration. Should it be a big bang or incremental? How much new hardware and software is needed? What can go wrong?… More...

Wall Street wonder wanted Microsoft is planning a mid-year show-and-tell of its planned Windows 8 design for tablets, according to a report citing sources inside the company.… Reg Guide to the challenges of Virtualization - Free Download! Source: Yahoo! News

Make a penny, leave a penny. That's how one cash-strapped Michigan woman obtained the 84,000 pennies she used to construct a gigantic replica of a 1-cent coin, which won her artistic acclaim and allowed her to share her inspirational story. Wander Martich says she only started building her...

Who doesn't like a neat yo-yo trick? Even the names of the tricks are neat: "Walk the Dog," "The Throwdown," "The Three Leaf Clover," "Around the World." But the question is: Could you do all those neat tricks with a 12-foot yo-yo? Apparently, a couple in Florida wanted to find out pretty...

Link Removed due to 404 Error BUCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) – Over a thousand South Korean civilians braved sub-zero temperatures around the country to take part in boot camps run by a special commando unit, hoping to get into shape and improve their self-discipline. The boot camps...