Do you remember if you bought memory between 1999 and 2002? If you did, bet you thought it was really expensive.
A major memory price fixing conspiracy is currently undergoing settlement in the United States, in which nearly every major DRAM manufacturer has been implicated. The alleged price...
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Microsoft’s' newest operating system, Windows 7, has a new campaign out. The advertisements follow certain people around, and they end up showing how "I'm a PC and Windows 7 was my idea".
Of course Microsoft's new operating system was someone else's idea. They haven't had an original idea in...
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in my opinion sadly the only thing you will experience from microsoft hotline is a waste of your time, and / or money.
my reasons were based on the following. i was transferred to three different reps, each of which i was asked my full name, phone number, email, edition of windows and reasons...
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is it CableLabs? the ones who claim that only certain PC's can be "Certified" Digital Cable ready? Digital cable ready doesn't mean anything other than a small flag has been added to a BIOS that enables OCUR. from everything I've read, it can be added to any BIOS.
Is it ATI the one and...
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One of the most amusing things during Windows 7 development was the Internet Explorer story, when MS offered Windows 7 with removable IE, i was very happy and i was thinking sure this will make EU happy as well.
It turns out that the EU wanted much more, and even removing IE completely from...
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Today it has been released that members from the EU Commission are proposing to give Games and similar software a two year guarantee that is currently in place for "tangible movable consumer goods".
If such a proposal was indeed made part of the regulations over the games industry in Europe it...