by Stevie Smith - Jun 30 2008
Bring out yer dead. Mark your calendars of doom in ominous blood-red scrawl, for today is the day that American software beast Microsoft Corp. chopped the retail head off its stalwart XP operating system and held aloft (the still unpopular) Windows Vista as its now unavoidable successor. Flatly ignoring the substantial pleas of its customer base, Redmond-based Microsoft has upheld its decision to stop selling the Windows XP operating system (OS) on June 30, which now means that computer vendors will not be able to directly offer anything other than Vista on their systems when it comes to supplying a Windows OS. However, those prospective computer buyers absolutely unwilling to embrace Vista -- and not keen on the thoroughly respectable delights of a Linux-based solution -- do still have a few ‘last gasp’ options open to them when it comes to legally taking receipt of Microsoft’s seven-year-old operating system.
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Monday, June 30, 2008
Gainward launches two new cards, and they aren't from NVIDIA
By Parm Mann Monday 30th June, 2008
Gainward today announced the arrival of its Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 4870. Yep, that's right, this long running NVIDIA-exclusive partner is now best buds with the Red team, and no doubt less popular with the Green team. The news might provoke a little grimace from the folks at NVIDIA, but it isn't all that surprising. Palit, who acquired Gainward a few years back, have been providing retail cards for both NVIDIA and AMD for as long as we can remember. It was always only a matter of time before Gainward began to do likewise, and the performance-per-pound of AMD's Radeon HD 4000 series is likely to have been the product that gave Gainward the required nudge.
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Gainward today announced the arrival of its Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 4870. Yep, that's right, this long running NVIDIA-exclusive partner is now best buds with the Red team, and no doubt less popular with the Green team. The news might provoke a little grimace from the folks at NVIDIA, but it isn't all that surprising. Palit, who acquired Gainward a few years back, have been providing retail cards for both NVIDIA and AMD for as long as we can remember. It was always only a matter of time before Gainward began to do likewise, and the performance-per-pound of AMD's Radeon HD 4000 series is likely to have been the product that gave Gainward the required nudge.
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Blizzard snubs Nvidia with Diablo 3
Better the devil you know
By Wily Ferret: Monday, 30 June 2008
THE MAKER OF WORLD-CONQUERING MMORPG World of Warcraft, Blizzard Entertainment, has finally announced the long-awaited third installment of the Diablo games series - currently named Diablo 3, with stunning originality. Unlike WoW, Diablo will be a much more straight offline experience, but with the multiplayer dungeon quest elements that made Diablo 2 one of the stalwarts of the LAN gaming scene. More interesting, however, is the development platform Blizzard is going for. Within the official FAQ, there are a few interesting nuggets that will make Nvidia sit up and take note. First off: the game will run on XP as well as Vista, with DirectX 10 being recommended but not required. As if that wasn't bad enough for the green team, which is working hard to shift new DX10 cards, the Direct X 10 included will be of the 10.1 variety - supported by AMD but not the boys in green. This means that the best graphical experience might just be on ATI hardware.
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By Wily Ferret: Monday, 30 June 2008
THE MAKER OF WORLD-CONQUERING MMORPG World of Warcraft, Blizzard Entertainment, has finally announced the long-awaited third installment of the Diablo games series - currently named Diablo 3, with stunning originality. Unlike WoW, Diablo will be a much more straight offline experience, but with the multiplayer dungeon quest elements that made Diablo 2 one of the stalwarts of the LAN gaming scene. More interesting, however, is the development platform Blizzard is going for. Within the official FAQ, there are a few interesting nuggets that will make Nvidia sit up and take note. First off: the game will run on XP as well as Vista, with DirectX 10 being recommended but not required. As if that wasn't bad enough for the green team, which is working hard to shift new DX10 cards, the Direct X 10 included will be of the 10.1 variety - supported by AMD but not the boys in green. This means that the best graphical experience might just be on ATI hardware.
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