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According to an insider close to the situation, VoodooPC as we know it might not be around for much longer. An e-mail is apparently being circulated throughout the company noting layoffs, although the number of people to be culled is unclear. However, VoodooPC itself wouldn’t have that many employees to begin with, so any layoffs could be a sign of what’s to come. Read more here Posted on September 22, 2008 4:00 PM by Rob Williams at Techgage Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Friday indicated that Windows 7, the next major version of Windows, could come within the next year, far ahead of the development schedule previously indicated by the software maker. In response to a question about Windows Vista, Gates, speaking before the Inter-American Development Bank here, said: “Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version.” Referring to Windows 7, the code name for the next full release of Windows client software, Gates said: “I’m super-enthused about what it will do in lots of ways.” CNET News.com’s Nearly three in four Americans played video games a year ago, a gain of 8 percentage points from the previous year, but a sizable upside still exists in the market, especially for online gaming, according to the NPD Group report. The research firm said that while 72% of the U.S. E-Commerce Times/San Jose Mercury News Ubuntu has released a beta version of Version 8.04 of its Linux operating system that it hopes will make it easier for Windows users to install the open-source software. The newest Ubuntu nixes the need for Windows users to partition a hard disk, one of many changes to the server and desktop versions of the software. Techworld/Computerworld |
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