Microsoft: billions of dollars of the compensation for Vista Capable?

The American federal court revealed the next batch of the documents associated with the collective lawsuit against the Microsoft of misinforming customers with marketing campaign of the Windows Vista system. It results from them that the concern from Redmond to settlements with reasons would have to issue the considerable amount to 8.5 billion of dollars.

Still new news reports are coming in from the process about Vista Capable - this time they concern the estimated amount the Windows producer would have to allocate which to settlements with persons who felt misled by the marketing Visty campaign.
An economist made these estimates from the university of the state Washington, Keith Leffler who in the recalled process was called as a witness at the request of reasons.

Leffler thinks, that selling of computers to the PC marked logo "Vista Capable" in the run-up market premiere of the Windows Vista system, that is in the period from April 2006 till January 2007 r. interleaved to the income of the Microsoft of the amount herself with 1.5 bn. of dollars. In his view at that time they sold to 19.4 m. of PCs with the sticker "Vista Capable" who didn't meet requirements of the system (13.75 m. from this number portable computers, but 5.65 m determined - stationary). The economist thinks, that total cost of the update of sub-assemblies of these computers so that successfully they deal advanced Vista versions with, he is located in a period 3.92 - 8.52 of billions of dollars.

Windows 7 Experience Index in details

On the official blog of programmers, dealing with the development for the Visty successor, published fast, in whom novelties and changes of the Windows Experience Index function were described - productivity being responsible for an evaluation of the computer.



For the example in order to obtain the evaluation of the processor higher than, to have 6 points need the minimum quad CPU . similarly the thing is with cards of the graphics. Only owners of accelerators in accordance with DirectX 10 libraries can count on over 6 points (who in fact aren't needed for showing the Aero interface - of Microsoft being based on the ninth API version) and being able to show about 40 - 50 cages for a second in high resolutions.

A fact that Experience Index in Windows 7 was updated is a next lead, so you can expect lower evaluations, than you got in Vista. It is caused among others with implementing a few new tests who in more depth are still checking the productivity of the computer. This issue concerns hard disks mainly (checkouts were added speed cache'owania and of time of the access to data).

Microsoft: PlayStation 3 won't catch up Xbox 360

Some time ago representatives of the company criticised the Sony Microsoft for creating consoles about unusually short stretch of the vitality ". It was supposed to be a main reason for whom with time more customers will buy PlayStation 3 than Xbox 360. Now the giant is examined on Redmond in a few harsh language. Conclusion? For of the war continuation.

Recently representatives accused the company of the Sony Microsoft is creating consoles who after relatively short time are becoming outdated. What behind it is going, would be supposed in the future to sell out to PlayStation 3 in the larger number of copies than Xbox 360.


Representative of the giant from Redmond, Aaron Greenberg, however is matching briefly: "I cannot for myself imagine the situation in whom the Xbox 360 console is starting not keeping up with PlayStation 3. Let us establish very much optimistic for the Sony variant, that sale PS 3 is doubling. At the current sale of our console they wouldn't catch up with us till 2014. "

The AMD chairman is announcing the end of the era netbooks?

During the conference devoted to AMD financial results, get in the fourth accounting quarter, the chairman of this company referred to the matter of the future netbooks. In convincing him differences between notebooks and netbooks will be fading away. And so whether we are dealing with the end of the era netbooks?

AMD chairman, Dirk Meyer, during the conference devoted to get financial results in the fourth quarter about the future a netbooków gave its opinion. In convincing him difference between notebooks and netbookami will undergo erasing. A full continuity of the offer will be gained both in terms of the price of products, as well as their sizes.

Meyer is suggesting Dirk, that netbooks available at present on the market constitute the kind of the compromise. Customers agree loss of the part of the potential of computers PC in exchange for getting the attractive price. The fall in the productivity concerns the graphics in particular. Also a lower potential is significant in the multimedia. From the other side persons who need the efficient computer about smallnesses must take into account with the expense thickly exceeding the level of the thousand the USD.

Sapphire is presenting passively chilled HD 4670

The Sapphire company entered the next version of a HD 4670 graphics card, this time equipped with the system of passive chilling into the offer. SAPPHIRE HD 4670 Ultimate is allocated above all for persons who value the very quiet operation of the computer for themselves.

Newest Sapphire HD 4670 Ultimate has the graphic core consisting of 320 stream-oriented processors working with the speed of 750 MHz. 512 MB of the GDDR 3 memory installed on the card clock is with speed 873 an MHz (1746 MHz effectively).

For chilling a graphics card a two-slot system of tubes is matching heatpipe of dispersions connected with radiators about the great area of the warmth. On the card he isn't installed no windmill, so chilling is held in total silence. Thanks to that a SAPPHIRE graphics card perfectly is also suitable for computers of the HTPC type. SAPPHIRE HD 4670 Ultimate is serving the PCI Express 2.0 interface and he has the connector enabling to connect two or more graphics cards in the CrossFireX mode. DVI exits, VGA and the native HDMI exit are on herring of the card.

Netbooks won't rescue market of computers PC

This year the netbook will decide on the purchase much more of persons than in the previous year - arises out of reports of research IDC companies and Gartner. Unfortunately it won't be enough to prevent stopping the PC taken down for six years of the sale growth of computers.

According to the IDC name, in 2008 10 million came the market across netbooks and of miniature notebooks, however in the current year this result much will be improved - to sell because has as many as 20 million pieces of such devices. For her analysts assume simultaneously that notebooks and stationary computers will be sentenced to much fainter depressions so far interesting on the part of customers. Therefore, PC observed for six years on the market of computers sale growth, is supposed to stay (in spite of the good sale netbooks) slowed down.

Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 around memory GDDR 4

A new graphics card of the Sapphire company using the ATI Radeon HD 4670 processor came the market across.

Device, unlike the referential structure, was equipped with 512 MB of the GDDR 4 memory and the system of chilling using the fan being marked by considerable assessments. Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 GDDR 4 is intended for the cooperation with motherboards equipped with the trunk line 2.0 x 16 PCI-Express. The device is supporting the CrossFireX technology as well as 1100 MHz was equipped with 512 MB of the GDDR 4 memory working with the speed (2200 MHz effectively). For appropriate chilling sub-assemblies however a tremendous system of chilling using the fan about the great diameter is caring (it let lower his rotation speed), during the work which noise not exceeding level 20 is generating dBA.