Tag: Microsoft
Lenovo to sell Linux-based laptops
Several months after Dell announced Linux-based PCs, Lenovo have made a similar announcement.
Today it said that it would begin selling laptop computers with Linux software from Novell instead of Microsoft Windows, with availability to both business and personal customers.
Imagine if Microsoft's Steve Ballmer starred in an iPod advert…
Well, you don't have to imagine any more! Someone's turned the infamous Dancing Ballmer video into a silhouette, slapped a coloured background on, and hey presto – a fake Zune ad that takes Apple's iconic iPod ads as its inspiration. Marvellous. Watch it below.
The curious riddle of PS3 v Wii sales in Japan
More proof that statistics can be used to prove pretty much any view you like. There’ve been several reports on how Wii and PS3 are doing in Japan this week, yet with two considerably different spins on their respective fortunes.
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 01-Aug-07: Ashton Kutcher, Windows Vista, Bittorrent, blog revenue, eBay
– Ashton Kutcher shills for an online Alternate Reality Game and VOIP start-up? (Boing Boing)
– Microsoft has sold 60 million copies of Vista, by 2008 there’ll be 1 billion PCs running Windows (Daily Tech)…
Viva Piñata to start growing Piñatas in Nintendo DS's gardens
Viva Piñata is definitely one of those sandbox/life-sim games that our fellow Tech Digest editor Stuart refers to as AIQBNWWIEs, or ‘actually-i’m-quite-bored-now-when-will-it-end’ games. Not really suited to the Xbox 360’s stationary existence, the fact that it’s taken Microsoft and Rare this long to approach Nintendo about placing it on the DS platform is quite surprising…
Xbox 360 overtakes Wii as most searched-for games console
And no, cynics, it’s not because millions of gamers are searching for ‘my Xbox 360 stopped working what do I do?’. Tsk.
Would you tattoo yourself with the Blue Screen of Death?
Now, I like to call myself a bit of a Microsoft fan. But why oh why would you want to tattoo your whole right arm with Windows’ Blue Screen of Death? No Apple fanboy would willingly do this to themselves, so it’s got to be a Microsoft user. I’m a little worried about this man’s sanity, admittedly. Why couldn’t he stick with an anchor and his mum’s name enscripted on his bicep?…
Zune finally passes the million sales mark
Microsoft’s promise to shift a million Zune personal media players by the end of June wasn’t an idle one: the company’s latest set of financials included an announcement that the device had actually sold 1.2 million units.
Shiny Video Review: The Nintendo Wii, Sony PS3, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS and Sony PSP pitted against one another
I somehow managed to twist Gary Cutlack’s arm and forced him into his video debut for Tech Digest. If you’re a fan of his gaming-related rantings over at UK Resistance and gadgets…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 18-Jul-07: Grand Theft Auto IV, Firefox, Peter Moore, Harry Potter, Blogs
– Rockstar Games ask civilians to create radio segments for Grand Theft Auto IV (Wonderland)
– Recent statistics show 28% of Europeans use Mozilla Firefox (Daily Tech)…
