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Is Vista dead?

Kirsten Doyle
By Kirsten Doyle, ITWeb contributor.
Johannesburg, 30 Oct 2008

Is Vista dead?

Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) has shown at least one thing: the company has given up on Vista and is now looking at Windows 7 as its saviour, reports Computing.co.uk.

The extent to which Redmond is now trying to focus attention on its next operating system rather than the current one shows Microsoft has now accepted what its customers have been so ably demonstrating: Vista is not wanted and is best left to the history books.

Windows 7 seems to have been the whole focus of PDC, while Vista was treated like the indolent teenager of its product line.

Server saboteur gets six months

A US systems administrator has been sentenced to six months in prison for sabotaging his ex-employer's servers, says The Register.

Priyavrat H Patel (42) of Berlin, Connecticut, used to maintain four servers for screwdriver maker Pratt-Read, until the company decided to move the machines.

On 25 November 2007, Patel remotely accessed the four machines and deleted files, making the machines inoperable. Presumably someone forgot to change the passwords.

Games firms 'catching' non-gamers

Games firms are accusing innocent people of file sharing as they crack down on pirates, a Which Computing investigation has claimed, reports The BBC.

The magazine was contacted by Gill and Ken Murdoch, from Scotland, who had been accused of sharing the game Race07 by manufacturer Atari.

The couple told Which they had never played a computer game in their lives. The case was dropped, but Which estimates that hundreds of others are in a similar situation.

Beatles look to digital age

Nearly 40 years after the Beatles broke up, the band looks to be taking its first step into the digital future, says CNet.

MTV Networks is expected to sign a licensing arrangement with the Beatles that may bring the band's songs to the company's popular Rock Band video game.

Speculation about a licensing deal emerged this week when MTV scheduled a press teleconference with Apple, the overseer of the Beatles' music catalogue. MTV said the company had reached an "exclusive agreement" with Apple to develop an "unprecedented global music project", but declined to comment on any specifics.

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