XP extended to 2010
Despite valiant efforts to push its Windows licensees to adopt Vista and the forthcoming Windows 7, Microsoft has extended the option of selling Windows XP for use on new PCs to 30 April 2010, reports AppleInsider.
The announcement hasn't been made publicly, but according to a source within Hewlett Packard, Microsoft has granted the PC giant an extension to its existing rights to continue selling the nearly eight year-old Windows XP on the company's business desktops, workstations, and notebooks for another year.
Microsoft isn't excited about the XP extension, as stated in an internal communiqu'e: "It's important to remind customers that Microsoft is still planning to retire XP Pro Mainstream support on 14 April and will only provide OS security updates beyond that date unless the customer has an Extended Hotfix Support contract”.
Dell spots spending slowdown
Computer maker Dell says it may see a slight slowdown in IT spending by the large enterprises in India due to the current economic scenario, according to TMCNet.
However, the company is bullish to grow in the small and medium-size enterprise segment in the country.
"There will be slight slowdown in IT budget in the enterprises segment in India, but they still have to spend on IT. The small and medium-size business will continue to grow in the country," says Dell India country GM, Sameer Garde.
DDR3 memory bus interposers revealed
FuturePlus Systems has introduced the FS2358 DDR3 1333/1600 DIMM and FS2359 DDR3 800/1066/1333 SO-DIMM interposers for next-generation double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAM buses, reports Embedded Computer Design.
The two products will be used by designers involved with DIMM and SO-DIMM validation, failure analysis and bus functional-parametric validation in PC gaming, servers, supercomputing, high-definition television, laptops, desktops and mobile computing applications.
The new interposers are designed for use with Tektronix TLA7000-series logic analysers to provide state analysis and protocol decode at up to 1 600 megatransfers per second, as well as timing analysis at up to 50 GHz.
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