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Microsoft has wrapped up development of two major products, Windows Server 2008 and the Service Pack 1 update to Windows Vista, CEO Steve Ballmer told financial analysts Monday. “Both products have released to manufacturing today, which is good news,” Ballmer said.

“We think we are turning the corner in terms of enterprise deployment, and Service Pack 1 will be a huge boon,” Ballmer said. Microsoft will begin distributing Vista SP1 via Windows Update in mid-March, according to a Microsoft blog post on Monday. Microsoft is due to formally launch Windows Server 2008 on February 27 at an event in Los Angeles.

AMD expects to launch its triple-core Phenom 8400 and 8600 at CeBIT 2008 along with its low-power quad-core Phenom 9100e, however the quad-core Phenom 9700 and 9900 CPUs, which were originally scheduled to launch at the same time, will be delayed for both launch and showcase to a later time, according to sources at motherboard makers. The Phenom 9700 and 9900 will be launched in the second quarter of 2008.

The delay of Phenom 9700 and 9900 is due to the TLB bug and AMD is still working to raise core frequencies. The company will launch Phenom 9550 and 9650 in the second quarter this year. Other than Phenom 9900, whose launch date is not yet set, all other CPUs are currently scheduled to launch at Computex 2008 in early June. AMD will also delay the launch of its second wave triple-core Phenom 8700, 8650 and 8450 CPUs by a month, from their original schedule in early second quarter. Phenom 8700, 9700 and 9900 will be renamed to Phenom 8750, 9750 and 9950 by the time they are officially launched, noted the sources.

Microsoft launches – not hardware or software, but a comic strip.The daily Web comic, called Heroes Happen Here, features tech savvy crime fighters like Lord Firewall, who “stands between chaos and order” and says things like “begone vermin!”Heroes Happen Here is sponsored by Microsoft and Seagate. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because Microsoft has also dubbed its February launch event for the 2008 versions of SQL Server, Windows Server and Visual Studio as ‘Heroes Happen Here.’The HHH comic strips are

A lot of users have called RealPlayer “badware,” but mostly for performance reasons.  All right, all right, we’re being kind; there have been plenty of complaints over Real Networks’ policies before.StopBadware.org said Tuesday it has labeled two versions of the RealPlayer media player as “badware,” or spyware.RealPlayer 10.5, it claims, “fails to accurately and completely disclose the fact that it installs advertising software on the user’s computer.” And RealPlayer 11, it claims, “does not disclose the

Yahoo is making changes to its infrastructure along with contemplating an unsolicited bid from Microsoft. One of these changes will be to eliminate their music subscription service and refer customers to RealNetworks Rhapsody Music Service!

Yahoo plans to turn off its subscription music service and refer customers to RealNetworks' Rhapsody, the companies are expected to announce today.

Music remains an important area for Yahoo and its users; its music site gets about 22 million unique visitors each month, noted Ian Rogers, vice president of video and media applications at Yahoo. But in the fall, the company decided to de-emphasize its service, dubbed Yahoo Music Unlimited, he said.

Mark Zuckerberg is 23 years old. He founded the social networking site Facebook while he was still in college. He’s made the mistake most bright people make when one of their notions becomes wildly popular overnight: He’s thinks it has nothing to do with luck, or being in the right place at the right time.  Unchastened by his foolhardy foray into Big Brother spying on his customers with the Beacon widget, he continues to behave like what he is:  an inexperienced businessman in charge of a suddenly

As we’ve mentioned here before, Yahoo has become a huge audience without a show. Now Microsoft, who have tried for years to leverage their success selling proprietary software into some sort of presence on the Internet, has decided to get that presence the old fashioned way: They’re going to buy it.Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has made a proposal to the Yahoo! Inc. Board of Directors to acquire all the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for per share consideration of $31 representing a total

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Ever get the hankering to run not one but four panels from a single graphics card?  Let’s see… How about a quartet of 24″ widescreens spanning your desktop or game environment?  The good folks at Asus sent this beefy plank-o-silicon over for test and evaluation and needless to say, it seemingly has the gifts.  Asus’ EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP – Radeon HD 3870 X2             Features: 1GB of .8ns Hynix GDDR3 DRAM (1200MHz/2.4GHz