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Pop the Champagne, its time to celebrate! The Windows operating system has turned 22. That’s right, considering the fact that Windows 1.0 was made available on November 20, 1985, the platform is 22 years old this week. The event passed almost unnoticed, and certainly the Redmond company failed to linger on the past. With every effort poured into pushing Windows Vista into the foreground, Microsoft simply left the 22nd anniversary ofnWindows slip by unnoticed. The fact of the matter is that there is no Champagne to pop.

“Windows provides unprecedented power to users today and a foundation for hardware and software advancements of the next few years. It is unique software designed for the serious PC user, who places high value on the productivity that a personal computer can bring”, these are the words of Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft, marking the release of Windows 1.0.

By 1985, Microsoft has already moved out of Albuquerque, New Mexico and into Bellevue, Washington, and was now extending the DOS operating system with the “Windows operating environment”. Windows 1.0 came to the table with a price tag of $99 and signaled the birth of the user interface delivering such programs as Windows Write and Windows Paint.

22 years later, Windows Vista is a barely manageable mammoth release, and Microsoft assured of its commitment to produce Windows 7, currently planned for 2010. Vista shipped to businesses in November 2006 and to the general consumers in January 2007. One year after the latest Windows client was released to manufacturing, and 22 years after Windows 1.0, Microsoft sold over 88 million copies of Vista, and is looking to achieve the 1 billion install base with Windows by mid 2008. Now, that will be a real reason to celebrate, although it will be somewhat synonymous with Bill Gates stepping down from his day-to-day role at Microsoft.

Source: Softpedia

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It seems like AMD is considering buying Ageia, which, together with Havok, is the biggest player in the physics for gaming field. It has just released a new PPU (Physics processing unit), but since Havok has been acquired by Intel, AMD seems interested in Ageia. The only problem is that 100 millions dollars are far higher than the true actual value of the company, but the intellectual properties that Ageia owns could skyrocket the price, since it is now the only physics company left on the market, and someone else could be interested. Physics is not much developed at the time, at least in  the hardware part, but the software, developed both by Havok and Ageia, is widely used, and FREE!

Let’s see what happens in the next few days!

Stay tuned!

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The iPhone is being sold in Germany by T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom (some tips and tricks for iPhone German users are already online). Vodafone a few days ago managed to win a judgment, so now T-Mobile decide to sell an unlocked version of the new Apple jewel, at 1,000 €! Not that cheap, but it’s a great achievement for Vodafone. T-Mobile announced that this will continue until judges decide on the case (so they say that it won’t last forever). We will see when iPhone will be launched in France and Italy (rumors said that there was an agreement between Telecom Italia and Apple, while now Vodafone seems the first on the line).