Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, plans to delay the consumer launch of its much-anticipated Windows Vista operating system to January 2007.
It had originally targeted Vista’s launch for the second half of 2006.
However, a version for corporate customers will be available in November this year.
Windows Vista will then be rolled out for consumers after the […]
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Microsoft delays Vista launch until January 2007
China sentences Skype to two years for “reckless telco endangerment”
Engadget: China’s got some businesses to protect — landline phone businesses, that is — and it sounds like no Skype VoIP licenses (enabling, for example, SkypeOut calling) are to be issued for another two years over there per government intervention. That’s bad, but what’s worse is apparently China Telecom’s declared the software “illegal” (we assume […]
IBM’s Magic Block - A voice recorder with speech recognition
Engadget: If IBM is ever able to manufacture its Magic Block voice recorder, it’ll make just about every other recorder obsolete overnight. The Magic Block is a concept for a digital voice recorder that includes a few handy features — such as biometric security and an intriguing design that limits accidental recordings — and one […]
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