Month: December 2004

Microsoft are admitting that their original delivery plans for WinFS, the new Windows file system replacement, were too eager, and the new system may not be released until late 2006, but then only in a test version.

Longhornm, the next major Windows release, and Longhorn server, will not be shipping with WinFS.

WinFS is drawing a lot of press as it is intended to be a complete file system relacement built on top of a database, probably a new version of SQL Server, completely replacing the MS-DOS based file system that has been used with Windows for several years.

Sony’s PSP went on sale to the Japanese public on Sunday for a discounted launch price of $189, as Sony competes with Nintendo’s release of their new handheld, the Nintendo DS.

Oracle’s hostile takeover bid for Peoplesoft has come to an end as Peoplesoft’s board accepted $26.50/share, or roughly $10billion in total cost to Oracle.

Sony and Nvidia have announced that they have been working together for the past 2 years on developing the graphics processor for the upcoming Playstation3, due to be released next year.

This may also be the reason the Microsoft announced some time ago (last year?) that they were dropping Nvidia in favour for ATI to supply the graphics processor for the new XBox2.

The role of the graphics processor in the PS3 is unclear at this point, as it is already known that the Sony/IBM/Toshiba designed and produced Cell processor which is going to be at the heart of the PS3 is going to incorporate advanced processor capabilities for processing vector graphics and graphics processing.