If you want to check out the upcoming desktop wallpapers that are going to ship with Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard, this site has links to those for Windows 7, and here for Snow Leopard.
Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling MS Word
There has been a lot of fuss about MS Word 2003 and 2007 and their support for a MS file format that uses XML, since a Canadian company, i4i, is claiming this is infringing on patents that they hold. In May a court case ordered Microsoft to pay $200million to i4i for the patent infringement.
In this latest twist in a ruling on Tuesday, a new court order “requires Microsoft to comply with the injunction within 60 days and forbids Microsoft from testing, demonstrating, or marketing Word products containing the contested XML feature”. Wow. Have to see how this one works out.
VMWare to buy SpringSource
This has to be one of the strangest recent company combinations in a buyout, but VMWare have announced they are buying out SpringSource.
Will the Chevy Volt honestly get 230MPG in city driving?!
Does this sound too good to be true? Chevy are claiming their upcoming 2010 Chevy Volt, a plugin electric hybrid, will do 230MPG for in city driving. Wow. Now we’re talking some serious milage. That much more attractive to me that squeezing 40-50MPG from a Prius – which can easily be met and even bettered by most new diesel engines. Shame the clean-burn European diesels aren’t more widely available in the US.