350 million licenses of Windows 7

Microsoft claims to have sold 350 million licenses since the release Windows 7 operating system 18 months ago. The publisher has the wind at your back. Windows 7 is the first operating system to exceed the market share of Windows XP in the U.S. (see "Windows XP 7 exceeds finally!") And this trend should be confirmed in the rest of the world.

It should therefore continue to attract consumers for many years and well beyond 2012, expected date of release of Windows 8 (see "The roadmap unveiled Windows 8).

• Windows 7 has now sold over 350 million licences (22/04/2011)
• Microsoft's own numbers suggest declining Windows market share (25/04/2011)
• Windows 7 on Intel D945GTP - does it work? (26/04/2011)
• Windows 7: 350 million licenses sold in 18 months (25/04/2011)
• Windows 7 takes PC upgrade cycle (26/04/2011)

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The information is compromised PlayStation Network

Sony said that the intrusion took place in its servers and PlayStation Network Qriocity resulted in the disclosure of personal information of users, via their personal addresses, passwords and potentially the credit card numbers . The Japanese has a crisis on our hands and we read on the web a number of criticisms on a communication extremely late.

Indeed, the fault occurred between April 17 and April 19. It was discovered on April 20 last, because as explained by Sony, the company has disconnected servers after discovering the problem. However, we are now April 27 and it is only now that Sony says its customers that hackers got their names, addresses (city, state, zip code), country, email address, birth date, Login and password PSN / Qriocity well as purchase history, their payment address and possibly the credit card number and expiration date.

The alarm: the unsuspected killer of hard drives

The noise can cause problems for a hard drive? Apparently, yes. In fact, in recent years, had a host of problems hard disks when testing anti fire when the gas was released Inergen. And surprisingly enough, after some testing, this is not the gas that was causing problems, but ... the alarm. Indeed, the alarms used in data centers are very powerful (up to 120 decibels) and the change in air pressure by the sound wave has a visible impact on hard drives.

World of Warcraft switches to IPv6

About a month ago, we announced a patch for the popular game World of Warcraft providing support for IPv6 - IPv4 and more - was being prepared. This is now done. The publisher Blizzard Entertainment has thus revealing that the patch 4.1 adds two new network options, especially with the possibility to optimize the network for speed (the packets are sent more frequently, which results in an increase in bandwidth used), and especially the activation of the support for IPv6.

New Dual-Core processor, old housing: New Photo: Does the iPhone 5 like that?

If you believe the shots that are about the IT-related blog ", then looks like the iPhone, the iPhone 5 4th The New hidden "under the hood." IPhone rumored to be working in 5 of the "A5" processor from Apple, which is installed in the iPad 2, where it provides for increased speed. Plus, the iPhone will give it 5 from launch also in white - in this case Apple slips up in the previous text generation.

Wii 2 Nintendo Wii Successor in 2012

Nintendo's Wii console is the way out. The show constantly, and the few new announcements from other manufacturers. Games publisher Electronic Arts has recently completed the development of the Wii action game "" stopped because the commercial prospects will not be well profitable. It is therefore hardly surprising that a price reduction is due to the games box.

As the technology blog "" announced, Nintendo lowered the price of the console on 15 May 2011 from 190 to 150 U.S. dollars. To increase the attractiveness of the offer, shall be the console seems to have the fun racer "Mario Kart" with. According to the U.S. trade magazine "The price cut is only the forerunner to the big bang, which is in June on the echo through the halls.

Playstation Network: PSN failure: What is wrong with Sony's online service?

Since 20 April 2011 Sony's Playstation Network (PSN) is not available. Information about the failure of the company served only bit by bit: In the first of the 22nd April said the Japanese company from a dip into the system. The PSN is off accordingly for security reasons. A day later, Sony's communications manager Patrick Seybold that it is a time consuming process to make the secure online service.