The sales of Windows 7 is down

Microsoft has released its financial results for its third fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2011 and speaks of an increase in its turnover by 13% compared to last year. With a profit of 5.23 billion (approx. EUR 3.53 billion) or + 31% and an income of 16.43 billion (approx. EUR 11 billion), the firm is doing well and these results exceeded analysts' expectations.

These figures were mainly driven up by strong sales of Office 2010 and Microsoft Business Division grew 21%. It also highlights the great result of Entertainment Division of the firm which deals, inter alia, consoles, and has earned 60% more than in 2010 thanks to the Xbox 360 and KINECTS.

Tom's Guide: 7 myths about the future of AFN

Our colleagues and neighbors at Tom's Hardware just published a feature on the future of photography, via 7 ideas. The future of the hybrid mode of the arrival of Android in the NPC through the rise of smartphones, learn a few tracks that could take digital photography.

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Lenovo: a 14 "Sandy Bridge for pros

The manufacturer Lenovo has announced the launch of the Essential B470, laptop 14 inches (1366 x 768 pixels) based on a platform Huron River (Sandy Bridge Mobile) and for the market of small and medium enterprises. Boasting a weight of 2.2 kg on a balance, therefore B470 embeds a Core i3-2310M 2.1 GHz (or i5-2410M 2.3 GHz), up to 8 GB of RAM, a maximum of 1TB of storage space and a GeForce accompanied 410M 1 GB (optional).

New support Dura Mount H7 and iPad iPad 2 of LUXA2

LUXA2 a good reflection of the continued expansion of the market for smartphones and tablets and therefore is pleased to announce the launch of their new accessory H7 Dura Mount, universal support for the car and iPad iPad 2. Maintaining the same quality as all other aluminum brackets LUXA2 iPad, the H7 incorporates a suction cup and an ultra strong security mechanism to release it easily, so as to ensure secure mounting on the windshield of the car, a table, or any other flat surface to enjoy the capabilities of IPAD without having to hold hands.

Patriot Launches SSD Torqx 2

The Patriot manufacturer has announced the launch of Torqx 2, two years after the release of the first version of Torqx. Still at 2.5-inches, this SSD is available in capacities of 32 GB, 64 GB, 128 GB and 256 GB as its predecessor, Torqx 2 has a 3 Gbps SATA interface. The NAND flash memory chips used are engraved in MLC 3x nm, and 128 MB of cache are present.

The embedded controller is not clearly indicated by Patriot, but we can reasonably assume that it is a model made by JMicron. Supporting the TRIM command, these SSDs show rates of the order of 270 MB / s sequential read and 230 MB / s write. MTBF reaches for his 1.5 million hours. Expected within the next few days, the Torqx 2 should be offered at a price of 419 euros in its 256 GB

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AMD Radeon 5700 turns into 6700

After making a timid appearance on the Chinese site AMD few days ago, the Radeon HD 6750 and 6770 have finally been made official by the manufacturer. As we suspected, it is only known Radeon HD 5700, but with two small novelties: support for HDMI 1.4a and can decode the content Blu-ray 3D engine combined with UVD 2.2.

Technical side, no surprise to expect: found on the Radeon HD 6770 GPU features of 800 Juniper Stram Processors and 40 texture units, all of which are clocked at 850 MHz. The GB of GDDR5 memory operating on him at 1200 MHz on a 128-bit bus. For its part, the Radeon HD 6750 features a GPU clocked at 700 MHz with 720 SP and 36 texture units.

The screen lock is customizable Windows 8

The latest build of Windows 8 leaked on the Internet shows that it is possible to use his office as a screen lock. This detail confirms the desire for Microsoft to make its operating system more customizable with a look of Windows Phone approaching. The functionality is available on the build 6.2.7955.0 operating system (see "Windows 8 M2 is available for download).

If you downloaded a copy, just edit the file "C: \\ Windows \\ Resources \\ Themes Ease of Access \\ basic. theme "in a text editor such as Notepad and change the value of" SetLogonBackground "to make it go from 0 to 1. Then just restart the machine. According to information posted on forums, this feature will be available from a check box in Control Panel.