Windows 7 Becomes The Fastest Selling OS In Microsoft’s History

While speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference, Peter Klein, Microsoft's chief financial officer, revealed some interesting numbers about Windows 7, Xbox LIVE, and a few other Microsoft products. More specifically, Microsoft has sold 90 million copies of Windows 7 to date, making it the fastest-selling operating system in history.
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Killer Campaigns Volume Four: The Color of Branding

Web video is a communication technique that provides a viewer-experience that delivers several big advantages over broadcast: first, the length of your presentation is for the most part a non issue other than the degree to which your content and delivery holds your audience’s attention; second, the cost to produce and present professional online video [...]

The Best of Big Download: March 1-7

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It’s been an incredibly busy and surprising week for PC games — and GDC hasn’t even started yet! Let’s check out what’s been happening in the last seven days, shall we:
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Star Trek Online review: We give our final verdict to Cryptic’s latest MMO effort.
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We Confirm: Ubisoft’s DRM Scheme Cracked In Hours

Ubisoft's eagerly awaited Silent Hunter 5 was released last week as the first title carrying the company's new DRM system. That system, as we've previously discussed, requires that gamers maintain a constant Internet connection or be kicked from the game. One of the major flaws in that system was the fact that the game wasn't [...]

NVIDIA Yanks Latest Forceware Drivers Amid Complaints Of GPU Failure

It's not often that we hear credible reports that a driver may have caused actual, physical harm to a video card, but that's precisely what an unhappy group of users has done. According to reports, the latest series of Forceware (196.75) caused certain cards to overheat or fail altogether due to a fan control problem. [...]