Few weeks’ back Microsoft claimed that Linux infringes some of its patents and now a solid reply has came from Jerry Rosenthal (CEO OIN) that Microsoft claims are empty and Microsoft must stop slandering Linux. Rosenthal said. “If your patent is a good patent then you are not worried about revealing it before going to court because you would be confident of success.” It was clear that if Microsoft has any patent which are infringed by Linux then they must come up with it and show. I think Microsoft should pay more attention on improving Vista rather than wasting time in these legal fights.

iPhone remains in news as both hackers and Apple comes up with something new associated with it now and then. Few weeks back hackers were able to do the SIM unlock to make iPhone work on any network. Apple then released a firmware upgrade which made all hacked iPhones totally useless. Now hackers are finding a workaround to this in the form of rollback of firmware and they are successful to some extent. They successfully fixed a broken iPhone into usable state but it was still not working with any network. After some more tweaks, it may be possible to fully recover the phone to a normal state.

It was seen that almost 33 percent of Xbox 360 were failing and it was due to high CPU temperature. To solve this problem, Microsoft introduced a new 65nm processor codenamed ‘Falcon’ and a revised CPU cooler for it. Unlike older 90nm processor; this new 65nm processor will consume less power, can run at higher clock and will be cheaper to manufacture too.

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After some days of releasing its new operating system Windows Vista, Microsoft stopped the supply of Windows XP for the new systems but now on demand, this OS production is extended for 5 months. I have myself seen people using Vista were always experiencing compatibility issues like their old software was not working or some device failed to recognize their computer after they upgraded to Vista. Upgrading to newer version of software which support vista is easy but buying new hardware just because of OS not recognizing is sure a pain. I think Microsoft forgot to release windows xp sp3 or there will be no sp3 for xp which was indeed much needed.

The special edition packing for the new game from Microsoft, Halo 3 resulted in scratching of the disc. People who bought the game complained of this scratch problem and Microsoft did listen to them and provided a free disc replacement. The scratch was however a minor one in almost all cases and there was no problem in the game play due to that.

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During Tokyo Game Show 2007, disassembled Xbox 360 was displayed as you can see in the photos.

Xbox 360 power adapter & exhaust fan.

Xbox 360 mainboard, using IBM Central processing unit. Look at those mammoth copper heat sink for CPU!