For a change let me give you guys a bit of tech info. I know most of you have experienced windows vista, the latest windows operating system. There was a great buzz about it prior to its release but since after it’s release it has received a lot negative reviews from a lot of people, me included. But for the fact that Microsoft already has a pact with many of computer manufacturers, they ship their computer with all the flaws of vista. I love my XP SP2 and I’m not in a hurry to adopt vista. I’ll wait till all the errors of vista has been corrected before I migrate.
At a point Microsoft decided to hoodwink their users. They created a website that has nothing Microsoft on it and asked people to go to the site and evaluate a new product. People went to site after many had evaluated the product confessed they loved it. Unknowing to them the product they were evaluating was vista.
Microsoft is aware of the many flaws of vista and has been working very hard to remedy them. The latest in their effort is the release of vista SP2 the beta version. Read about it below.
The next update to Windows Vista will enter beta testing next week, bringing with it support for Blu-ray drives, among other enhancements.
As is normal with me I’ll go ahead and give you a brief description of blu-ray disc.
Blu-ray Disc (also known as Blu-ray or BD) is an optical disc storage medium. Its main uses are high-definition video and data storage. The disc has the same physical dimensions as standard DVDs and CDs.
The name Blu-ray Disc is derived from the blue laser (violet-colored) used to read and write this type of disc. Because of the beam's shorter wavelength (405 nanometres), substantially more data can be stored on a Blu-ray Disc than on the DVD format, which uses a red (650 nm) laser. A two-layer Blu-ray Disc can store 50 gigabytes, almost six times the capacity of a two-layer DVD, or ten times that of a single-layer DVD.
During the format war over high-definition optical discs, Blu-ray Disc competed with the HD DVD format. On February 19, 2008, Toshiba—the main company supporting HD DVD—announced that it would no longer develop, manufacture, and market HD DVD players and recorders,[2] leading almost all other HD DVD companies to follow suit, effectively ending the format war.
Blu-ray Disc was developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, a group representing makers of consumer electronics, computer hardware, and motion pictures. As of October 21, 2008, more than 970 Blu-ray Disc titles have been released in the United States and more than 540 Blu-ray Disc titles have been released in Japan. There are expected to be over 1300 Blu-ray Disc titles released in the United States by the end of 2008.
I hope that wasn’t too much information. Anyway back to beta version of vista SP2.
In a blog posting on Friday, Microsoft confirmed that a beta version of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 will be released next week.
"Because we've adopted a single serviceability model, these improvements are integrated into a single service pack covering both Windows Vista (client) and Windows Server 2008 (server) versions," Windows executive Mike Nash said in a blog. "This should also minimize deployment and testing complexity for our customers."
The software maker said earlier this week that it was working on Vista SP2, but wouldn't go into detail. A support document posted this month, however, suggested a beta version was in the offing.
In addition to Blu-ray, Vista SP2 will add support for Bluetooth 2.1 as well as include Windows Search 4.0, the latest version of Microsoft's desktop search technology.
Microsoft encouraged those thinking about upgrading to Vista not to wait for SP2, however.
"One question I know that you will ask is 'should I wait for SP2?'," Nash said. "The reality is that Windows Vista SP1 is a great platform that is both available on new Windows PCs and available as a free download for systems that are running the 'gold' release of Windows Vista. While we will recommend SP2 when it ships, your best bet today is Windows Vista SP1."
Update: Asked about when Microsoft might ship SP2, a representative responded that "it is too early to talk about SP2's final release date."
"As always, the final release date is based on quality and we will track customer and partner feedback from the beta program before setting a final date for distribution," the representative said.
The announcement comes ahead of next week's Professional Developer Conference, where Microsoft is expected to detail Windows 7, as well as give developers a pre-beta version.
BRAD AND ANGELINA MAY WED BECAUSE OF KIDS
With the hollywierd you always get weird stories. I saw a lot lately but has to do with two of my favorite actor, actress and couple Angelina and Brad, if put together equals Brangelina Pitt.
Actress Angelina Jolie has conceded she will marry partner Brad Pitt one day - to keep their children happy. The movie star has a brood of six with Pitt - adopted kids Maddox, seven, Pax, four, and Zahara, three, and biological children Shiloh, two, and newborn twins [not pictured] Knox and Vivienne. Jolie and Pitt, who was previously married to Jennifer Aniston, have always maintained they will not wed until same-sex marriages are legalized across the U.S.
So Brad and Angelina will make a stand for the right to gay marriage, but they have no problem respectively openly dating another woman while married and dating a married man?
PIX FROM HOLLYWIERD
Weird dressing from some of hollywierds
She is one of my favorite actress Katie Homes the prisoner of , sorry wife of Tom Cruise.
Ever since Katie Holmes agreed to join the "church" of Cruise, her sense of style has gone up in smoke.
Paris Hilton
She is a celebraty but what does she really do? She is always in the news but i still dont know what she does apart from the fact that she is from the famouse Hilton family. Anyway her cloth is banging but lips aint working for me.
