28th March 2010 Archive

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• Microsoft's age of innocence ends with Select death

  Promise big, buy low

  Microsoft has ended its first ever - and possibly most generous - program for people buying copies of Windows in bulk. The Select License introduced with Windows NT in 1993 will no longer be offered to customers as of July 1, 2011. Customers are being moved to Select Plus, introduced 18 months ago. No reason was given for …

  Channel Register 28 Mar 06:02

• MSI tells 97,000 customers to 'Read The F***ing Manual'

  Support reps live the dream

  Late last week, global hardware manufacturer MSI informed the 97,000+ people registered with its support forums that its reps were "fed up" with repeating information easily found in user manuals. The company even went so far as to say that it had installed an "RTFM" chip on its hardware boards to determine whether users had …

  Odds and Sods 28 Mar 06:57

• Behavioural targeting works, claims US study

  We ring the bell, you dribble - but at a cost

  Behavioural advertising is more than twice as good at getting ad-viewers to make a purchase compared to non-targeted internet advertising, but costs more than twice as much, a survey has found. US advertising network trade body the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) commissioned the study, which was based on data provided by …

  Applications 28 Mar 09:02

• Intel Xeon 5600 invade big name servers

  Apples, applesauce, and socket upgrades

  Server makers are embracing Intel's "Westmere-EPs" Xeons. Intel's cadence for chips have a tick-tock rhythm, where the cores and processors are updated on the "tick" and the process shrink leading to more cores, larger cache, and sometimes faster clocks comes on the "tock." Servers based on Intel's Xeon chips follow the same …

  Servers 28 Mar 21:37