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7th April 2012 Archive

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  • Eight... Rugged Cameras

    Product Round-up Great outdoors photography

    Has anybody not trashed a digital camera at some point while out and about? Dust or sand, water or ice-cream, the great outdoors ruthlessly claims its tech victims on a daily basis. While manufacturers have busily carved out a niche of rugged ‘adventure-proof’ cameras, the truth is that most people, whether on the slopes, at the …

    reghardware 7 Apr 07:00

  • Windows XP support ends two years from now

    Shutters to come down on April 8, 2014

    Support for Windows XP will end two years from today, on April 8th, 2014*. XP was shipped to OEMs on August 24th, 2001 and reached average punters on October 25th. Plenty bought it and plenty still run it: Gartner's July 2011 assessment of the global OS population suggested "Windows XP Home and Follow-Ons" had 68 million …

    Windows 8 7 Apr 14:01