MS: Halo 2 for PC a Windows Vista 'exclusive' | Reg Hardware

MS: Halo 2 for PC a Windows Vista ‘exclusive’ | Reg Hardware

Microsoft looked to Bungie’s Halo to sell its Xbox console, and it’s now planning to see if the same trick will persuade gamers to upgrade to Windows Vista. Yes, Halo 2, which shipped for Xbox over a year ago, is coming to the PC but you’ll need Microsoft’s next major operating system release to run it. The game will not run on Windows XP, Bungie admitted this week. It will run “exclusively” on Vista.

Bungie maintains the scheme is “absolutely not” motivated by a desire to drive consumers to Vista, despite going to great lengths in its announcement to stress just how good the new OS will be for them. No, it’s all about getting the best quality experience.

Well I do plan on getting Vindows Wista (If you don’t get it you need to watch the CES shows done by dl.tv & ZiffDavis) anyway but what about those poor bastards that cant run it.

IOL: SpaceShipOne opens new space-tourism frontier

IOL: SpaceShipOne opens new space-tourism frontier

Mojave – The world’s first private rocket ship blasted into space on Monday for the second time in five days, snatching a $10-million (about R60-million) prize and ushering in a new era of space tourism.

In a flawless mission, SpaceShipOne, piloted by former United States navy test pilot Brian Binnie, also smashed the sub-orbital flight altitude record, reaching 112km, judges announced.

VMware Introduces Free VMware Server

VMware Introduces Free VMware Server

New Entry-level Virtualization Product to Accelerate Mainstream Adoption of Virtualization While Providing Path to Enterprise-class Virtual Infrastructure

PALO ALTO, Calif., February 6, 2006 VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, today introduced VMware Server, a free new entry-level hosted virtualization product for Linux and Windows servers. The product is available as a beta download at http://www.vmware.com/products/server/.

“Virtualization and VMware have become mainstream in the past year, and many customers have deployed thousands of VMware server environments across their enterprises. With VMware Server, we are ensuring that every company interested in, considering or evaluating server virtualization for the first time has access to the industry-leading virtualization technology,” said Diane Greene, VMware President. “VMware Server makes it easy and compelling for companies new to virtualization to take the first step toward enterprise-wide virtual infrastructure.”

VMware Server, the successor to VMware GSX Server, enables users to quickly provision new server capacity by partitioning a physical server into multiple virtual machines, bringing the powerful benefits of virtualization to every server.

This is so cool. Now to get some of them free images to have some fun… 🙂

NVidia Releases 7800 AGP GPU – Press Release

Press Release

SANTA CLARA, CA—FEBRUARY 2, 2006—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, today announced the new NVIDIA® GeForce 7800 GS graphics processing unit (GPU) for AGP-based systems.

Well at least it looks like AGP is still alive, thank god. Although I want a Mac I will see if I can afford it still