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A quote from IBM: "For each of the past 11 years (1993 - 2003), IBM has been granted more U.S. patents than any other company. During that period IBM has received 25,772 US patents. In 2003, IBM received 3,415 U.S. patents, breaking the record it set previously for the most US patents received in a single year."

Gotta admit thats kinda impressive...

Microsoft may want to earn more respect now that they have started to share their $60+ billion war chest with their stock holders. Fair enough. But they can't earn my respect my just saying that they did 2,000 patents last year, and may do 3,000 this year -- so what? Lets see some sustained performance or at least publish their sustained historical performance...

The question is can they deliver patents over the long haul... they already got the easy ones... Patent No. 6,748,582 (Microsoft's patents the "to-do list").

I am forgetful but not yet impr,eTOEd...

We all know windows is the most stable OS for embedded devices.

People are getting more voracious for news these days. To satisfy the online news appetitie there are several sites scuh as Google News, Yahoo News, Newstrove, Moreover News Services , Topix.net and now MSN with their News Bot. Microsoft has just launched the beta test of Newsbot, a customized search-driven news . MSN News Bot offers personalization by searching on topics, and the service suggests stories based on what visitors have previously read.

But I find Google News more usefriendly and systematic, why doesn't Microsoft employ some good usability expert who can enlighten them on inetrface designing.

I compared MSN and Google News by searching for India on both MSN Newsbot & Google News and found that on Newsbot results obtained were containing mostly yesterdays Criket Match headlines, whereas the google had identified them to be same and related, And arranged the other related news links below the the first result itself instead of showing different criket headlines.

Right now I cannot see the advantage of a search history on MSN but I do see the advantage of finding the related stories covered by different news sources. Is history really so useful ? , 'cos mostly people will be using one or two words to make the searches and not some complex string and may be they would be using the same search words daily. But on the other side the collections of history links would be a sure advantage for some people who might be drilling for something more specfic or 'hard to find info / not so populated topic' and trying different combinations.

The the advantage of MSN Newsbot over Google News is that Newsbot has more sections and topics in the navigation and makes use of Java Scripts so that you can navigate the respective sections > subsections > and related headlines just over the roll of your mouse.

One thing leaves me confusing , what does Microsoft wants to become, it is confused about its own identity or doing some sourch searching.
- Is there a need for Microsoft to become the next google ?
- Is Microsoft really seeing a great opportunity in News and Search Engines market ?
- Or simply it doesn't have anything else to do ? Microsoft has started a online mag slate and is now thinking of wiping it off. Why it doesn't concentrate on Browser Wars and try to give some peace to the exisitng users of Internet Explorer who are under constant threat. Microsoft seems to be concentrating on Mass or larger share of consumer market, even its patents are also very pathetic. With the kind of cash it has, it should now support real technological inventions or innovations.

And last but not the least I hate both of them for not providing the syndication feature through RSS.

Also posted on my blog http://sanspeak.blogspot.com/2004/07/msn-news-bot- google-news-comparison.html

The Inquirer reported on something just like this nearly a year ago. Of course this is actually confirmed with a date, but the Inq still has a bit more information.

When are we going to see decent upstream at the home? 128kbps doesn't cut it. I rarely see any offering at all over 256kbps upstream. OOL offers 1024 but as soon as you begin actually USING it they cap you back to 150 to keep the network from congesting to death.

But Joe McSixpack doesn't care about that, he just wants to grab porn faster and maybe let his kids get on aol and watch some crappy realvideo trash without whining. The ISPs are so paranoid about people running servers on their networks and losing their ability to charge 5000% markup for the same connection for "business" users even though they still block ports like 80 and 25. Woe betide the industry if people realised that 1.5mbps T-1 they've been paying hundreds or thousands a month for since the early 90s is now SLOW.

It's gotten to the point where I've pretty much given up hope of ever seeing a real broadband connection in my lifetime. By the time I can afford something with decent upstream, the idiots in washington will have ISPs so paranoid that everyone will be mandatorily placed behind a NAT and their servers will continually portscan you looking for servers and p2p apps.

Yes, I do

You can ONLY play Ultra mode on a 512MB card.

That would be fine, if the ads didn't slow the sites down quite so badly...

Fifteen Years of Technology Reporting

In general, And still no expose on price fixing and monopoly abuse, still no coverage of fundamental research in both software and hardware, just the same copy and paste press release stories. No undercover journalism, no coverage of the spamming and malware writing "bad" parts of PC town. Still the same meaningless benchmarks and megahurts ads for articles. No coverage of the scary moves by the once garage operation and now mega coorporations. No credit where credit is due for real inovation, no mention of the real inventors of "the next cool thing", just of the latest guy to market a clone years later.

Overall I really hope that the dead tree coverage is better elseware in this world. Beside the likes of el`reg and vulture HQ only C`t seems to have some grip with what is going on. At slashdot we often joke about the dumbed down (or plain dumb) coverage by "normal" news sources (cnn/nyt), but the dedicated dead tree rags basicly have no journalism/real news whatsoever.

Sure its more complicated then this, but when looking back, do you see improvement over the years?

Actually, it was 6 million. Quote:

"IF YOU CHECK out ATI's full document for its financial quarter, you will find this item on page four of the PDF report.

"A non-recurring charge of about $6.0 million, consisting of incentive compensation and other charges associated with the signing of a development agreement".

This, almost certainly, is the $6 million ATI paid to bundle Half Life, in the multimillion auction revealed in the INQUIRER, and in which Nvidia was a bidder too."

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11934

Um.. This is NOT the card that was benchmarked. It is a 9800XT in the benchmarks. NOT a 9800 pro. In fact the only cards shown in the benchmarks are well over $300 even today. Actually still about $400. which is because all the new cards are pretty much not available here.

Oh yea, XML, that will solve everything.

L00ser

Do some formatting...

http://theinquirer.net/?article=17215
Unigraphics drops Itanium 2 support for NX3

http://theinquirer.net/?article=16935
Microsoft votes for X64 support over Intel Itanium

EOM

L00ser

Do some formatting...

http://theinquirer.net/?article=17215
Unigraphics drops Itanium 2 support for NX3

http://theinquirer.net/?article=16935
Microsoft votes for X64 support over Intel Itanium

EOM

"No one is buying laws."

Then why do businesses have "campaign contributions"? Why is a business sending a letter to the Senate (a law-making body)? Please explain.

"Most people in this country oppose online piracy."

Numbers, please.

"If you are downloading music illegally, you are causing this right to be taken away."

Um... how is that? The RIAA's numbers would seem to disagree with your rhetoric. There may be a small dip in the RIAA's desired profits, but unemployment, war, and other factors are bigger contributors than downloads.

Warning : Swear words (is there an auto-filter for this?)

Look, I'm sorry, and I do not care how badly I get modded down for this, but I am TIRED of hearing "The XBox has done well for its time as a newcomer" blah blah blah. I call bullshit.

The problem is that the X-Box will never make a goddamn dime. Well whoopty do, how much of an accomplishment is placing yourself in 2nd-ish place if you haven't made a dime off it? Shit, I could sell cars for $5000 less than Ford, outsell them, and put myself $3 million in the hole, but does that mean I won?

And then comes the "Microsoft has all the money in the world" people who will not bother to RTFPost all the way and response anyway, but this doesn't fly either. Investors aren't going to be happy if a portion of Microsoft is constantly in the hole. It's a company, like any other, and investors must be listened to eventually.

Mind you, I love my X-Box and wouldn't mind if Nintendo and Microsoft just sat down, made one system (with Nintendo's console and Microsoft's hardware expertises combined like some twisted two-company version of Voltron) and took over. Now people in both countries are willing to buy it and developers get their needs addressed. Of course it won't happen, so I'll drop the tangent here.

The point is, the X-Box has accomplished nothing worth bragging about. Microsoft's been throughing cash away in the MSN bin for years, this doesn't mean they're brilliant. All it's really done is set up a false game economy that'll come crashing down if investors pull the plug on the X-Box 2.

Note that the only way to make the system proffitable in the enxt generation will be to cut costs so they aren't losing money through their asses, leaving them with a system that won't even have the same consumer pull the original did (basiscally everything the PS2 does but a fuck-ton better, hardware-wise. Hell, if every PS2 3rd party- scratch that, if Squaresoft and Namco made X-Box ports of and launched them simultaneously with all their PS2 games, the X-Box would have WON.... in the US, maybe Japan, who knows). Yes, consumers have loyalty, but that loyalty will be strongest towards the PS2. I mean, how many GC/X-Box owners made that their FIRST system? Usually it was because PS2 owners had a moment of boredome and weakness (e.g. exclusive title, e.g. Halo, Resident Evil, and Smash Melee) and picked one up for the hell of it. Next gen, everyone launches simultaneously, and 80% of Japan's developers are putting all their steam into the PS3, it doesn't matter what Microsoft does in the slightest short of buy the rights and port every PS2 game during its development cycle. (Which would rock.)

Fock, that is all.

Nope, the new PS3 launch date of March 2005 is *before* E3, or even by the end of this year!

Why is this important? Sony had, until recently, said that it would release the PS3 in 2006. Microsoft thought it would be able to get its NeXtbox or whatever it is now out by Fall 2005, and laugh at Sony. Unfortunately for them, they're now screwed. Sure, Sony might not have the support of all developers if they launch it by the end of the year, or in March, but PS2 didn't, and its backwards compatibility kept it selling for quite a while. Xbox2? "Sorry, no backwards compatibility! We were working on it but we had to rush it out the door to compete with Sony!"

article from the Inquirer this morning...

"He said the concept of carrying around film and music on little silver discs to stick them into a computer was ridiculous. He moaned that DVDs could get scratched or get lost."

From this article:
Here the crystal ball clouded over due to a blue screen of death. Bill's predictions and his crystal balls can be a little inaccurate. He once said that there was no future in that little networking novelty called the Internet.

Yeah, and he also said we wouldn't need more than 640k but in this case I believe he is at least partially correct. It may not be in 10 years or less but scratchable media needs to go away. We need something that can handle a large amount of data and remain nearly indestructible.

I have probably screwed up 90% of my CD collection over the years. I now just keep most of the music that I really want to save as SHN's on my computer. At least that way I can recreate the CDs as necessary. While I take very good care of my DVD collection (burned or otherwise) I can still see problems occurring due to drops, accidental scratching, etc. I moved most of my music collection to CD in the late 90s and gave away my tape entire tape collection in 2002. What happens when that media goes south (and we have had how many stories predicting that it won't last forever)? I'm screwed basically.

Gates' idea, while nice for corporations that would control the media, wouldn't be so great for the consumers. The RIAA/MPAA would just LOVE to control and watch how many times you watch/listen to something and charge you accordingly. I don't think that the people would though. While he might be talking about a more local storage location I doubt it. Sad but true...

Let's try and develop nearly indestructible media and keep the storage local and out of corporation control. When he says the "TV" will be able to tell if we can watch the content or not I am fearful that he is less concerned with our children's virgin eyes and more concerned with whether our bank accounts can afford it.

Here's the link.

Honestly, it ain't gonna happen. The next time Microsoft says "Hey, it's time to pay the Windoze tax and upgrade!" I think they'll find everyone is switching to Linux instead. Same hassle, half the price. If you want to make some good money in the not too distant future, I suggest you hone your skills at migrating IT shops from Windows to Linux. That's going to be a nice little boom market for a few years, starting right about the time Microsoft tries to ram Longhorn down our throats. All cliches aside, I will most definitely welcome our new penguin overlords.

I think this article sums it all up rather nicely.

Oh, and once they lose the corporate market, they'll lose the home market shortly afterwards. Think about it. If Joe Blow uses Linux at work and likes it, imagine his reaction when he asks the IT guy where to get it and the IT guy hands him a copy of it on disc because it's "free." Microsoft got into the server space by winning the home user first. Linux is going the other way.

Nah. Cisco has a large marketshare. And there sure isn't as much negative feeling about it. Sure their products aren't really that great and all that, but they don't resort to as many underhanded tactics as MS.

There are other large dominant companies who don't create as much bad feeling especially amongst people who really KNOW the companies.

Even Intel doesn't play as dirty as Microsoft - which is why Intel doesn't get as much attention from the antitrust people. In fact Intel has guidelines for its employees so that they are less likely to fall foul of the antitrust ppl.

e.g.
"Don't, without ILT pre-approval:

1. Refuse to deal with or re-license an existing customer (particularly in Europe);
2. Limit to whom, where or from what locations customers can resell products bought from Intel;
3. Require any customer or supplier not to deal with another maker of similar products, or require any customer to buy all or nearly all such products from Intel;
4. Require customers to purchase the full line of any type of products offered by Intel. "

I suppose ILT = Intel Legal Team?

Even if Intel isn't loved by so many, it isn't really hated by people. Sure they're tough and maybe ruthless, but hey that's business. That's like getting a hard but legal tackle on the field. Sure you don't like it, but it's legal.

But MS's astroturfing, IP theft when they think they can get away with it, they're like one of those sports people who play dirty _everytime_ they think the referee isn't looking, or if they think it's worth risking going to the sin bin for, or being yellow carded or whatever.

Thing is, is it really necessary for them to do all that? MS Office is actually quite decent compared to the other competitors. They have lots of smart people in their organization, just do the technical and marketing stuff well, and skip the dirty tricks.

Don't ask me to list down all the dirty stuff MS did. There are so many - intentionally breaking MSN for opera, gathering info on other software for Windows 95's registration wizard, DR DOS, Stac Technologies. Many more - just do a search on microsoft and dirty tricks or something like that. If you really knew what Microsoft did, it'll seem like they really operate differently from most other companies. Almost as if dirty tricks are the rule and not the exception for them.

I doubt Coca Cola is hated that much, if at all.

Could be. Here's a possibly related story .

haha heres a link for ya Pirates lose market share

The failed business model in question is the record companies' stranglehold on the music industry.

Few people seem to realize the hypocrisy of their sudden rush to "protect the rights of artists." (When did an "artist" become someone who makes music, not someone who paints? When did "musician" become a dirty word?) The biggest threat to those rights is, and always has been, the record companies themselves.

"The artist formerly known as Prince" didn't change his name to a weird symbol on a whim; he did it because before he was famous, a record company had gotten him to sign a contract so one-sided that they even owned his real-life name. (yes, it's Prince ... talk about child abuse) Going back a few years, the singers and songwriters of some of the real classics of modern music, especially (though far from exclusively) those who were not white males, were paid a pittance for their work that record companies made a fortune from. In court, the record companies have insisted time and again that $100 was more than fair compensation for all rights to a song that they made tens of millions of dollars off of.

Even today, most musicians see only a tiny fraction, if any, of the money from the sales of their CDs. They earn their money primarily from concerts. The money from that overpriced CD -- the one that sells for twice what a DVD of a movie that cost a hundred million dollars to film -- goes straight to the record company, and stays there.

The record companies have a lock on the distribution of music. Anyone can rent a studio and make a CD ... even me (William Hung move over!) ... but if they want to get it in the record stores and on the radio, they have to sell their soul to a record company.

That's why P2P scares the living shit out of the record companies. They know what the real numbers are, not the doctored ones they show Congress. They know that their serfs are deserting them for independant labels and self-distribution. They know that the massive consolidation of radio station ownership since Orrin Hatch and his buddies threw out rules that had preserved competition for decades and handed the market over to their supporter and propaganda wing Clear Channel is costing them a fortune in payola. And I'm sure they know that they're turning out endless streams of overpriced music that, fundamentally, sucks.

But they can't do anything about that. (except maybe the sucky music) They know they're dinosaurs. The know the industry has changed, and their chosen business model -- total control of production, distribution, and sales of music -- is going the way of a business model based on total control of buggy whips. So they're getting people like Orrin Hatch to pass laws to force the market to continue to support that model.

It isn't fans sharing music by the record companies' serfs that the companies fear ... they know, their public statements to the contrary, it isn't hurting their sales, and quite possibly either increasing them or offsetting what would be a greater decline. What leaves them terrified is the existance of a distribution channel that they don't and can't control which will free musicians from being serfs of the record companies in the first place. They fear a system that will allow musicans to keep on doing what they already do -- making their money off of concerts and other sources of revenue -- and not have to sign their lives and their rights over to any record company. They know a system which connects the producer and the consumer directly will have no place for parasites that have gotten fat from feeding off both ends of the line.

This is the sa

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find that this "Secunia" derives funding from a common source with SCO.

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find that this "Secunia" derives funding from a common source with SCO.

If you want the Symantec release re-written by someone who knows what they're talking about, look here.

"Evaman occupies a false email address" doesn't fill me with respect for CoolTechZone's credentials.

Okay, fine, users are dumb. How how about we give them a slight break in this case? Failed deliveries are far enough out of most people's 'normal' e-mail experience that i can understand why they'd read the message. No it doesn't excuse opening anything with .scr, but txt.scr, html.scr, outlook.scrtxt.exe might dupe your avg users.

Anyways, here's a better article linked by McAfee and The Article That Started It All from the Sydney Morning Herald. Perusing the summaries off of Google News makes it seem like this will either be "unlikely to have a major impact on Australian businesses." or (now this is really crazy because it's from the same website, but a different article) "clog mail servers, cause severe slowdown and wreak financial damage as it spreads rapidly around the world when businesses return to work today"

I love that everyone can quote the Sydney Morning Herald to report that the sky is falling, or that things will mostly be okay. how do two journalists end up with such completely different viewpoints? They both quote Tim Hartman

"Tim Hartman, senior technical director at the security firm Symantec, said Evaman had the potential to be "every bit as bad as MyDoom. It's really shaping up like that. Mr Hartman estimated the virus would spread at an uncontrollable rate as people returned to work"

"We don't think it's going to be a major outbreak... most businesses had been able to filter out the affected emails" Mr Hartman said.

If you want the Symantec release re-written by someone who knows what they're talking about, look here.

"Evaman occupies a false email address" doesn't fill me with respect for CoolTechZone's credentials.

Sorry, Steve Jobs already beat BillyGoat Gates to the punch.

The Inquirer: "A plan by the European Council of Ministers to force the continent wide adoption of the Directive on Software Patents suffered a blow yesterday when the Dutch Parliament ordered a minister to withdraw the country's support".

Groklaw says "The Dutch parliament is making news. It has just withdrawn its vote for the Directive on Software Patents. It's a proof-of-concept vote, you might say, the first time such a move has been taken in the history of the EU, demonstrating that other countries are free to do the same, as we reported on June 22.".

In Germany, Heise covers the story. In the Netherlands, the story is making headlines all over the place, lik e for example on webwereld and Tweakers.net.

This sudden change of direction is a long story, in which a classic case of desinformation of the Parliament triggered a whole process of debates and motions.

Does anybody know where they got their ideas from? Their point doesn't seem all that valid to me - why would Apple stop taking orders if they wanted to get rid of a mountain of iMacs?

Does anybody know where they got their ideas from? Their point doesn't seem all that valid to me - why would Apple stop taking orders if they wanted to get rid of a mountain of iMacs?

ummm given who owns Lotus, and the alleged direction of their own desktops, I'd be really, really surprised not to see a Linux native Notes in the not too distant future.

they're called IBM T221's, and we've had them for about 2 years now.

These are probably re-badged, re-assembled models of exactly the same technology.

Incredibly though, I think the IBM T221's are cheaper...

Here are some. Some may be a year or so old, and I don't recall what links I sent as examples. Google should help you find all you need.

Microsoft software "riddled with vulnerabilities", trade body claims
30 unpatched holes in IE, says security researcher
Credit card theft feared in Windows flaw | CNET News.com
Microsoft Issues Five New Security Warnings
Microsoft WinXP Update spies on other PC software
Microsoft issues patch for "serious" XP hole
Microsoft Windows Insecure by Design (TechNews.com)
Server attacks stump Microsoft
Windows flaw threatens PC services
Gartner: Worms Jack Up the Total Cost of Windows
CERT recommends anything but IE
Exploiting design flaws in the Win32 API for privilege escalation
Worm Exploits Multiple Windows Vulnerabilities
Unpatched Internet Explorer Bugs

Here are some. Some may be a year or so old, and I don't recall what links I sent as examples. Google should help you find all you need.

Microsoft software "riddled with vulnerabilities", trade body claims
30 unpatched holes in IE, says security researcher
Credit card theft feared in Windows flaw | CNET News.com
Microsoft Issues Five New Security Warnings
Microsoft WinXP Update spies on other PC software
Microsoft issues patch for "serious" XP hole
Microsoft Windows Insecure by Design (TechNews.com)
Server attacks stump Microsoft
Windows flaw threatens PC services
Gartner: Worms Jack Up the Total Cost of Windows
CERT recommends anything but IE
Exploiting design flaws in the Win32 API for privilege escalation
Worm Exploits Multiple Windows Vulnerabilities
Unpatched Internet Explorer Bugs

Don't worry about dual PCIe x16 motherboards ... remember nVidia make chipsets as well. Expect an nForce4 chipset at the end of this year supporting their new SLI technology with two PCIe x16 slots supported

Of course, when you are spending $400 apiece on graphics cards, will you really be skimping on the processor and motherboard?

Why would they design something like this and force it to use a Xeon?

No one. Who did you have in mind?

(Hint: Nforce 4)

Lieberfarb's lawyer is David Boies of Microsoft anti-trust and Microsoft-funded SCO suit fame. The Newsweek article fucks this up: "Boise" is what they write.

Tin-foil hat time: deliberate misspelling?

What's interesting is that this comes on the heels of what could've been a PR mess for AMD. The Opteron errata are unlikely to be hit by compiler-generated code, and AMD's taken the appropriate countermeasures (the mentioned BIOS patching, and alerting the world so compiler vendors and so on can test for the cases), but I was expecting Intel backers to try to play it up on par with the FDIV bug. (It isn't, if you're too lazy to read the link.)

Instead, not only do we get this Intel oops (which actually isn't a bad one, if it only entails eating CMOS batteries quick... my old Nx586 system -- remember NexGen? -- used to go through one every few months before I gave up and built an external AA pack for it)... but we get this Intel oops distracting the attention from more serious issues in the next Pentium 4. Bugs that, when you think about it, are a bit more worrisome for not being easily fixed in software.

Sorry, Intel, looks like this round goes well in favor of AMD.

What's interesting is that this comes on the heels of what could've been a PR mess for AMD. The Opteron errata are unlikely to be hit by compiler-generated code, and AMD's taken the appropriate countermeasures (the mentioned BIOS patching, and alerting the world so compiler vendors and so on can test for the cases), but I was expecting Intel backers to try to play it up on par with the FDIV bug. (It isn't, if you're too lazy to read the link.)

Instead, not only do we get this Intel oops (which actually isn't a bad one, if it only entails eating CMOS batteries quick... my old Nx586 system -- remember NexGen? -- used to go through one every few months before I gave up and built an external AA pack for it)... but we get this Intel oops distracting the attention from more serious issues in the next Pentium 4. Bugs that, when you think about it, are a bit more worrisome for not being easily fixed in software.

Sorry, Intel, looks like this round goes well in favor of AMD.

Maybe we should outlaw fertilizer and diesel fuel, since they have actually been used for terrorist acts.

And we should also outlaw laptop and cellphone batteries. People have been hurt with those.

Sorry, I should have included it, Find out more info here

Firstly it should be remembered that the 'owned' part is a bit subjective as most of the project could live on regardless of 'ownership' thanks to it being opensource. But regardless of that.. am I the only one that finds the prospect of microsoft buying SpamAssassin a bit odd?
Microsoft to buy Network Associates?

At the very least they'd be buying the name and the tarted up version of SpamAssassin sold as SpamKiller.

Unlike AMD and Intel?
BTW did you know that Intel powers 286 of the supercomputers in the top 500 list? 3 years ago Intel had only 3 systems on the list.

The NX flag was only announced 18th March, so I'd say that was 'quickly', not 'finally'. It only made it into Linux 20 days ago

They won't run XBox 1 games of the new XBox, but the dev kits for the new XBox run off a modded windows NT kernel that runs off a G5

I would expect this from Microsoft. They can blame the spam filters, to try and save face, but the simple fact is, they are simply taking a page from their own rulebook; they don't want to lose advertising revenue from people switching to Gmail, so they are breaking the law and interfering with email. If Microsoft had successfully bought Google to trash it, Gmail would not have existed at all. For those of you just tuning in, Hotmail is owned and operated by Microsoft, after they bought the service in 1998. I was a Hotmail member prior to Microsoft being involved and the service has declined significantly since the old days. Although many of the features have improved since then, the bulk of the Hotmail service is becoming increasingly unreliable for email that just "has to get there".

In other news, we've got lots of Gmail invites for military folks here, so if you want Gmail for large files and you are a soldier, or if you want to donate your invites to soldiers, check us out. This is not just for American military, but any democratic military, such as Canada or the UK.

Anybody notice this? Link

Apparently the BTX form factor (of which LGA is a part) has been heavily resisted by many Taiwanese chassis, mainboard and heatsink manufacturers.

But what's new here? Word has it that this time round, the Taiwanese heastink, mainboard and PSU manufacturers - and quite a lot of them it would seem - are being rather less than enthusiastic or co-operative, about the sweeping changes and support that Intel is asking, nay demanding, of them.

I'd be interested to see if Intel can actually strong-arm them into it