Windows 7 suprise feature

9.5.8

Microsoft's upcoming OS (Operating System) W7 (Windows 7) will let people beta test it for about a year before they are required to purcha$e a 'valid' key.
To insure this M$ has a build in 'secret' feature...

From March 1, 2010 the Windows 7 RC will have bi-hourly (every two hours) shutdowns although it actually expires on June 1. The same will occur with the beta, with shutdowns commencing on July 1, 2009 and the actual software expiring on August 1 this year.

ps. W7 is only about 5% faster than vista.

W7 system req
1GHz 32 bit (x86) or 64 bit (x64) CPU,
1GB (32 bit) or 2GB (64 bit) of memory,
16GB (32 bit) or 20GB (64 bit) of hard drive space
and a DirectX 9 compatible graphics card with Windows Display Driver Model 1.0 or higher.
If you plan to use XP Mode you will need at least 2GB of RAM, 15GB of additional disk space and a CPU which supports chip level virtualization.

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Rumor the upcoming 5 series ATI gpu with +2 Tflop processing power.
The ATI Radeon 5870, 40nm
DX11 tweek, shader model 5,
RV870
1200 cores, (12 SIMD groups with 100 cores each [twenty 5D units])
48 texture memory units, 32 Rasterizing OPerating units... means 32 pixels in each clock.
140GBps bandwidth (i.e. 4870 is 115GBps)

! ATI has gone from 1 Tflop (HD4870) to 4 Tflop (HD 5870 x2) in 13 months!
Hope for retail by this July 2009.