Amazon: Vista SP1 available from Wednesday

Amazon appears to have let the cat out of the bag as regards the public launch of the long-awaited Vista SP1.

According to the online retailer the update will be included with new boxed versions of Vista in the US from Wednesday 19 March. UK customers will apparently have to wait until 4th April for a boxed copy of Vista complete with the update.

Does this mean that Vista SP1 will also be released for public download on Wednesday, or will Microsoft put itself in the rather embarrassing position of missing its own delivery date?

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Monday, March 17th, 2008

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Fresh from Blu-ray, Sony takes aim at HDDs

Not content with the deep Blu-ray notch in its techno bedpost, Sony is aiming for another conquest; this time in a league it has never before tackled - computer hard drives.

Like the patterned media (PM) method we saw a few weeks ago, Sony’s magneto-optical hybrid (MOH) storage technique promises data densities of up to 1 Terabit per square inch [Subscription link]. That’s far ahead of what can be squeezed onto existing hard drives and promises 1TB laptop drives if successful.

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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

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