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Windows 7 pre-beta has been released to developers, and ZDnet have posted their impressions. Is it a major release or just a revamped Windows Vista? That’s the big question surrounding Windows 7, which made its public debut in a keynote address by Steven Sinofsky today at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Microsoft executives showed off the new Windows upgrade in a day-long series of demos on Sunday, doing their level best to impress a room full of journalists with a long list of new and improved features. At the end of the day, they loaned me a sleek new Lenovo X300 notebook running a recent build of the OS so that I could test Windows 7 for myself.
Here's a few more Intrepid Ibex articles. Reviews here and here, while elsewhere there are guides on installing ubuntu on a mac, creating the perfect server and the 10 things you should do after installing ubuntu.
Valve released the Left 4 Dead introduction on Halloween. The over four-minute, entirely in-engine movie was created by the same internal Valve team that produced the acclaimed Team Fortress 2 "Meet the" videos. Not quite in time for Halloween, Left 4 Dead will hit Xbox 360 and PC on November 18. The demo will be released on November 11, or November 6 for pre-order customers.
The PC version of Grand Theft Auto 4 has been postponed. With all the exciting new games storming PCs and consoles lately—Fable 2, Fallout 3, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and Mirror's Edge, to name a few—a console port getting postponed isn't exactly the end of the world. Nonetheless, IGN reports that the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV now won't make it to stores until December 2. As we reported in August, Rockstar originally planned to have the PC port out on November 18 in North America.
Today's timewaster is The Great Basement Escape. Time once again to plan your escape. This time from the basement. Bwahahah. Good Luck!
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