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Did you hear the latest from Microsoft? The software giant has started to roll out Windows 7 Service Pack 1 as an automatic update, never mind that Service Pack 1 was originally released a couple of years ago. Good thing that the Microsoft folks have decided to make this an automatic update instead of requiring users to install it manually using Windows Update, as you can never quite tell when a momentary lapse in concentration or a short memory could result in not installing the Service Pack 1, which could result in a system be compromised down the road.

Microsoft said as of today, “the installation will be fully automatic with no user action required for those who already have Automatic Update enabled. SP1 will be released gradually over the coming weeks to all customers on the RTM version of Windows 7.” Basically, that is what we love computers to move towards to – smarter software that requires less maintenance on the part of the consumer, without compromising on safety and security. Are you still using Windows 7 as your operating system of choice at this point in time, or have you already moved to the beauty that is Windows 8?

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If you are one who cannot get enough of benchmarks, and are always on the lookout to ensure that your hardware is on the cutting edge of things, then you might want to consider picking up the Digital Storm Hailstorm II, assuming your current gaming PC is on its last legs, and is long overdue for a replacement. The Digital Storm Hailstorm II comes with enough space to stash up to a quartet of radiators (ranging from 140mm to 480mm sizes), in addition to a quadruple GPU and dual CPU configuration, allowing you to arrive at an unprecedented level of performance and customization.

There will also be three front intake fans and a large rear exhaust fan to ensure that cooling within the system is maximized, and if your budget permits, you can include up to 15 fans in total, making the Hailstorm II carry one of the most powerful airflow designs available, while delivering prolonged stability and making sure that every component will be able to operate at peak performance with zero heat related bottlenecks.

Other than that, the sleek brushed aluminum front panel will open up to show off enough space for ten expansion slots, up to nine hard drives or SSD with three hot-swap mounts, four 5.25” optical drive bays, and both 2x USB 3.0 ports and 4x USB 2.0 ports. Any takers?

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The only reason you can read this on your computer or mobile device is because of the Internet, where five engineers were the ones behind the Internet. Good to know that after all of these years, these engineers were given additional recognition, where they were awarded with a $1.5-million prize that the British organisers hope will eventually be on par with the Nobel Prize when it comes to engineering.

Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf as well as Marc Andreessen of the US will share in this inaugural £1-million Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering with Louis Pouzin of France and Tim Berners-Lee of Britain. According to Alec Broers, chair of the judging panel, “The emergence of the internet and the web involved many teams of people all over the world. However, these five visionary engineers, never before honoured together as a group, led the key developments that shaped the internet and web as a coherent system and brought them into public use.”

Kahn, Cerf and Pouzin were credited to have made “seminal” contributions to the design and protocols which right now make up the fundamental architecture of the Internet, while Berners-Lee is the one who was credited with “inventing’ the World Wide Web. Better late than never, no?

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I will be the first to admit that I would be pretty surprised if the above were to be true, that Microsoft Windows 9 will hit the markets sometime next November. It just feels too soon, and do we really need a next generation desktop operating system even before the entire world has made Windows 8 as their operating system of choice for millions of computers worldwide? One thing’s for sure though, you can bet your bottom dollar that Microsoft is definitely working on a next generation of their desktop operating system, but what they have decided to call it, and when will it roll out to the masses, remain to be seen. It would be a waste of time, too, to speculate on such details.

Win8China, a site that has provided a bunch of Windows leaks in the past which were hits (as well as misses), claimed that the software giant is working on Windows 9 for a tentative November 2014 product launch, and it would be as early as next January where we will be able to check out a beta. This, however, does jive with whispers on the street that Windows would get a yearly operating system update, and Windows Blue being touted to be a Windows 8 update later this year, so what’s stopping Windows 9 from a November 2014 release? All in all, we will be on our toes to make sure that when Windows 9 arrives, we will report it.

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Out with the old, and in with the new. Granted, Google Reader is an RSS reader, and what we are going to focus on here would be Google Keep, a potential note taking service that will most probably be in the same vein as Evernote or Pocket, and it has also been given the codename “Memento” that definitely sheds more light on what the entire shebang is all about. Google did leave some digital “bread crumbs” behind, such as the URL https://drive.google.com/keep/ which incidentally, directs you to a fake “Page Not Found”, while the URL http://g.co/keep sends you to a non-existent Play Store app.

Not only that, you will be able to check out the service’s favicons here and here. It was discovered that a link for Google Keep was discovered in a screenshot for Instant Preview in the Android browser back in July last year, where “Add to Google Keep” might eventually be a common feature that we see in websites from now on. What do you think?

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