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    Windows 8 Customer Preview Apps Listed

    jackblingYour username suits you.The registry "hack" will still exist, but will be pointless, as the ability to disable metro will be done through a GUI (similar to disabling uac) No it wont. It was explicitely stated the Metro is mandatory and there will be no option to turn it off... Until...
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    Windows 8 Customer Preview Apps Listed

    caedenvIt will not be a hack, there will be an option to turn it off within control panel... unless you have the ARM version which will not have the traditional desktop at all, which kinda sucks. So yes, you will have to deal with Metro for a whole 10 minutes while loading the OS and fixing...
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    Windows 8 Customer Preview Apps Listed

    gnesterenkoDon't like Metro? Turn it off The registry hack wont be available in the final version... Dont know what you are talking about? Still comments!
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    Windows 8 Customer Preview Apps Listed

    Metro will still suck.
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    In Pictures: 16 Of The PC Industry's Most Epic Failures

    jaquithHmm...you overlooked biggies like:Recall of Intel's P67/H67 chipset -- SATA2 Bug ; 2011Recall of Intel's P5 Pentium floating point unit (FPU) FDIV bug ; 1994Microsoft's - Windows ME and Windows Vista ; horrible OSesThere's a lot more. It was a manufacturing failure that only affected the...
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    In Pictures: 16 Of The PC Industry's Most Epic Failures

    belardoI would say... yes. A friend bought an FX-3 core (er I mean "6 core") CPU / mobo / RAM a few days ago, I showed him how the FX8150 doesn't compare to any i5 CPU and is slower than some of AMD PII-X4 CPUs.He's taking it back and getting the i5.I've been waiting to upgrade back to AMD...
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    In Pictures: 16 Of The PC Industry's Most Epic Failures

    CleeveI never got why Vista was considered so terrible. Yeah, user account control was irritating, but if you disable it you're getting 99% of the Windows 7 experience. I never jumped on the 'I hate Vista!' bandwagon. I actually had it on my server until very recently.Windows ME... now there I...
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    ARM CEO Says Windows 8 Tablets Might Have Edge Over Android

    ARM tablets are dead to me. Long live x86 tablets.
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    Blizzard Makes Even More Changes to Diablo 3

    JprobesNot every article about Blizzard requires the obligatory Anti-Kotick rant. It does.
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    Blizzard Makes Even More Changes to Diablo 3

    anony9439Really sounds to me like they are just stripping stuff to include in a DLC later.. Im hoping for a 15$ 0day DLC!
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    Blizzard Makes Even More Changes to Diablo 3

    HotRoderXMaybe its me but the changes seem to be taking the game into a extremely casual realm. That's my biggest gripe with World of Warcraft its more a social simulation then a action game. All aspects of World of Warcraft have been dumbed down to the point where its pretty much impossible to...
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    Intel Paying $120M For RealNetworks Patents, Video Codecs

    I hope to never see a damned .rm file ever again. Please Intel, loot the company and kill it with fire when you are done. RealPlayer, next to iTunes/Quicktime is one of the most loathed piece of ''software'' ever created IMO.
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    Blizzard Puts World of Warcraft Server Blades Up for Auction

    electrontauThe old auction was for US realms. This time the European realms servers are on the auction. It sure is newsworthy then! /s
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    Blizzard Puts World of Warcraft Server Blades Up for Auction

    atotalnoobThe servers all seem to be at 100$....Not bad for an used server...Screw the fact it is from WoW These are blades. If you have nothing to put them into, its worth 0$.