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First, KDE is making a mess of the competition by making waves in their KDE for Windows project. Just think: your favorite KDE apps are coming to live on Windows.

Second, Linux now has better compatibility than Windows Vista does for its programs.

For those businesses out there, Open Source is really changing things and shaking the market up. What most people used to think was just a start-up company's bread-and-butter for cutting costs, is now saving everyone and their dog. Some people are even willing to call it "mainstream."   

Want another distribution to try? Take a gander at the latest masterpiece that lauds exactly what every Linux start-up does: Easy for everyone to use. Let us hope so, Ulteo.

Lastly, for those music fans that have a nice mp3 player that shows album art, but just never got any: fret not. Open-Source has a cure, and it can be found here for Linux and Windows. Yay

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Google reacted quickly since Microsoft propositioned Yahoo!. ZDNET has the story.

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Microsoft is using their might to oust the Yahoo! board of directors. They have decided to kick it up a notch and try to takeover Yahoo! in a hostile manner.

SanDisk, an authority in non-volatile memory, announced today that they have released a new line of SanDisk Ultra II SDHC flash memory cards. The new SD cards have capacities of 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB. Read on for more information.

With the new graphics cards hitting the market, there is always the need to power them. Several sites released power supply reviews to help with the decision-making. Anandtech talks about the long awaited futuremark endeavor into a full fledged real game. We can only imagine.

Pirates of the Burning Sea @ bit-tech

ASUS P5E3 Premium @ [H]Enthusiast

AMD CPU Efficiency Compared @ Tom's Hardware

Crysis to be demoed on consoles @ theInquirer

Seasonic M12II 500watt Power Supply @ TweakTown

Cooler Master Real Power Pro 850W @ Overclockers Online

Antec True Power Quattro 850 Watt Power Supply @ Hardware Logic

DoJ fits Microsoft for a 2-year oversight leash @ ars technica

Thermalright Ultima-90 Heatpipe CPU Cooler @ Big Bruin

Thermaltake NBcool T2000 Notebook Cooler @ Techware Labs

Futuremark: of Benchmarks and Gaming @ AnandTech

Sony PCS-XG80 1080i video conferencing system @ engadget

OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 Platinum 2gig Kit OCZ2P8002GK @ DragonSteelMods

VIA's Glenn Henry Speaks On New Low Power Isaiah Processor @ Hot Hardware

With the release of the HD 3870 X2 today, it is the hot item in today's Event Horizon. With supposed revamped drivers, the benchmarks are doing the talking. The HD 3870 X2 is the definitive winner of the graphics card market.

GECUBE Radeon HD 3870 X2 @ TweakTown

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 - Fastest Yet @ Tom's Hardware

AMD's ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 @ [H]Enthusiasts

R680 Has Landed: ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 @ Hot Hardware

Asus AMD Radeon HD 3870 X2 - AMD R680 @ PC Perspective

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2: 2 GPUs 1 Card, A Return to the High End @ AnandTech

Watercooling 201: The Waterblock @ bit-tech

Antipiracy investigators run afoul of Swiss law in P2P sweep @ ars technica

Gartner: Blu-ray to win in 2008 @ engadget