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Oldest active PC in the world

An IBM 5160 and its Intel 8088 processor (from 1983) is still in use today by PHI Data in the Netherlands. HP and Intel gave the company some new Pentium 4 computers with LCD screens, but they will continue to use the IBM 5160 to test matrix printers. Note to Scoble: Microsoft should have a press release and a party in the Netherlands when PHI Data purchases their first copy of Windows….

Xbox Live connecting the troops

Microsoft has set up Xbox Live connections at U.S.O. centers around the United States as well as overseas bases. Not only does this allow for good rest and relaxation time, but Microsoft gains loyal users. Using the same product every day in the helps sell products back home when those troops are on leave. It has helped Jeep and Coke, and should help the Xbox as well….

A machine can now do science

Economist.com reports on an article in the January 15 edition of Nature. “The robot scientist developed by Ross King of the University of Wales at Aberystwyth, and his colleagues, does everything a flesh-and-blood scientist does?or, rather, it does what philosophers of science say that scientists ought to do. That is, it formulates hypotheses from observations, conducts experiments to test them, and then formulates new hypotheses from the results. And worse, from the point of view of the human researcher, it does so as effectively as a person.”…

Personal Firewall Day

Today is Personal Firewall Day. Visit Microsoft’s Protect site to make sure you are doing everything you can on your PC. I use Norton AntiVirus 2004 on my computers. If you plan on using tax software this season there are often deals combining tax preparation software and antivirus solutions. Resolve to keep your computer and others free up-to-date and clean!…

Eric Rudder

Eric Rudder, Senior VP of Developer and Platform Evangelism at Microsoft, will be speaking at the Commonwealth Club of California on Thursday, February 5 at 6:00 P.M. $10 for members, $18 for non-members….