XP Deadline Extended for "Low-Cost" PCs

Microsoft has actually listened to us. Sort of.

They are extending the life of Windows XP so that new computer manufacturers can include the operating system on low-cost desktop PCs until 2010. The company made the announcement at the Computex trade show on Tuesday.

Microsoft extended its deadline for selling Windows XP licenses for low-cost laptops like the Asus Eee PC in April. Originally it had planned to stop selling most XP licenses on June 30.

VIA: Lifehacker

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OK, so this might be stretching the use of the description "Technology" just a bit, but I found it interesting.

Ponca City, We Love You writes "The tower of Pisa began to lean five years after its construction began, in 1178, and by 1990 it had tilted more than four meters off its true vertical. Conservationists estimated that the entire 14,500-ton structure would collapse ‘some time between 2030 and 2040.’ Now the Leaning Tower of Pisa has been stabilized and declared safe for at least another three centuries. The stabilization, which cost $30M, was accomplished by anchoring it to cables and lead counterweights, while 70 tons of soil were removed from the side away from the lean, and cement was injected into the ground to relieve the pressure. The tilt has now returned to where it was in the early 19th century. (more…)

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