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XP Users Are Willing To Give Windows 7 a Chance 720

Posted by kdawson on Monday August 17, 2009 @11:49PM from the light-at-the-end-of-the-long-tunnel-that-is-vista dept.

Harry writes "PC World and Technologizer conducted a survey of 5,000 people who use Windows XP as their primary operating system. Many have no plans to leave it, and 80% will be unhappy when Microsoft completely discontinues it. And attitudes towards Vista remain extremely negative. But a majority of those who know something about Windows 7 have a positive reaction. More important, 70 percent of respondents who have used Windows 7 say they like it, which is a sign that Windows 7 stands a chance of being what Vista never was: an upgrade good enough to convince most XP users to switch."

Bing Users' Click-Through Rate 55% Higher Than Google Users' 268

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 26, 2009 @02:30PM from the hey-now-I-like-that-ads-subsidize-stuff dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Techcrunch is running a story that shows some pretty significant differences in the clicking habits of users of Yahoo, Google, and Bing. As it turns out, folks who arrive at websites via Bing are 55% more likely to click on an ad than if they arrived from Google (data based on the Chitika network). Essentially, people who use Bing are far more susceptible to advertising. Bing has acquired a decent market share in such a short time, but could it just be that they've reaped the low hanging fruit of those particularly persuaded by advertising? When their huge marketing campaign winds down, what kind of staying power will it have?"

Comment It will come in poll form... (Score 1) 284

by EtherAlchemist on Sunday December 28, 2008 @09:56PM (#26253885) Attached to: What Will Spam Be Like In 20 Years?

...and look exactly like this poll.

Comment Ahh, Florida... (Score 1) 891

by EtherAlchemist on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @02:03PM (#22490870) Attached to: New Science Standards Approved in Florida

... Where the old go to retire and the stupid go to get into politics.

Submission + - Goldman Sachs demotes Microsoft stock

Submitted by AJWM on Friday April 13, 2007 @01:04PM

AJWM writes: Not quite Black Friday (the 13th) for Microsoft, but Goldman Sachs demoted Microsoft stock a couple of days ago. Surprising for a stock in the Dow-Jones Industrial Average.

Submission + - Closest Look Ever of the "Face of Mars"

Submitted by

Riding with Robots

on Friday April 13, 2007 @12:26PM

Riding with Robots writes: "The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned the sharpest view ever of the famous "Face of Mars." The formation's reputation as an alien artifact stemmed from a 1970s Viking image. In recent years, different lighting conditions and much, much higher resolution views have dispelled the illusion of an ancient Martian monument, but the new pictures give modern Mars explorers additional clues about the water ice that may lie just below the surface. You can download the full-resolution version, which the circumspect MRO team has labeled simply, "Popular Landform in Cydonia Region." Meanwhile, NASA has just released a report explaining the likely fate of the Mars Global Surveyor, which went suddenly silent last year after a decade of service."

Submission + - Fox selling American Idol singles as DRM-free MP3s

Submitted by IdolFan on Thursday March 15, 2007 @06:08PM

IdolFan writes: Signaling yet another blow to the forces of DRM, Fox has decided to sell the singles from this season's American Idol finalists in high-quality (320kbps), unencumbered, MP3 format — for $0.99 a song. This hasn't been widely announced, so it's not clear if this is a permanent shift in strategy, or just a trial balloon.

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