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General Electric has introduced a micro-holographic disc that can store up to 500GB of data today, aimed at the archive industry and users with massive movie and music collections. The company knows the market for the disc is small now, but believes it can eventually be used in standalone players, just like DVDs and Blu-rays are now. DVDs can hold up to 8.5GB and BD-50 can hold up to 50GB. Micro-holographic discs can store so much data because the store information in three dimensions, rather than just having the info written on the surface of the disc. Brian Lawrence, head of GE's Holographic Storage team added, "Very recently, the team at GE has made dramatic improvements in the materials enabling significant increases in the amount of light that can be reflected by the holograms." Now that the higher reflexivity is a possibility, the technology can be used in new standalone players that are backwards compatible with DVD and Blu-ray discs. Added GE: "The hardware and formats are so similar to current optical storage technology that the micro-holographic players will enable consumers to play back their CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs." "GE's breakthrough is a huge step toward bringing our next generation holographic storage technology to the everyday consumer," noted Lawrence in a separate statement. Lawerence concluded, "The day when you can store your entire high definition movie collection on one disc and support high resolution formats like 3D television is closer than you think."

It is kind of funny that one of your product that works well. you try it to go away but it simply won't. similar is the case with microsoft Windows XP. People simply don't weant to quit it.

Perhaps the biggest surprise - and for Microsoft, possibly the biggest boost - is a feature that has been announced but not yet available: Windows XP Mode, which will run XP applications in an XP compatibility box, but make them appear as if they are running directly in Windows 7 itself. In this way, Microsoft hopes to give users the best of both worlds - the compatibility of XP and the shinier new Windows 7 interface.The feature sounds underwhelming until you dig into the details. According to Microsoft, you won't actually have to manually run Virtual PC to run those XP applications once you've installed them; instead, they will appear to work directly within Windows 7. You'll just have to run Virtual PC the first time and run the application - from that point on, it will appear to be just other application running directly in Windows 7 (at least, that's the promise). And you won't have to buy XP separately - your Windows 7 EULA (end-user licence agreement) includes XP as well. In essence, you get two operating systems for the price of one.This solves one of Microsoft's biggest problems with XP very cleverly - it's such a solid, stable operating system that people simply don't want to give it up to move to a newer operating system. Now they don't have to - they can run XP as if it were a part of Windows 7.Microsoft says Windows XP Mode will soon be ready for download, and as soon as it is, I'll follow up with a report on how well it works.

Microsoft released their latest offering on 5th may hoping that it will turn their fortune like XP did after windows 2000. Vista did prove it self as windows 2000. but it seems not that way. i downloaded the rc on day one,two and three once every day. first two times after downloading integrity check failed and had to download again. the install was similar to vista. but that was ok. only things that i found changed was wallpapers now change automatically. taskbar is now superbar which is annoying. calculator is changed. lol. no new file system is included. also it is not much better than vista. more on it later