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Microsoft will end OEM and shrink-wrapped sales of Windows XP on June 30, 2008, forcing users to shift to Vista. (System builders, meaning those who do white-box PCs, can sell XP through December 31.) Don’t let that happen!
Millions of us have grown comfortable with XP and don’t see a need to change to Vista. It’s like having a comfortable apartment that you’ve enjoyed coming home to for years, only to get an eviction notice. The thought of moving to a new place — even with the stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, and maple cabinets (or is cherry in this year?) — just doesn’t sit right. Maybe it’ll be more modern, but it will also cost more and likely not be as good a fit. And you don’t have any other reason to move.
That’s exactly the conclusion people have come to with Vista. For most of us, there’s really no reason to move to it — yet we don’t have a choice. When that strong desire to stick with XP became obvious in spring 2007, major computer makers such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard quietly reintroduced new XP-based systems (but just to business customers, so as not to offend Microsoft). Come June 30, however, even that option goes away.
So what to do? Let Microsoft decide where your personal and enterprise software “lives”? Or send a loud and clear message that you don’t want to move?
We’re going for the loud-and-clear option. Join us, and tell Microsoft that you want to keep XP available indefinitely. Not for another six months or a year but indefinitely.
And ask your friends and colleagues to join in, too. Just point them to SaveXP.com for a quick link to this page. And if you’d like to publish our countdown animation on your Web site to help promote this petition, e-mail Executive Editor Galen Gruman for the code snippet.

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The hype around Grand Theft Auto IV for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 is not diminishing even with the official launch of the game earlier today at midnight. It doesn’t take a market analyst to know that the game will leave its mark in the annals of 2008’s gaming history, but said analysts might be able to provide a better estimate over just how big that mark could get.
For example, Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter explains to GameSpot that Take-Two stands to sell at least 4 million copies of the game (for both console platforms) during its first week alone, growing to 6 million by its fourth week in the market. While Pachter believes the Xbox 360 edition of GTA IV will outsell the PS3 release by a "three-to-two" ratio, sales between the two versions should be more evenly split come December.
By the end of December 2008, Pachter predicts sales for GTA IV could well hit 11 to 13 million units. After its first year, sales should slow somewhat, making for an overall "lifetime" sales number of 16 to 19 million units. This will actually be a little lower than the 21.5 million unit liftime-to-date sales garnered by GTA: San Andreas. Time will tell, naturally!
Take-Two itself is confident GTA IV sales will beat all these expectations, and then some. The publisher appears to be betting on first week sales figures of $400 million USD, or about 6 million copies of GTA IV sold. This is already being compared to Halo 3’s stellar launch week revenue of around $300 million USD through selling 5 million units.

neoseeker.com

GTA IV Cheats
Posted by adamcs at 12:39. Site: GTA4. Category: General
If you have the game already and want some fun (or if you are simply crap at it) then you might want to check out this list of confirmed cheat codes. All cheats have been tested successfully on the Xbox 360 version of the game.
All cheats should be entered during normal gameplay using Niko’s cellphone. Enjoy.
In other news, the GTA forums have been expanded to include several new forums, so the chaos has spread a bit and is now a little easier for us to manage. Remember that registering is free.

gtanet.com

I think the download has something to do with the PS3 version being in FULL HD 1080p.
Could that be it? if anyone knows please post.
I think the download has something to do with the PS3 version being in FULL HD 1080p. Could that be it? if anyone knows please post.

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