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After learning of Steve Jobs’ medical condition in the weeks before his passing, Microsoft founder Bill Gates sent a letter to the Apple CEO, giving him his best regards. Steve, according to his widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, kept the letter by his bed.

Bill Gates said in a recent interview with The Telegraph, “I told Steve about how he should feel great about what he had done and the company he had built.”

“I wrote about his kids, whom I had got to know…There was no peace to make. We were not at war. We made great products, and competition was always a positive thing. There was no [cause for] forgiveness.”

Gates said that soon after Steve Jobs' passing he received a phone call from Laurene Powell Jobs.

According to the report, she had told Gates that Walter Isaacson’s biography did not paint an accurate picture of the mutual respect between him and Jobs.

“She said: ‘Look, this biography really doesn’t paint a picture of the mutual respect you had.’ And she said he’d appreciated my letter and kept it by his bed.”

Gates regards Jobs as an “incredible genius”, despite the criticism he has received from him during their most competitive times.

Gates told the paper, “Steve was an incredible genius who contributed immensely to the field I was in. We had periods, like the early Macintosh, when we had more people working on it than they did.”

“And then we were competitors,” he continued. “The personal computers I worked on had a vastly higher [market] share than Apple until really the last five or six years, where Steve’s very good work on the Mac and on iPhones and iPads did extremely well. It’s quite an achievement, and we enjoyed each [other’s work]….He spent a lot of his time competing with me. There are lots of times when Steve said [critical] things about me. If you took the more harsh examples, you could get quite a litany.”


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Following the emergence of a series of images with Windows 8 Build 8158 only yesterday, some screenshots of Windows 8 Build 8165 are also available, showing a bit more progress in the development of the platform.

Available courtesy of Winunleaked, the new images are accompanied by a series of details on some of the customization options that Microsoft plans for the Windows 8 Start Screen.

Apparently, the company plans on offering users the possibility to resize the Windows 8 tiles, and this would be possible in this new winmain build that was compiled at the beginning of December.

Moreover, the news site claims that Microsoft has performed a series of improvements to the manner in which the mouse control works in Windows 8.

Mouse gestures work nicely in the new platform release, and Microsoft also offers users the possibility to resize tiles on the Start Screen (using fingers on touchscreens, but the option should be available for those using a mouse as well).

These features, along with others more, should be available in the beta release of Windows 8, which might be pushed to the public sometime in the first quarter of the next year.

Windows 8 beta should arrive with a series of other visual changes when compared to the currently available Developer Preview, as well as with various changes under the hood.

The aforementioned Windows 8 Build 8158 screenshots showed a slightly modified Charms Bar and re-located date and time, as well as working App Store.

Windows 8 was also suggested to come with a Storage Spaces option, meant to ensure increased reliability when it comes to stored data, as well as to lose the popular Control Panel in favor of PC Settings, as can be seen in the image above too.

Additional details on the storefront should be unveiled as soon as today, but info on other changes that the platform will sport from the Developer Preview will be available only next year, most probably at CES in January.


Source: Softpedia.com

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Grand Theft Auto V is finally official, as Rockstar Games, its developer and publisher, has put a massive splash screen on its website with the logo of the upcoming title.

The Grand Theft Auto series is definitely one of the most popular franchises in gaming and Rockstar more than knows this, opting to create hype around the next installment by just publishing its logo and letting the legions of fans freak out until the actual trailer for the game is released.

As such, when you try to access any sort of Rockstar webpage, you're greeted with the massive logo, which you can enjoy above and an inscription that says a trailer for GTA V should appear on November 2, this year.

Besides the logo and the trailer date, however, it's anybody's guess what the new game will actually include or portray, despite earlier rumors from casting calls and website domain registrations.

Expect more details about Grand Theft Auto V soon.


Source: Softpedia.com

Hey Guys,

Yes i know its me again. Once again having Power Problems with my PC. I already changed the PSU to a Thermaltake Litepower 600W and it works well for like 2 Months? but 2 Days ago my PC shuts down unexpectedly after a few hours of powered on. The shutdown event was not a immediate one (More like putting the PC in Sleep Mode). I inspected the PC for a day and turning it on and checking if the problem still persist. It does. but today I try to turn on the PC and it only turns on for 1 Second and turns off and when I press the power button again it won't turn on anymore. I needed to remove the Cable and turn off the AVR first for it to power up but still giving that 1 Second.

Now I don't think it is the PSU problem but its a possibility right? I never really bothered with PSUs so I don't know. Its just a new PSU for a couple of months. I checked the inside of the PC and found no explosion like the last problem I have. I even removed the GPU as it might be the problem but that did not work aswell...