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I would support the change to windows live mail. i type in hotmail.com to access my email, and because i'm in the live mail beta, i'm already used to the new interface. might as well keep it...
as an xbox 360 owner with a gold subscription, i may be a little biased, but i'll still say that this is good for the pc gaming community. newer games and support for the pc has been dwindling in favour of consoles, and microsoft is starting to bring it back with this unified platform. plus, now that we have cross-platform competition, we'll really see who's better: pc gamers or console gamers.
Frustrating but true.
Valve has added in-game advertising to Counter-Strike 1.6. They can be seen in default maps (AFAIK dust and dust2 so far) and on the scoreboard and spectator modes.
Currently, most ads are for Valve-related games but Intel has jumped into the action with ads for Core 2 Extreme processors.
Some people have noticed lag upon spawning, where the game contacts the adservers to update the ads and display new ones.
Have you seen them? What is your take on implementing advertising on games long after their release?
i hope ati's dx10 solution is as good as or better than nvidia's, at least at first. nvidia seems to be taking a bit of a lead here in the graphics card race
a lot of consumers are apprehensive of launch bugs associated with typical windows releases. they have 'learned' this time, and i'd be willing to bet most of the people who haven't bought yet will...just not yet.