Found this in the “Lost” section of the London’s “Evening Standard” newspaper. Congratulations Paul Price from Nottingham (by the way, he’s 19… bless!)

Well, being the good folk that we are… we’re prepared to tell you. However, if you don’t want to know… then just don’t do the following. RSS readers, you might see the text below - sorry in advance.

Just highlight the text from the end of this sentance to the bottom of the post and you’ll see the main pointers!

• Bellatrix Lestrange kills Ron as he tries to kill her, but Ron has weakened her enough that Neville can kill her.
• Snape and Dumbledore were in a plan together to kill Voldermort. The plan involved Dumbledore’s death.
• However, Snape was in it for his own gain, so Snape gets killed by Voldermort.
• In the end, Harry and Hermione live.. and Ron obviously dies.
• 8 years later we find out that Harry and Ginny are sleeping together, and have kids.
• 19 years later their kids are worried about which class they get into (in this case, they want to avoid Slytherin).
• Hermione’s love life in the end is unknown - she’s a useless healer person
• Harry is basically a freelance auror because he doesn’t want to work for the Ministry of Magic.

These came from Bryant at AeroXP via me on Windows Live Messenger- any inaccuracies, blame him, not us! Enjoy!

Channel 8 is the next best thing to come from Microsoft Communities, designed for students, by students, and for students. It’s hosted on the MSDN website so it’s for students developing and getting their hands knee deep in code and suchlike.

It’s been in the works for some time now but it’s almost ready to kick off. Charles who runs Channel 9 says, “The most important aspect of Channel 8 is the Student, not programming languages. We want to provide a place for technical students to call their home on the web; a place to meet and share ideas with fellow thinkers, and this means Channel 8 will be and provide, in time, many things that matter to students”.

See the splash scren - http://channel8.msdn.com.

A new addition to the Microsoft website, along the lines of security as Microsoft seems to be doing a lot of recently. This new subsection of the website devotes itself to displaying information on current threats and also allowing users to submit their own files which are deemed suspicious.

You can search through a vast encyclopedia of information regarding almost every threat under the sun - it even has up to date information on the latest definition files relating to Windows Defender and Microsoft Forefront Client Security, so everyone can keep their systems up to date whether in x86 or x64. This website’s great, you must check it out.

Go and see the Microsoft Malware Protection Center.

Google has stepped up its efforts to take on Microsoft Office with the $625m (£310m) purchase of web-based security provider Postini. The search engine giant said the deal would allow it to provide more companies with web-based services similar to its Google Apps package. Postini sells encryption and archiving software to more than 35,000 businesses and 10m users across the globe. The deal is expected to be completed by the end of the third quarter.

“With this transaction, we’re reinforcing our commitment to delivering compelling hosted applications to businesses of all sizes,” said Google chairman and chief executive Eric Schmidt. “With the addition of Postini, our apps are not just simple and appealing to users - they can also streamline the complex information security mandates within these organisations.” The acquisition is the third biggest announced by Google after it snapped up DoubleClick for $3.1bn in April and its $1.65bn takeover of YouTube.

Google has been moving closer to directly taking on Microsoft’s Office package of applications with the launch of a number of popular business web services including email, calendars, spreadsheets and word processing. So far its Google Apps service has been adopted by 100,000 business, the firm said.

Just when Microsoft had customers, partners and competitors all believing that it was going to delay the first service pack for Vista — not releasing a first beta of it until just before year-end — the company is set to deliver Beta 1 of Vista SP1 in mid-July.

Word (from various sources who asked not to be named) is Microsoft is gearing up to drop Vista SP1 some time the week of July 16. And despite what Microsoft seemingly led Google, the U.S. Department of Justice and other company watchers to believe, the final version of Vista SP1 is sounding like November 2007.

(November 2007 is also the release-to-manufacturing target for Windows Server 2008, sources say. Microsoft won’t provide an RTM date for Windows Server 2008, other than to say it is still on track to RTM before the end of 2007.)

Source: Bink.nu

PowerBookMedic’s iPhone disassembly guide for all those who might want to transfer their exsisting sim cards over to the iPhone. They waited 13 hours in a line for it?? Not worth it!

And: Will a simcard from an another network work?

Via TechEBlog