When Microsoft launched Windows Server Home, the new moved silently in the market. Dedicated servers “family”, the system does not in fact a specific request as we can see ships, but could create its own audience by concentrating the digital life of an entire family.

A few months after its launch, a problem boring appeared in one of the major features of the system. Windows Server Home makes it possible to aggregate more than one hard drive and bring up the total as a single entity, removing the requirement to switch to appoint disks with letters. Technology Drive Extender is responsible for managing and guiding the disk access in the future.

This technology uses a driver that actually causes the problem. In some cases, data corruptions have been reported, and Microsoft had announced work on the problem. Now that the cause has been found, the publisher announced that an update will be available in June to correct this concern embarrassing.

Although still wait three months to be rid of the problem, Microsoft is currently testing a beta version of the patch. It modifies the operation of the system at a low level, which explains the time necessary.

Guitar manufacturer Gisbon Guitar has now added six major retailers to its lawsuit against Activision’s Guitar Hero. The stores are Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target, Gamestop, Toys-R-Us and Amazon.

The decision to add them to the lawsuit was made “reluctantly”, according to a statement released by the manufacturer.

The latest move, which was filed on Monday, has been criticized by Activision.

“Our Guitar Hero retailing partners have done nothing wrong,” it said in a statement. “We will confront this and any other efforts by Gibson to wrongfully interfere with Activision’s relationship with its customers and its consumers.”

The lawsuit was launched earlier this month as Gisbon claims that it violates a 1999 patent for a “virtual-reality guitar-playing device” that could “simulate(s) participation in a concert by playing a musical instrument and wearing a head-mounted 3-D display that includes stereo speakers.” The copy of this patent was included in its original lawsuit - and it is indeed dated on November 23, 1999.

Activision filed for declaratory relief on March 11, claiming that the lawsuit came after the game publisher terminated a marketing deal with the guitar manufacturer. In the filing, it says that Gisbon “waited three years to make its patent allegations” and only started the lawsuit after it was not interested in renewing the current “marketing and support agreement”.

It also says that Gisbon’s claims were disingenuous and lack any justification.

The lawsuit brings 10 defendants to lawsuit; with MTV Networks, Electronics Arts and Harmonix being added to the list with the six retailers and Activision today. All three are involved with the game “Rock Band”, which is based on “Guitar Hero”, but also includes vocal, bass guitar and drums into the gameplay.

Representatives for all three companies that have been recently added have declined to comment. Harmonix created and developed some of the games in the “Guitar Hero” franchise.

Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock has been released in Australia, but the hybrid disc for Mac and PC has been delayed; with Rock Band coming out in Q2 2008.

Boing Boing is reporting that Slysoft, the makers of the famous DVD-copying software AnyDVD HD, has managed to crack the new anti-copying system used on Blu-Ray disks.

Known as BD+, it was thought to be uncrackable and was one of the reasons cited by many pundits for its victory over HD-DVD in the format wars. BD+ allowed the movie studios to include applications on the disks with some can downgrade or not play parts of the disk.

“Admittedly, we are not really so fast with this because actually we had intended to publish this release already in December as promised. However, it was decided for strategic reasons to wait a bit for the outcome of the “format war” between HD DVD and Blu-ray. On top of
that, we first wanted to see our assumptions confirmed about the in the meantime released BD+ titles regarding the BD+ Virtual Machine. We are rather proud to have brought back to earth the highly-praised and previously “unbreakable” BD+. However, we must also admit that the Blu-ray titles released up to now have not fully exploited the possibilities of BD+,” Peer van Heuen, the head of High-Definition technologies, said in a press release.

“Future releases will undoubtedly have a modified and more polished BD+ protection, but we are well prepared for this and await the coming developments rather relaxed.”

Now that Vista SP1 is out of the way (but creating more havoc), all eyes have now moved on to the new service pack for Windows XP, SP3. This will be, according to Neowin, the last package of updates for the popular operating system.

One source inside Microsoft is saying that it will roll out the service pack next Monday.

However, the BitTorrent search engine Mininova has listed a 568.73 MB file that is supposed to be a “Windows XP Professional SP3 5503″ file. It has 112 seeds and 417 leeches, at time of writing, and has been downloaded by 2083 users since it’s listing on Tuesday.

In the description notes, Microsoft will release it on March 24; but according to Neowin, the 5503 passed all WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) checks and was able to download updates that previous SP3 builds could not.

A Microsoft spokesperson has decline to comment

Just days after it was released, Vista SP1 has created more problems for more users of the successor of Windows XP, which came out in 2001.

Users are finding that it is suffering from speed and compatibility issues, even Microsoft executives are complaining about it after emails were made public during a US court case about it’s “Vista Capable” guide.

The service pack was to improve the performance and security of the expensive and plagued operating system, but eventually did the opposite, creating more headaches - to the already added headaches of Vista.

Technology websites are showing users hatred of the latest service pack, with some could not install the update at all.

The SP1 website has said that it would not work if the computer uses some devices by Intel, Symantec or RealTek AC. It also tells them
they have to resolve these issues before they upgrade.

It is also not compatible with certain applications, mostly security applications like ZoneAlarm Security Suite and BitDefender Antivirus.

But those who installed the update noticed only minor improvements in speed; with the Extreme Tech website testing it on the graphic-intensive game Crysis, and ntoing that it was slightly faster than XP but fell behind XP if it was on a high-resoultion setup.

Team member Brandon LeBlanc has issued an apology on the Windows Vista Team Blog.

“I apologize to all who are experiencing issues with Windows Vista SP1,” he wrote.

Qantas has announced that it will introduce internet services to its fleet of domestic aircrafts, but will be currently limited to a couple of domestic Boeing 767 and the Airbus A330.

However, there is a catch; it is not wi-fi. It will be done via a mobile phone “mini-base station” that will provide GPRS and SMS access for Blackberries and smartphones (and your 3G phone, if you know how to make it act like a modem). However; you will need, according to Qantas, a roaming account for your SIM card.

Qantas will be using AeroMobile’s technology to allow this service to work as the company is known to have mobile phones and portable devices work without interfering with the aircraft systems or the communication network from the ground.

Voice calls can be supported by the technology offered, but Qantas has not opted for it.

It has been under an evaluation period on some Boeing 767 flights between April 2007 and January 2008 and had called it a great success.

“The evaluation of this new technology was a great success,” John Borghetti, Executive General Manager, told APC.

“An overwhelming majority of passengers involved in the evaluation indicated they wanted access to inflight connectivity on an ongoing basis.”

However, since it does need a roaming SIM card; expect the service to be costly. This service does run on the mobile telephone network to allow you to connect to the internet and it will rack up thousands of dollars if you try to download a heavy file from your HSPDA-connected laptop.