So long Vista, we hardly knew ye. According to Techarp, Microsoft will be working with PC makers to offer a cheap and easy upgrade path for people who buy Vista machines after July 1st.

A similar program was initiated just before the transition from XP to Vista to prevent a slowdown in sales, so it looks like the mid-2009 target for WIndows 7 is still on track. [Techarp via Sillcon Alley Insider]

Were you hoping to spend the day glued to your iPhone or BlackBerry, keeping an eye on our live Macworld coverage while in the office? If you’ve got AT&T on the East Coast, you’d better make sure your wireless data connection is operational. Just like in September we’re getting a number of tips from people on the right side reporting outages and error messages when attempting to connect.

Here’s the humorous David Pogue singing about a world without Apple in a way that only, well, David Pogue could pull off.

It’s a decidedly critical take on Apple, the people who love the company, and technology in general, which many of you would argue includes Pogue himself.

Here’s the humorous David Pogue singing about a world without Apple in a way that only, well, David Pogue could pull off.

It’s a decidedly critical take on Apple and the people who love the company, which many of you might argue includes Pogue himself.

The SkiGym simulator looks like it’s going for realism rather than the silly fun offered by the Wii, but some people probably want an accurate depiction of brief exhilaration before the inevitable faceplant.

The SkiGym hooks up to a PC to use the included game Alpine Ski Racing, or it can be used as a standalone gym.

Knowing that it is very hard that Apple would ever release an iPhone Pro with physical keyboard, Mat Brady from planetmat has sent me another image of a potential accessory. It looks great.

Mat says that he created the accessory answering readers’ feedback on sliding keyboards.

The slide-out keyboard has generated the most response from any of my suggested features.

Anythingbutipod and Ihaveazune have done some research and have discovered that the 30GB Zune failing bug also affects its twin brother, the Toshiba Gigabeat S. According to them, the culprit is the power management circuit.

The fiend is Freescale’s MC13783 PMIC—chips used to regulate and control power—which is used in the the Gigabeat S Series.

Google has figured out that it can save money by getting product ideas from users rather than engineers. After all, you can’t pay engineers in “shout outs” on their blogs like their offering for users.

Yes, the tanking economy is hitting the mighty Google just as hard as every other company out there, and they’re having to cut costs as a result.

I don’t understand drinking decaf coffee. It’s like non-alcoholic beer. Both are crappy, neutered versions of the original. But if you’ve absolutely got to drink decaf, D+caf will make sure it’s the real (fake) deal.

D+caf test strips are simply little strips of paper coated with antibodies that tell if you a beverage is properly decaffeinated, turning up blue lines if it’s got more than 20mg of caffeine per 6oz serving.