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Tweet Facebook is sponsoring an Open Compute Foundation contest with Purdue to develop a more sustainable server chassis. The goal of the contest is to build a biodegradable box — instead of steel casing — to hold the innards of a server. Since most companies replace their servers every two to three years (the Purdue contest site says four), why not make the case out of something that doesn’t need to be…

Tweet Office Max’s Black Friday 2012 ad reveals that it will sell the boxed upgrade copy of Windows 8 Pro for just $ 29.99 on that major shopping day, but there’s a big catch. Read more… Neowin

Tweet HP has posted word that it won’t offer official Windows 7 support for any consumer-based PCs that are sold with Windows 8 installed that are later downgraded by the user to Windows 7. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Apple’s Siri works pretty well as a personal assistant but it’s not equipped to be your virtual travel guide. But Desti which, like Siri, is a spin out from SRI International, is launching today in public beta and is looking to take on that job for consumers. Desti, which is debuting as an iPad app, offers users the ability to pose travel questions and get back specific recommendations on…

Tweet Microsoft has announced it sold 270,000 units of its Xbox 360 game console in October 2012 in the US, but overall retail game sales in the US went down 25 percent that month. Read more… Neowin