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Apple, EMI offering DRM-clean music [Apple, EMI offering DRM-clean music]

BryanF — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:28:20 GMT

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17911460/

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Gartner: Antitrust changes in Vista to take years [Gartner: Antitrust changes in Vista to take years]

BryanF — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 23:29:43 GMT

Via CNet.

I know the whole PatchGuard thing has probably been done to death here, but there's a passage in the article outrageous enough that it seemed reviving the topic:

The Article wrote:
"Our goal is to provide an initial set of documented, supported kernel interfaces in the Windows Vista SP1 (Service Pack 1) timeframe, recognizing that this will require collaboration from our industry partners," Ben Fathi, the outgoing corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Security Technology Unit said in a statement late Thursday.

Gartner expects SP1 to be released in early 2008 and predicts that more programming interfaces related to the kernel will be delivered with SP2 or later. All these changes could have a negative effect on Vista, MacDonald wrote.

"Any kernel changes may have a 'ripple effect' up the software stack and will require retesting of all of Windows Vista applications," he wrote.

The last paragraph is the punchline.

I can't understand why anyone gives analysts money... :|

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XNA Studio Express / Build Games for 360! [XNA Studio Express / Build Games for 360!]

BryanF — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 06:37:09 GMT

Details here.

Looking forward to the beta. I'm interested to see what the development platform looks like.

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(Nevermind) [(Nevermind)]

BryanF — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:03:09 GMT

EDIT: Ignore this.

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Live Clipboard [Live Clipboard]

BryanF — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 04:21:13 GMT

[Link to Ray Ozzie's blog on Live Clipboard now dead.]

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Microsoft finally beats Google [Microsoft finally beats Google]

BryanF — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:55:12 GMT

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Holographic Storage [Holographic Storage]

BryanF — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:01:36 GMT

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/80850/holographic-discs-set-for-retail-next-year.html

This probably isn't news to many of you. What I'm interested in is what are your thoughts about this development with respect to the BluRay vs. HD-DVD p*ssing contest? Of course this article leaves a lot of questions unanswered, but supposedly this technology has a better GB/$ value than current optical disk technologies, so it's not too big of a stretch to assume that prices for drives and discs could be driven down to within the reach of non-commercial customers within a reasonable time frame--assuming a high enough volume. Is it even worth bothering with these "next-generation" DVD formats, or would it be better to simply endure the current technology until holographic storage starts to see momentum?

(PS: Can anyone think of a better term for non-commercial customers than "consumers"? I hate that word...)

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