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Bill Gates Swears Vow Against 'Son of iPod'
Future Linux-Guru writes "The LA Times is running an article on Microsoft's efforts to preempt any single manufacturer from dominating the online video market. Among the scarier revelations is the development of AACS, a new already approved security system designed to prevent piracy on HD DVDs, which subjects users to forced upgrades." From the article: "Whichever way it shakes out, Gates vows not to play the victim in 'Son of iPod.' After learning a hard lesson in the digital music business, 'we're really having to work more closely with partners in the hardware industry and content industry, to really think through the whole end-to-end experience and make it better,' Gates said. 'That's where we've done our mea culpa. We are fixing that.'"
So, what's the son of iPod going to be called?
:P
Son of Satan
Online backup with Mozy, sounds like Ozzie, but more!
Tablets are the movie equivalent of iPods. Check them out.
Show me one that won't be infected within ten minutes of connecting to a network, and I might.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Yeah... every time OSS and M$ go head to head in a LEGITIMATE test, M$ loses their billion dollar shirts off their backs.
It would be nice if tomorrow, all of M$ and all of Intel were found missing, no trace of them save one last shipment of shitty DRM hardware platforms running the leftover M$ Windows.
" What luck for rulers that men do not think" - Adolf Hitler
Like Apple would be a different beast than MS. Frankly, Apple's hip offerings don't entice me - as far as looks and ease of usability goes, I'll take Win98SE any day over a recent Mac.