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The Register has written an interesting piece about Napsters 2 day old initiative where they continue to innovate and bring such great features to their users such as the ability to actually take your Napster music with you on a portable device! What will they think of next? (circia 1998). Ironically, this weekend we'll all be tuning into Superbowl Sunday - if only to check out the commercials and in addition to the 2 new (and quite lame IMO) Pepsi/iTunes commercials (care to guess which company's ad agency did the spot? - Not Apples) - Napster is set to unveil their new 6 month advertising campaign. Oh yea, you can now take it with you, but it's still the worlds most restrictive format, WMA and if you forget or decide to stop your napster subscription, no more music for you! It all just stops working, regardless of how long you've been paying for it.

Why Does Windows Still Suck?

I was having this identical conversation with a rather insightful co-worker just yesterday (who happens to still be a Windows user at this particular time) but he was asking why is that now Windows is getting absolutely hammered with bad press about it's security, viruses, adware, spyware, etc yet so few people actually take the initiative to make a switch. Looks like the SF Gate was wondering just the same thing...

SF Gate's Mark Morford asks: Why Does Windows Still Suck? After wtaching his significant other's Windows PC drown in a sea of viruses and worms after only 4 minutes on her new DSL connection, Mark Morford wonders why the masses have not stormed Redmond waving torches and scythes in anger over the never-ending security flaws in Windows. Why haven't they jetisoned the foul beast from Redmond and migrated en mass to the Macintosh or even Linux

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Linux in a World Where Windows 3.0 Never Happened

Larry Osterman said farewell yesterday to David Weise, the developer he credits with getting applications to run in protected mode on Windows 3.0, which led directly to Microsoft choosing to push Windows instead of OS/2. Today he speculates on what the IT world would be like if Weise had never completed this work. Windows 95 would never have existed, OS/2 would be the de facto standard, and IBM would never have put weight behind Linux because it had its own operating system to push.