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1. 
   Review - foobar2000

   1.0 Beta 1 (Nov 20, 2009)

   Great application, sadly let down by the forum support (IMHO) and for which it loses 1 point.
   
   Support should be just that. What it shouldn't be is being ignored for days after asking a question and then jumped on and having software you don't even use blamed for the problem you're experiencing. Again just MHO.
   
   Anyway, rant over. Enjoy ;)

2. 
   Review - Foxit Reader

   3.1.0.0824 (Aug 24, 2009)

   Nice little app that I've been using for ~3 years now. No installer required, just run the exe. Does what it says on the tin, and no crap bloatware like Adobe.
   
   Never liked the Pointless Document Format anyway, but if I absolutely have to use it, Foxit scores a win here.
   
   5/5 from me

3. 
   Review - OpenOffice.org for Windows

   3.1.0 RC1 (Apr 6, 2009)

   While OOo is a nice product for basic usage (I only really use the Writer component regularly, and occasionally Calc), I find it fails quite badly when trying to work with more complicated Word documents.
   
   For example, I downloaded an application form for a job which had various tables and tickboxes. Not only did OOo not display the page correctly, it also made some of the boxes untickable and worse still, after saving the document, it lost a whole load of free text that had been typed by me. If you opened the saved document in Notepad or Wordpad, you could see that the text was actually there, but for whatever reason OOo refused to display it again.
   
   Now there may well be settings somewhere hidden in the options that make all these things work, but after searching high and low and failing to find them, combined with the fact that they work 'out of the box' in MS Word, it makes it exremely difficult to give up using the commercial product.

4. 
   Review - Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v2)

   2.0.0.7 (Sep 18, 2007)

   However, forget Internet Explorer. Its crap and it sucks.

   
   
   That is your opinion, and nothing more. Internet Explorer does NOT suck as you so succintly put it, and I wish people would stop saying Firfox rocks and IE sucks.
   
   I personally don't like Firefox. Not because it *sucks*, nor because it's utterly overhyped. It doesn't float my boat and from the tests I've done with it, it's slower than IE.
   
   Sure, it has a few nice points. A few of the extensions mentioned make it nicer for browsing (like Adblock), but I can get the same with IE7Pro.
   
   For those of you that love it, great. Just don't keep slamming a bit of software just because it doesn't have a million different (and largely pointless) extensions, and because it's made by Microsoft.

5. 
   Review - Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows XP

   7.0 Final (Oct 19, 2006)

   For Floske Tuf
   
   "The menu bar has gone (a pity) but can be forced to appear by means of the alt-key on the keyboard."
   
   You can have it there permanently too. Right click on the toolbar and enable the cunningly named 'Menu Bar'
   
   Et voila!

6. Comment - BBC, Microsoft Sign Strategic Alliance

   7.0 Final (Sep 29, 2006 - 6:50 AM)

   "For £12 a month we get a corporation which delivers as close to impartial news as possible. Perhaps you don't know how bad the television media is in other Western countries. Do you really want a Fox News in the UK?"
   
   No, I want a *choice* of whether I watch the BBC or not. I find very little of interest to watch on any of their channels, and fail to see why I should be FORCED to subscribe to something I don't watch! Believe it or not, not everybody likes Eastenders/constant repeats of old shows/housebuying programs/insert other drivel here.
   
   If you like it, fine. You pay for it. Owning a TV or VCR should not mean I have to buy a licence for the BBC, whos content I don't watch or listen to.

7. Comment - BBC, Microsoft Sign Strategic Alliance

   7.0 Final (Sep 29, 2006 - 4:18 AM)

   "By "license payers," Thompson is referring to viewers who, in the world of British television, pay licensing fees for the right to receive BBC content."
   
   Not like we have a choice. If you have a TV, or a VCR, you are required BY LAW to have a TV licence ... just so you can watch endless repeats and rubbish soap operas.
   
   "Thompson's reference to "license payers" is perhaps the most telling clue we have with regard to the BBC's plans, which may involve extending end-user licenses to Internet-based content."
   
   And I'm sure our TV licence fee will be raised to cover this fantastic new content. Yet more opportunities to be ripped off for content 1/2 the UK isn't interested in.

8. Comment - IE7 Progressing With CSS, PNG Fixes

   7.0 Final (Apr 26, 2005 - 6:36 AM)

   If memory serves, IE7 will only work on XP SP2 and above, so no Win2k support.

9. Comment - Microsoft Lists SP2 Incompatibilities

   7.0 Final (Aug 17, 2004 - 10:48 AM)

   Nero Bruning ROM
   Bakcup Exec 9.1
   Norman Personla Firewall
   Encarta Enzyklopädie (may well be just a localised spelling .... I hope!)
   VisursScan
   1st nd Grade Excelerator Curious George Studio 1
   
   I guess that explains which part of the Office system is broken .... the spellchecker :)