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1. 
   Review - iTunes for Windows

   7.7.1.11 (Jul 31, 2008)

   Wow here to begin...
   
   - slow as molasses in a Canadian January
   - a DRM nightmare for multiple users / same machine
   - to safe guard those expensive songs do daily backups as ye old iTunes BSOD = what purchases?
   
   I guess the PC and Mac commercials of the future might be iTunes and Winamp. "Hey iTunes, you're making your user buy those songs again? Were they that good?"

2. 
   Review - Spybot - Search & Destroy

   1.6 Release Candidate 2 (Jul 4, 2008)

   Sure its not on Castlecops site of which I see others visit also (been reading security since Lord Oak and The Poisen were breakfast reading) but it has found what both Superantispyware and malwarebytes have themselves missed so none is the malware panacea, oh well... That said it has no problems with either my Nod32 machines nor my Kaspersky so any issues with it in regard to these two would have to be subjective. All in all another stellar bit of work from a well aquainted malware prybar.

3. 
   Review - Spybot - Search & Destroy

   1.5.2.20 (Apr 16, 2008)

   Been using this and others from day 1. Best scanner for a messed up rig next to making yourself a portable Spyware Doctor. Works like a champ in safe mode. If granny can't handle clicking a few buttons once a week to scrape the barnacles off her hull from all that surfing, get her an Etch-A-Sketch.

4. 
   Review - NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor)

   3.5 (Sep 6, 2007)

   The savior of many a heat damaged 6800GT.

5. Comment - Apple: 'We can't build a great $399 computer'

   3.5 (Jul 25, 2009 - 11:56 AM)

   Shhhh! The informed haven't really caught on to that one yet. They still think the magic is in the sticker.

6. Comment - Is 'XP Mode' in Windows 7 something you'd want to use?

   3.5 (May 9, 2009 - 9:53 AM)

   If it means compatibility with the software many of the business' I deal with generate substantial wealth with each day, without a doubt its a very good thing and puts a Windows 7 upgrade path on the table.

7. Comment - Windows 7 to include 'XP mode' virtualization

   3.5 (May 3, 2009 - 6:43 PM)

   @DotNet_Coder: "It's people that complain about wanting to use their aging systems that derail future advancements".
   
   Idiocy. Vista didn't work with way too much software that indeed created wealth for their owners and was an integral part of their business model. There isn't a business out there making use of personalized software systems willing to accept downtime just to say they run the latest in a crashware OS. As a business decision, that earns you the door.

8. Comment - News Corp. has an 'other' problem

   3.5 (Feb 8, 2009 - 10:33 AM)

   Calm down liberals. Time you're wasting here could be spent saving something elsewhere.

9. Comment - Tech firms battle US job protection laws while importing workers

   3.5 (Feb 8, 2009 - 10:21 AM)

   What a load of crap. The idea was to be using a nonunion work force that speaks (for the most part) English. Some of the best code writers I know speak their own Russian very well and English like a 3 year old with downs syndrome. They have mad skills and make a crap wage in their own country but not speaking decent amounts of English isn't a liability there. Microsoft has never darkened their doors save for those times when its a cease and desist order for making changes to the kernel in support of proprietary software which MS said couldn't possibly be done. I guess at times "the best" are also the incapable.
   
   Microsoft has made boatloads of cash by keeping Joe-jobs offshore. If they're pulling in a home grown Brainiac they either need him/her or want him/her off the market. On a shelf in your organization also means they are not going to be used against you. Not everyone is a corporate simpleton DaEagle. While you're at it you might as well laud all the others for their sparse use of the American work force too. Bottom line is you're making how much less with operational costs of 1200% more per man hour? Anyone using purely American workers is either a permanent attachment to the government teat or heavily leveraged by other portions of the labor being offshore. There is no middle ground here. Besides there is only a market for that $100 unionist toaster when there's no other choice allowed. If MS were not doing such and wanted to keep the profit margins as they have been, imagine the actual cost of developing, packaging and warehousing the MS product line.
   
   The only thing any of these companies can say for themselves is Capitalism. The corporate entity itself is who comes first and through that the shareholders. The Socialist model on the other hand wants to make these products a break even for the masses by placing the cost differential on the shoulders of business which is why under those conditions the shareholder has to be the government who can do without seeing a profit from their investment. They have the ability to just go get more from the tax payer when deemed necessary.
   
   Change you can count on. Protectionists being unionists or being greased by such.