In this case they're "pushing them" indirectly by ignoring the proprietary ones.
"One", not "ones". They support AAC, they support Exchange, they support Microsoft document formats. All proprietary techniques that don't compete with Apple are welcome. If Apple had a non-proprietary agenda, iPods would play OggVorbis instead of audible files. But they don't.
And iPod and iPhone have plenty ressources for Flash.
Scientists think they have discovered the energy source of auroras borealis, the spectacular color displays seen in the upper latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.
Scientists hope the satellites will record a geomagnetic storm next year and end the debate about when the storms are triggered.
Computerworld's Scot Finnie says the episode proves how out-of-touch Microsoft has become with loyal users — and draws a parallel with IBM in the early 1980s."Michael Cherry, an analyst at Kirkland, Wash.-based Directions on Microsoft, took the company to task over the snafu. "Despite the fact that Microsoft has rolled out WGA slowly and methodically to ensure they have the capacity, availability and reliability to handle customer validation requests, it appears that any plans they had to handle a service problem are not adequate. "Why don't they have a workable fail-over strategy for this service? What does this say about the resiliency of Microsoft's services? After all, there will be failures," he added.
Your files are now being encrypted and thrown into the bit bucket. EOF
