What decryption software? DVD codecs are included in Windows 7 (not in Vista, though).

No, I don't know what loops do you mean. Any regular DVD bought in a store starts automatically after being inserted into a DVD drive - at least with win7.

Thanks to Firefox some users do know what a free software is, but right - they don't get a clue about DRM. Either their movie "just works", or they download a pirated copy

hardware RAID 5 for minimising impact of disk failures. And one external hard drive backup, kept in offsite location. Also, sync the most important data with your laptop, if you have one, so you have kind of two external backup media.

Winamp was a small, great, fast and reliable MP3 player. It was, up to version 2.95. Then they started version 3, which was waaay slower, with new eye candy and crossfader. Nobody actually used it, so they got the UI of version 3, tried to catch up with version 2's speed and reliability and made it Winamp 5 (2+3 = 5).

Right, that's been the case with Intel, where they couldn't stop other companies making their own 486 DX 4 + whatever "extra" marks you could add

I've got Ctrl-Shift-Slash that runs cmd or powershell (depending what's installed) on all computers I use. Come on, there are things you do faster in command line, even in Windows :) To be on topic - as a power user, I try out every new Ubuntu and Windows version that comes out (MacOS doesn't give free versions to run on regular PCs, sorry ;) and I can say Ubuntu is having way less problems with every release. However, with every release, it says one thing to me: there's software for almost all of my needs on both Windows and Linux, both can manage my hardware pretty good, so... why switch? :)

And without the risk that if you enter an unlabelled CD "to check what di you record there 6 months ago", a game installer will popup, consuming a lot of your RAM and time.

I would say these are the new features added in post-beta, not bug fixes.