Also remember that iPod sales didn't begin to explode until after Apple released the Windows compatible iTunes. Sure, MusicMatch would work in 2002, but it has hacked together at best and not many people knew about it.

The 3rd gen (late April 2003) came with Windows compatible iTunes. It was the 4th gen in Oct 2004 that really began to pick up.

So the iPod for those 2 years was only officially compatible with Mac (5-8% market share depending on where you get your stats). Limiting yourself to within that market share isn't a very good idea.

There wouldn't be any name change for Microsoft - the brand is far too valuable. Adobe would cease to exist; or rather they would become a subsidiary and only funnel money to Microsoft.

They have very few competing products, which is great for the customers of both. There would be far more integration, very little product loss.

It would be great to see Flash take on some of Silverlight's power and ease of development. Combining the best of the two would create a very worthy foe. Coldfusion has long had a few features that ASP should have had. FrameMaker could lend a hand to Word, and Visio could become an addin to FrameMaker...as all three are used very much when writing technical books.

After the scare Adobe received earlier this year at the hands of Apple, Adobe must realize at any time Apple holds the power in their relationship. Although Adobe is responsible for Apple's early dominance in the graphic and motion industry, Apple no longer needs them. In terms of sales, Adobe has always made most of their money supporting Microsoft's operating system.

Lately both companies have seen innovation only in the form of acquisitions of smaller, more nimble companies. Whatever they choose, they need to do it before the slide starts.

How did you get my Memo?

How long before Julian Assange is proven (through his Facebook account) to have been at a McDonald's in Seattle when the alleged assault took place?

I *knew* it.

Windows has more lines of code than the human brain.

The postville refresh is supposed to be halogen-free, 25nm (current 34nm), 32mb buffer, "enhanced" NCQ, and a power safe write cache, as well as a slight boost in write performance.

I would like to see if the controller has improved the small random read/write operations, even though Intel drives already do a great job.

Monday.

Apple needs to hire both right AND left handed antenna engineers and testers for the iphone 5.

This is slashdot, in the 12 years I've been wasting time here, I am more surprised when they get a story with all of the facts, spelling and concepts correct!

A simple video to explain perpendicular recording!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb_PyKuI7II

They said that 20 years ago about today. Failure is what pushes people to upgrade...if they made computers that didn't break or fail, what would happen to all the technicians? Same with cars that don't break. It's a question of cost, and they don't even do that now when RAID and backups are relatively cheap.

Or Pigeons with SD cards on their legs.

The platform should be more accurately described as Windows and MS SQL.

IIS has nothing to do with it - other than IIS and MS SQL are commonly used together. The attack works on ANY website that utilizes MS SQL as a database. Since many smaller websites have both the web server and database server on the same machine, they use IIS and MS SQL. This will also work if you have Linux/Apache as your web server and a separate server with Windows/MS SQL for your database. It will also work if you have Windows/Apache/MS SQL on the same server.

The tight integration between MS SQL, LINQ, ASP and IIS make that entire platform desirable to have together.

Think of the cyberfallout! Cybercancer, cyberbirthdefects...we better sink some cybermoney into our cyberdefences!

Microsoft Dynamics GP used to be Great Plains Software. It was purchased by Microsoft in 2001.

The security is a relic of the program originally created by Great Plains Software. Although Microsoft should have fixed this, it was never Microsoft's idea in the first place.

MS is working on integrating GP with Active Directory.

I'm all for MS Bashing, but seriously...

Who do people blame for Flash? Adobe...but it was Macromedia (or SmartSketch if you want to go way back) that unleashed the plague upon the human race...