Until a non-beat version of IE9 becomes the defacto MS browser, then we'll hear people say....

"I will be so happy when IE8 finally eats flaming death"

As the MS software cycle continues and nobody learns from the previous round.
Corporations are starting to become OS-Agnostic for their web apps. Those who
have not done so eventually will follow suit.

The gold diggers are circling.....

It translates into, "it's my right to be able to profit from someone else's product"...

AV Vendors please go back to the windows desktop PC where you came from.

Like at band camp!? (re: american pie2)

It will be restricted use only to devices which are licensed to
Squirt....

It's a way to generate kickbacks from all of the future carpel-tunnel surgeries
from the users who try to gesture instead of using a keyboard to enter text
into this device.

I use DeployStudio for my mac rollouts. I had one of the Apple engineers
from Apple Canada visit my site and he showed it to me. It was exactly
what we were looking for. It runs over NFS on one of my Xserve servers.
It is fantastic.

http://www.deploystudio.com/Home.html

It works very well and can image the new machines very quickly, even
in times where only a 100mb connection is available.

I highly recommend it to you.

Cheers,

Brought to you by the same people that DRM'd your PC's video card(a 'la Vista).

It will be short lived because the market is already saturated with
dozens of different media players which are either more
user friendly, cheaper, have more supported media types, and are just
better designed products.... and then there is the ZUNE.

MS wants too much to compete in a market that they have already
failed in.

The sales of MS OFFICE can't sustain funding to a media player
whose primary feature is and HD FM tuner. Radio broadcasts are
their motivation here!

Anyone can go to any retailer, hardware store, or even a grocery
store and buy a portable $10 FM radio to listen to radio broadcasts.
HD FM isn't available everywhere, so it is targeted at a small
demographic.

After the MS fanboys have bought one new Zune each, the wave will be
over. The leader will still be Apple iPods, and the various cheap,
but versatile Sony and Sandisk MP3 players.

MS is probably pondering the ways to sell all of the exploits in XP/2K to the worlds hackers to ensure that everyone upgrades to Win7.

"Windows 7's barely out and you've forgotten Vista already!"

That's what MS is hoping for!

And the Windows Fanboys will have a new horse to beat on for a while. Should be
an entertaining holiday season with the follow up of returned Win7 PC's around
boxing day.

Put a hardware firewall in front of your Windows PC's and problem solved.
Win7 won't be bullet proof. MS still doesn't understand what the term "security"
actually means.

Changing things for the sake of changing things keeps their handful of investors
from selling off their shares, hense making Microsoft happy that they held onto
those shares.

The fact that there are users who must face the challenges of using Microsoft
Office in its various forms is inconsequential. It is all about the overvalued shares.

"It is good enough", is in fact good enough to keep them in business.

And he'll find a way to demand ridiculous payment from all of you while
he's at it.

Just another stab at charging for something that can't be done. But he
will convince you that you need it.

It's proof that nobody can avoid senility.

For the good of the computer industry, I hope that more people think in the same
manner that you do. Then this will show that the $10 jump in MS Stock price
was due to investors talking up Windows7's actual value. Time will tell all.

The $29 Snow-Leopard upgrade is more appealing, and reputable.

MS's day in the sun is waning. MS should step aside and let someone else
have the opportunity to take the people's money for the next decade or more.

Pot meet Kettle.

MS should rethink their strategy since the Oracle->Sun buyout.

It's all downhill from here.

MS has a $16billion dollar mistake to sell to you.