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1. Apple iTunes for Windows
2. DAEMON Tools Lite
3. MSN Messenger for Windows
4. Nero
5. Windows Media Player for Windows XP (32-bit)

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - Vuze for Windows

   3.0 Beta (Dec 4, 2006)

   This is NOT Azureus, this is Zudeo which is _powered_ by Azureus 3.0. That is, it's the HD video filesharing frontend that uses Azureus 3.0 in the background for the streaming.

2. Comment - Firefox's latest firestorm: Should the Web be made of codecs?

   3.0 Beta (Jan 27, 2010 - 12:56 AM)

   The reason why choice may NOT be good for video is the complications. You could fall back to system players, but then you're back to the .AVI problem...users will need to acquire the codecs somehow. Then there will be new codecs...and incompatible codecs...then buggy codecs with green screens and macroblocking, etc. Video is far, far more complex than images/audio/fonts...standardizing on an HTML codec is simpler for everyone.
   
   All the standards define is the MINIMUM codec support, not ALL codec support. Google, Apple, etc can still include h264. The problem is they're not supporting Theora either. We need the HTML spec to standardize a baseline, guaranteed-to-work, completely-free video.

3. Comment - A case study in improving software: What Office 2010 can learn from Notion 3

   3.0 Beta (Nov 25, 2009 - 1:43 PM)

   Rewriting Office from the ground-up is a sure fire why to ensure no large enterprises buy the software. It'd be revenue suicide.
   
   Most companies have extensive Office document libraries and scripts that work with them that depend on exact functionality already in Office. The "ground-up rewrite" perspective would scare off virtually every potential corporate customer, because it's code for "there will be teething pains, there will be missing features, there will be changed behaviour, and you will suffer".
   
   A horrid idea.

4. Comment - PS3, Xbox to soon get Twitter, Facebook integration

   3.0 Beta (Nov 13, 2009 - 2:18 PM)

   The PS3 can, but its browser stinks.
   The 360 has no browser.
   
   It's news because apparently not everyone knows about the capabilities of these machines. ;)

5. Comment - Verizon Wireless launches new Android, Chocolate, and ruggedized phones

   3.0 Beta (Nov 6, 2009 - 12:13 PM)

   Motorola actually licensed Droid from lucasfilm, it's in the fine print on the commercials.

6. Comment - Performance drain: The first public perception test of the Windows 7 era

   3.0 Beta (Nov 4, 2009 - 1:53 PM)

   It's good that you use all of those browsers, but that's inconsequential. This is a Beta News site, I've been a loyal reader since its inception but Scott is wasting all of his time running these inane benchmarks constantly and writing endless articles on them. I also enjoy reading about fast cars that can do 0-60 in 5 secs, but taking those cars out on the test course and writing about the nanosecond difference in each test run depending on what the driver ate is an absurd exercise.
   
   I have to use all of the browsers because I'm a developer, but if you do care about performance and you do use IE, you do need to have your head examined.
   
   As for your last line, if you find a thread you disagree with or does not interest you, don't read it and most certainly never, ever post on it. It's quite clear all you're doing here is posting borderline hostile comments to people who disagree with you.