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1. 
   Review - Codename: Dashboard

   2.0 Beta 6 (Mar 17, 2006)

   Just to clear some things up: The name is original. It was decided on before Apple or Microsoft had used it. The app was even around before Longhorn's sidebar.
   
   Overall, this is the best sidebar program out for my needs.

2. 
   Review - AOL Instant Messenger for Windows

   0.1.12 Beta (Apr 27, 2005)

   mynameisdougb-- adware does not equal spyware.
   
   This definitely IS adware, since even in the screenshot, you can see an ad, prominently placed. Annoying the crap out of everyone like always.

3. 
   Review - Codename: Dashboard

   2.0 Beta 5 (Jan 29, 2005)

   This has been out long before Apple's Dashboard. It's been out since long before Longhorn screenshots started leaking. It's NOT COPYING ANYTHING.
   
   And great review... giving it a one because it shares a word with a band you hate.
   
   Can we please start rating the software here?
   
   Edited 7-2-05: mountain man, above this review has done it again. The name IS original. It was around before anything was known about longhorn, and years before Apple's Dashboard.

4. 
   Review - KDE Software Compilation

   3.4 Alpha 1 (Dec 13, 2004)

   KDE isn't my personal choice, but it's great.
   
   BlackCherry... yeah ok. Most of your favorite websites are probably running on Linux servers. I don't think I'm cool for not using Microsoft, but I do think I'm safer, faster, more stable, and have more choices. I also don't have to pay ridiculous prices for software that should be 1/3 of the price they charge. I've been running Ubuntu Linux (the development version, not the stable) for a few months now with no major crashes (since I'm running a development release there are going to be issues, but I'm helping to weed out the bugs). That's more than I can say for Windows. Performance-wise, Half-Life 2 through Wine runs better in Linux than native Half-Life 2 in Windows. Opening Firefox in Linux takes about 2 seconds. In Windows, about 6 or 8 seconds. All my hardware gets picked up, I can do everything I need to do. So rakhan, if you're thinking of switching, you should give it a shot. Ubuntu is a great starter distribution, they have great support forums. And don't listen to people like BlackCherry who say nothing productive. If they can only say things like that, they obviously don't know enough about it to make comments like that in the first place.

5. 
   Review - Ubuntu

   4.10 (Nov 17, 2004)

   Just because YOU couldn't get past the install doesn't make it junk. There could be some problem with your hardware, or maybe the ISO you downloaded or the burn process was corrupted. Flat out calling it junk and giving it a 1 when you really don't know what's wrong isn't accomplishing anything.
   
   That said, this is by far the best distribution I've ever seen. Everything just works.

6. Comment - Virtual PC 7 Set for October Release

   4.10 (Jul 23, 2004 - 6:42 PM)

   Yeah when it was Connectix VPC it worked well with everything I could throw at it. Unfortunately, it now only works well with MS operating systems, so one could only assume that they either broke Linux support or took it out entirely. Seriously, you'd think they'd sell more with Linux support than without it.

7. Comment - Microsoft Rethinks Outlook Express Future

   4.10 (Aug 15, 2003 - 3:54 PM)

   OUtlook does have a newsreader. It is just hard to find in the newer versions. In the old ones, it was right there in the start menu, "Outlook 98 newsreader" It was, however, merely outlook express. All it did was open OE with news instead of mail. Kinda lame eh? That's what he meant by Outlook's newsreader being gone

8. Comment - Mozilla to be Replaced by Phoenix, Thunderbird

   4.10 (Apr 8, 2003 - 3:12 AM)

   of course there are bugs in Mozilla, they have only had 3 builds they have called "stable." Since all builds are available to the public, that means that many people will be using very buggy builds. If IE left their alpha and beta builds open to the public, I'd like to see what people's reactions would be. Phoenix is still in VERY early stages so you can't say "never use this crap" like some people have. It will open as fast as a text editor it seems, and so far the page parsing is very fast.
   
   And come on, saying "IE doesn't crash on my computer, so you're all liars for saying that it crashes" is just ridiculous... just because your experience is good on your exact configuration doesn't mean everyone's will be the same, and it DOESN'T mean that they are using a crap OS, it DOESN'T mean that they are novice users... different software configs with different OS's on different hardware reacts differently, ok? Just chill out and stop getting so angry... its good software, and its in development, you have to realize that as well.

9. Comment - Opera Releases Rewritten Version 7

   4.10 (Jan 30, 2003 - 3:00 PM)

   sure, IE is free, but so is Mozilla, and so is Netscape 7, both of which are better than IE. Mozilla's up and coming Phoenix is very promising, and is also free. So there's no reason to use IE just because it is free. Sometimes you have to use IE, like with Windows Update. IE is full of security holes like BHO's. Anyway, I like opera, but it really shouldn't be adware. If they got rid of that, and had maybe a freeware version and a plus version or something it would go over much better I think. But really, what operating system is everyone using here? Next question, did you pay for it? Some will say yes, most will say no. Software piracy is rampant, so if you want this browser without ads its probably not that hard to get around it. I still like Mozilla better.