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Microsoft gives USB keys away

(Wednesday, March 1st, 2006)

Right! If you go to the web site of the Redmond company and you ask for information about the Microsoft licenses, they will offer to send you a USB key containing all the needed information.

This is certianly not a 1GB USB drive, but nothing will stop you from formatting the USB key once you read the provided files.

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New technologies: Updated availability schedule

(Wednesday, March 1st, 2006)

If we look quickly, here are a few of the significant availability dates for some important technologies for PC computers around us:

Windows Vista: awaited for the first week of October
HD-DVD: announced for March 2006, but probably without write capacity (because DRM will not be implemented yet)
Blu-Ray DVD: announced for May 2006 at Sony, without DRM.
Panasonic, Toshiba and Sony announced their HD-DVD and Blu-Ray DVD equiped with AACS (it will limit the ability to copy files and medias) from the beginning of Summer.
Apple launches it first Intel-based Mac Mini, but availability is not known (probably before Summer, maybe in May).

There are many technologies that seem to limit the availability (without copy-protection systems, the high-performance or high-capacity DVDs will probably not be allowed to write to media). the 1 billion dollar question is whether or not consumers will be lured into new features and added capacity.

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