The idea of squirting music is one of those ideas that seem obvious enough once you think about it and to tell you the truth, it sounds really cool. But…without having looked at the patent yet (I will and will post details here later…) it seems obvious that there has to be a DRM mechanism involved.
Microsoft, in case you missed it, DRM just isn’t working out all that well…maybe someone will get the hint and open source DRM.
Windows has a long history of “borrowing” features from the Mac. Not that this is a bad thing…almost all successful products are a new and improved version of something that came before it. It does seem like a large number of features that were introduced on the Mac have moved to Windows in a new improved form. The situation was so bad at one point that the two companies sued each other over the right to the trash can. Who won? Microsoft ended up using a recycle bin instead of a trash can. Regardless, today my primary development workstation runs Windows XP Pro so Microsoft must be doing something right.
Enter Windows Vista…the fact is, looks do matter and Windows Vista looks gorgeous! Vista seems to be all about eye-candy from its transparent windows and title bars to the new alternative Alt-Tab interface. Read the rest of this entry >>>
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