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Great summary of a very busy week for tech news; thanks. I would not normally post to say just that (and that IMHO Apple is either spreading itself very thinly, or losing interest in the Mac; though the stuff demonstrated in the keynote was pretty impressive, it wasn't what was anticipated) but given your excellent review of what Roxette was all about I felt compelled to write. I remember listening to Roxette and playing on the new-fangled N64 "back in the day" and you're right -- they had a great style and I miss them -- and will definitely check out Alphabeat.

I do think that Roxette did some very good "grown-up" songs -- including C.B.B. of course but also (the original) It Must Have Been Love, The Rain and the sublime Here Comes the Weekend. It's their upbeat and incredibly catchy hooks mixed with fantastic middle 8s that always manage to lift one's spirits, though, eh!

...you don't go out with a big splash. You save it for future events.

I'm pretty sure that it was the licensing servers that were overwhelmed. Thus, bittorrent wouldn't have helped.

Hi Thom,

I like this week in review style article. Is it something you're going to continue doing? I'd love to see this continue.

Sorry if you've announced this elsewhere.. I've somehow missed it if you have.

The new taskbar clearly comes out of Cupertino, and that's a bad thing. There is a reason Apple zealots never used the dock as an example why OSX is superior.

You can go on about document-centric interfaces as long as you like. The simple fact is that when an explorer window is open in 7, and I want to open another one, it's needlessly complicated. The same for editors, browser windows and anything else. Pinning programs to the taskbar is useless and with that new "feature" MS effectively eliminated the quicklaunch functionality from Windows.

(even worse is that 7 doesn't let you open a new eplorer window while another one shows the same directory. If you want to open two windows and browse to different directories to drag&drop, you have to change the dir in the first one before you can open another window. 100% braindead)

I think Tom is showing himself up quite a lot recently... this could not be very benefitial, because all you read it's him. Soon people will start to question this site credibility. I've seen some real strange stuff over the past months, even personal rants between him and another publisher. Forgive me, but this is looking more like a personal blog than a news site!

I think what Apple needs to do is publish an open source version of their OS, but have compile flags in the code which (if available) make calls to proprietary hardware. this way, you could run OS X on a regular machine, but never get the advantages of running it on Apple hardware, which might have cool multi-core PA-semi coprocessors etc that take full advantage of OpenCL. sure, it'll run on a standard i686 box, but you'll be missing out in terms of the cool stuff. this way, they could really grow their developer base, move into business applications in a serious way (no reason for the IT dept to have to buy Apple HW) but at the same time, reserve their cool gear for higher margin. and leave OSX neat and closed the way it is. this way developers will not resent Apple hardware as being expensive because it'll have stuff that no other machine can actually do - so there's little risk to Apple to have everyone buy generic white boxes - the hw is still incredibly desirable and can command a higher margin. But they get into the business app world in a more serious way once they get rid of the Mac stigma that IT managers just roll their eyes at, and always will. apart from certain departments like audio/visual and creative and sound where Apple is appropriate, there's little chance of Macs getting into the standard desktop environment no matter how good they are almost - Apple should wake up to this, and step outside "Mac" a little more.