Blogger Michael Arrington said Gates’ short-term advice for people wanting to transfer songs from one system to another was to “buy a CD and rip it.”
Now Suw Charman, of the Open Rights Group, said it was a “bit rich of Bill Gates to make his comments, given how much DRM is stuffed into Vista.” And we know how much MS swears by DRM anyway…
But we told you so. We told you last month Mr Gates had become more amiable, more matter-of-fact, and, in general, more prone to telling things the way they are. See?
“You’d Have To Be Nuts”
Reporters from British online tech tabloid The Register caught Intel executives in an unusual, perhaps inebriated, mood where they, in a manner not befitting them, verbally pooh-poohed the competition. Intel “vowed to overwhelm AMD” with a regular “cadence” of product releases that run on a “tick-tock” fashion: Intel will slap a new architecture upon the market (the tock), then follow up with a less dramatic manufacturing process, core, voltage, and cache shifts (the tick).
Salvo #3: “I was very pleased to read that a number of analysts have downgraded AMD.”
To our surprise, there hasn’t been a peep from the other side yet. Perhaps AMD execs are more graceful. (Or maybe they just don’t want to highlight the beating.)
Footnote: type in “britney google” into Google and go to the first non-sponsored result. The horror of it all will come forth.