Sony is now shipping CDs with a rootkit installed to prevent copyright infringment (read: pirated CDs).
Have they gone to far to protect thier media? With a full disclosure, they should be allowed to do whatever they want to the system their manufacture (assuming they don't violate Microsoft or another companies policies), but lacking that disclosure, they violate their user's rights.
Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far: "While I believe in the media industry's right to use copy protection mechanisms to prevent illegal copying, I don't think that we've found the right balance of fair use and copy protection, yet. This is a clear case of Sony taking DRM too far."
Internet Explorer 7 ( IE7) has new features, including some never attempted tabbed browsing features that look very neat.
Scot's Newsletter | By Scot Finnie | November 2005 | http://www.scotsnewsletter.com/74.htm: "New Internet Explorer 7 Features Revealed
By Barbara Krasnoff and Scot Finnie
The October CTP of Windows Vista brought with it several new visible browser features. An in-depth review of this new version of Internet Explorer 7 appears in the January issue of PC Today, which will hit the newsstands in about two weeks. To bring you another perspective, Barbara Krasnoff, TechWeb Pipelines' Reviews Editor, shared her experiences with this latest version of IE7. So this part of the newsletter presents IE 7 observations from both of us."
New tool from Microsoft to test your system for errors in RAM. Neat project which supports older hardware and can tell pretty quickly if your memory is defunct.
Microsoft Online Crash Analysis - windiag: "The Windows Memory Diagnostic tests the Random Access Memory (RAM) on your computer for errors."
