I just read Part 4 of Gizmodo's interview with Bill Gates and I have to say this is the best part so far.I love the way Gates actually opens up and goes on the offensive instead of any corporate-speak.
....Should an artist that creates a great song be paid for that song? That's where you have to start. You don't start with DRM. DRM is just like a speed bump that reminds you whether you're staying within the scope of rights that you have or you don't. So you don't start with DRM. That's like saying, 'Do you believe in speed bumps?' You have to say, 'Should people drive at 80mph in parking lots?' If you think they should, then of course you don't like speed bumps....
After 2 full days of using Yahoo Desktop Search (I had even uninstalled MSN), I'm now switching back to MSN. The reasons?
- MSN has inline preview which Yahoo does not. If you get 1000 results, I don't want to click on every single item to see what it contains.
- The context menu integration that MSN had was also cool.A lot of times, I wanted to just copy or move files.
- I used those shortcuts (aliases) very frequently. You have no idea how cool it is to just type 'wikipedia topic_name' to be taken to that taken. Now, this can be done with Firefox using bookmarks but not with IE
- Yahoo hogs a lot of RAM. Sometimes, the memory consumption went to over 130 MB. MSN is not really lean and mean, but it seemed to hog less resources.
- Somehow Yahoo's UI was too cluttered. I just didn't feel like using it. I wish I could be more precise than this - but MSN's UI was a lot more simplistic and pleasing.
Now, all of this are not tough problems to solve for Yahoo. Or course, there are certain features I wish MSN had as well (like the type-ahead search, and the file previews), but for now, I'm sticking to MSN. However, like I said before, when it comes down to a choice between Yahoo and MSN, it is going to come down to personal preference.