Software Dominance Rattled

Obama wants to know: Why open source?

President Barack Obama is a smart guy. Where others zig, he zags. It's perhaps not surprising, then, that he's been asking around about the benefits of open source, according to Sun Chairman Scott McNealy, who has been asked by President Obama to author a white paper on the benefits the U.S. government can derive from open source.

Another M$oft Disappointment?

Infoworld's review of Windows 7:

"Windows 7 seems to be many things to many different people. To the enthusiast crowd, it's the cool new OS of the moment, the one that will fix all of Vista's ills and make the world right again.

"To desperate IT planners, it's a potential "third way" out of their current XP-versus-Vista predicament.

"But for the rest of us (that is, veteran Windows users who can see through the hype), Windows 7 is really just Windows Vista with some performance tweaks and an updated Explorer shell.

It's a modest update..."

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Screen Capture Breakthrough

via Shaun Inman,

Layers: Screen Forensics - a $15 OS X app that takes a screenshot of your current desktop. The catch? The screenshot is saved as a PSD with layers for each application, window and desktop icon.