Best Buy memo details Windows 7 some upgrade pricing

@gorath "Waethorn, the same happened with OSX itself, which many mac crazies seem to forget. I've had people preach at me that OSX is not in fact the second coming, but the first arrival of the one true god, as it would be foolhardy to believe that such perfection could be anything else (I paraphrase, but.... meh) They all seem to forget the problems that were caused by the changeover from macOS to OSX." How does this statement have anything to do with Best Buy's memo wording and info about the upgrade price of Windows 7?? My only comments about Apple were in response to what you said about them, and Wae's response to what you said. Even then my response was only about consumer satisfaction. I did not praise Apple or bash MS. Who needs to grow up?

@dipshtadmin: "Of course, it isn't much different than any of the other governments around the world. Slow, bloated, costs too much, and boring." Yes, that is true. @shark47: "It's funny that even the worst US Government is orders of magnitude better than the best Governments in many countries. Of course, the US is responsible for bringing some of these Governments into power." The US Government is better for its own people (which is understood). But not good to other countries, when it's killing the leaders and citizens in other countries. Invading or taking over to enforce their own agenda and points of view. Then I have a real dislike for the US government.

->Waethorn Thanks. That's all that need to be said. :)

Great, I just bought a new netbook. (this does cover netbooks, right?)

Dang, Subzerohitman beat me to the punch [again]. Definitely agree that it's a good move by MS if true. BB has leaked a lot of true stuff in the past.

lotsa, You've posted one side of the store, as was expected from you. http://www.beet.tv/2009/06/wow-bing-has-live-video-thumbnails-but-is-it-... " [The] feature is ... probably within the bounds of fair use. Our apologies." http://www.beet.tv/2009/06/bing-has-integrated-hulu-clips-and-player-.html "Earlier this week, I reported that these thumbnails played full length and might be considered a violation of fair use. This is not correct, Microsoft has a technology which somehow samples segments from a clip and presents a short excerpt. I have amended my original post."' I would've expected this from robertsjoe, but not from you.

"If Apple or Google did this, you'd call it "evil"." Under fair use, it's acceptable to play an excerpt of a video so long as the original content creator says so. Obviously, sites like YouTube are the content providers here, so they are the responsible first-party that need to obtain IP rights. YouTube relenquishes responsibility for obtaining IP rights as part of the terms of service for posting anyway though, so it's entirely legal. YouTube and related sites don't block users from accessing public files. That goes for search engines and other public entities. Oh, and Google already did Book Search with full transcriptions of entire books WITHOUT permission of the original content holders. That's copyright infringement, plain and simple. The books WERE NOT in the public domain, and they just started scanning them and posting them online. So yes, they are evil. Besides, they do THE SAME DAMN THING - they both aggregate video feeds into their own page! (short of the thumbnail prevew). And here's a sampling to show you the difference in "safe" "pr0n" searching. Notice that Google's is more risqué (probably NSFW, but it's Saturday, and who the he11 works on Saturday?!): http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=booty+shake http://video.google.ca/videosearch?hl=en&q=booty%20shake# ....and Apple? Yes, according to Fox News, Apple is a search engine: http://gizmodo.com/5272417/fox-business-network-thinks-microsoft-and-app...

Oh, and FYI: Despite what others are reporting (within the US, mind you) Bing still respects IP address restrictions from video sites ie. I can't see Hulu results.