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  • Microsoft backtracks on Vista transfer limits

    Reversing a licensing change announced two weeks ago, Microsoft said on Thursday that it will not limit the number of times that retail customers can transfer their Windows Vista license to a different computer.

  • New DVDs spark copy-protection confusion

    When the first high-definition DVDs finally hit shelves this autumn, a mad scramble may ensue -- not for the discs themselves, but to figure out what computers and devices are actually able to play them in their full glory.

  • Death of the free Web: A new world order

    Free turns to fee as companies begin to charge for content and services. Will gated Internet communities bring a segregation of information?

  • Microsoft limits Vista transfers

    Windows Vista may have new features for mobile computers, but the operating system itself is becoming considerably less portable.

  • The Year 2000 in review

    The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.

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