This picture is just GREAT:

I still hope for them he used PowerPoint and not Apple’s Keynote…

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Ask H&FJ | Hoefler & Frere-Jones:
As for the word “ampersand,” folk etymologies abound. The likeliest account, offered by the OED, is explained by early alphabet primers in which the symbol was listed after X, Y, Z as “&: per se, and.” Meaning “&: in itself, ‘and’”, and inevitably pronounced as “and per se and”, it’s [...]

DRM sucks redux: Microsoft to nuke MSN Music DRM keys:
Customers who have purchased music from Microsoft’s now-defunct MSN Music store are now facing a decision they never anticipated making: commit to which computers (and OS) they want to authorize forever, or give up access to the music they paid for. Why? Because Microsoft has decided [...]

Over at InfoWorld, Randall C. Kennedy wrote an interesting review. He tested the performance of various flavors of Windows and Office on different PC configuration.
His conclusion:
Fat, fatter, fattest: Microsoft:
The conventional wisdom regarding PC evolution, that Microsoft devours every Intel advance, continues to hold true right up through the current generation of Windows Vista and Office [...]

Interesting take on why Apple’s approach to controlling the whole iPhone application ecosystem is a better idea than Google’s “free for all” for the Android platform.
Why The iPhone Is Poised to Crush Android:
Apple’s approach to quality control addresses not only the customers interests, but the reputation of the iPhone as well. While it seems rigid [...]

Did you know that, on the iPhone, you can do “mouse over” events in Safari, like on a regular computer?
If a link has an “hover” or “OnMouseOver” property, simply touch and hold the link for a couple seconds and you will see a “tooltip” pop up with the word “Action” in it. Now you can [...]

From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user’s conversion to Mac OS X:
There are lots of developers producing Mac applications and utilities. And they’re actually making an effort with them. Conscientious developers, who care about making an application that looks good, works well, and exploits the capabilities of the OS, are putting out great applications for [...]

I don’t know what to say, really…

Actually, after watching the whole thing, I think it is PRETTY CLEVER. Not like in “artsy-clever”, no, but like in “how can we get our thousands-strong salesforce to remember what they have to sell Vista on?”. See? So yes the video is tacky, ugly, ridiculous, cheesy and so on, [...]