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On Monday, Microsoft Office 2010 was was leaked to the torrents, so I decided to see what the hype was about and grabbed myself a copy.

I am unable to find any difference in actual use, but there are definitely visual changes....

So last Friday was supposed to be the official launch of the semi-public beta of Windows 7, with Microsoft promising 2.5 million unique product keys to people.

This set into motion a massive surge on Microsoft’s servers on Friday, culminating in an epic crash. I myself wasted 4 hours trying to get a key (of course, I had my computer do it for me so I could be productive during that time) and when I woke up on Saturday I found that Microsoft had made it a public beta, and were offering five universal keys for each version....

So, another year come and gone. This post is basically ramblings, this might take a bit, and might go all over the place. Try to follow.

First of all, what is this Web 2.0 bullshit? Back in the late 1990’s, there was this huge dot-com thing, and all the companies were trying to climb on the bandwagon in time, when suddenly, they all realized that it was completely empty and nonexistent, and it collapsed. Fast forward a bit less than 10 years, and we have this thing called Web 2.0, and all the companies are trying to climb on the ...