Posted 10/16/2008 at 10:02:33am

Personally I don't know why they ever strayed from the naming scheme they started with Windows 95, and followed with 98, 98se, and 2000. They also do the same with Windows server editions. It's much easier to remember a year than it is a version number. Understandably most software needs version numbers because they are updated many more times than once a year, but an OS would have no problems with that.

Posted 09/24/2008 at 08:54:22am

Personally I would never purchase something like this. I don't understand why anybody would like this idea. Even with DRM free music we'd still have to waste time with one more step to pull the music off the chip before we could burn it to a lossy CD that sounds terrible in a nice sound system. I'd much rather just buy a hard copy of the CD which I can use in my truck, loan to someone, sell later, and rip as many copies to my backup hard drives and different computers as I want. Then the studio quality in the CD remains and if I want something to listen to in the office or just piddling around the house I can do that too. CDs are images which cannot be overwritten or fail electrically like a flash drive can and WILL given enough time. Every flash drive I've ever had has eventually gone bad and I expect the new ones to as well. Don't scratch your CDs and they'll last as long as you care to have them. The real question here is why the companies would sell a 1GB flash card with MP3s that can't possibly take more space than 200MB. When artists want to add more things like interviews and music videos they do it on their websites and DVDs or a 2-CD set. It's not really that big of a deal that we need to change all our CD players out for new ones that are compatible with flash drives. I thought MP3 CDs were going to be the greatest thing ever. I soon ditched them for my originals because of the quality. Unfortunately, the many average users with untrained ears out there will probably take this new idea and run with it because to them "song" and "MP3" are synonymous.