@Stereotype Totally. It was a bit of a risky business strategy, and it's totally paid off. They've turned the books market on its head, and it now looks like it could really grow after a lot of decline in the internet age, and Amazon are in a good position to take advantage of it.

@MeisterDon how about the fact that it was run-over and it's a slow news day?

It's like the ads showing the ps3 launched through a bravia or the "will it blend?" videos. We're but simple folk, and we love watching stuff getting ripped to shreds.

"about $448"

uhm... isn't that technically rape?

It's in the OED. It arrived along with 'iPod' and 'Blairite' a few years back.

Unlike other european languages (French, German..etc), there is no body that governs the English language. What people say is categorically correct.

On Windows there is. OSX and Linux can mount images by double-clicking the file - in fact, Mac software is usually distributed online through disk images.

Easy image mounting is one of the top things people have been crying out to Microsoft for. They make powertoys to do it, so they obviously recognise the need to integrate the functionality.

@Eddie

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2190624/robbie_keane_belter_vs_arsenal/

'nuff said

I typed a longer, thought-out reply to this, but deleted it with a "can I be bothered?" sigh.

I've been doing that more and more on engadget lately. This place is a mess, not a place for sensible commenting on technology.

I think that about sums it up, although the author's probably loving it: his sales are going to go through the roof when it finally gets approved (with or without 'iPhone' in the title).

Feel free to reject my post because I used the word 'iPhone' in it.

People should just use PDFs straight. Seriously, since I bought a Mac, my hatred for anything PDF has just gone. On Windows, you have to open up Acrobat reader (which is a pig). On a Mac, it opens up in Preview just like a JPEG, or in Safari in a seamless built-in reader. Microsoft need to add support to windows' picture viewer - it's just so useful!

PDFs are quick to open, and represent things exactly as they would appear on paper. They're also vector-based for easy scaling whilst preserving formatting, and can be opened easily on any platform. Also, unlike OOXML, you don't get formatting errors on other platforms (nobody formats things like Word, reading from the same spec sheet).

No. Microsoft didn't remove things like Windows Mail because of antitrust issues, they did it to try and build their "Windows Live" brand.

It was always easy to change your default email client. The problem competitors faced was not competing against built-in products like Windows Mail, but competing against Outlook. Obviously, Outlook is not bundled with Windows, so antitrust doesn't come in to it.