Music (used to have Zune Pass, which was cheap already, but I discovered the wonders of private torrent sites), TV (hulu has it), and anything that can be downloaded.

@Sudharsan Govindarajan: It was recommended before they added the crap in, I call for an article diswowning it.

I used to be a big digsby fan, but ever since they started doing the crapware bundles and the "help use my computer for research" option, I've decided I don't trust them. If only Pidgin didn't need a ton of plugins to match the functionality of Digsby, oh well, it's not that bad of a messenger/

Some of those abbreviations are pretty stupid IMO. MUSC? why FFOX when you can use WEB? FRWL took a few seconds for me to figure out, and DWLD looks kinda dumb. Desktop is pretty stylish overall though.

@JONNRG: Zune.

@askj113: I hate standing up for apple, but...

How does Premiere Pro stacck up against premiere elements? I've had some weird stability issues with elements, but it could be the codecs on my system.

@docbob: Except unlike MySpaceIM, Chrome is actually a really good product.

VOTE: old XP PC with utorrent, logmein, and filezilla. Handles remote control, remote torrents, and file transfer, and runs on anything that handles windows.

This is a good idea, they're already making tons of cash from windows, why not invest it into their other products? Zune could really use some good publicity, most people don't realize they have Windows Media Center, most people still freak out when they see my netbook, and the surface makes for some good PR. Stores…

@arienh4: They can switch to RTMP, like hulu and MTVmusic. The only guys that really had RTMP ripping down (replay media catcher) recently got served by adobe, so they can no longer decrypt protected streams.

@FrisbeeNaked: No, you're all wrong.

@kamnet: Let's be fair here, Kazaa came with a LOT of spyware, especially for its time. Trojans and viruses, on the other hand, came through the network itself. I remember K-lite as an alternative to the main client.

@concordia: First, they're never going to make it open, mostly because of the potential for clients that don't give back to the network, but also because it relies on payment. Second, its been possible since 3.0 to turn off supernode, with a registry key.

I'm probably not going to upgrade until they make a business version available, unless the new bandwidth manager is really that good. The business version of Skype strips out all of the colorful crap and skypecasts and what not, and halves the ram usage, its much nicer. Is 4 worth upgrading for?

Digsby sold out when they switched the installer and started allowing distributed computing projects to be run over their network. Pidgin is way better, now that it has the facebook plugin and such.

@carlyld: You should already try to make the switch, its leaps and bounds better than Live Mail, and they have a bunch of different ways to pull and push email to and from your account, whereas Hotmail is mostly a lock-in to Microsoft products.

My Zune 80gb will pay out more than that touch will, according to the site. Odd.

@P_Smith: Soylent green?

@Wellard: Can't believe a device doesn't have native copy/paste in this day and age? We'll kindly ask you hold off, please, because we've heard that exact witticism, oh, once or twice 'round these parts.