This Week in Tech 73

Dvorak eats crow, Congress eats gambling sites, and Microsoft eats its young...

• Microsoft has severely limited Windows Vista license transfers.
• If you do not pass WGA in Windows Vista, you will be put into a "reduced functionality mode".
• Disney claims, "We understand piracy now as a business model."
• Creative pushed out a firmware update that disabled FM recording.
• Executives from McAfee and CNet have both resigned over stock options.
• Monster's CEO resigned because he could "no longer dedicate the numer of hours required" to review the company's stock option grants.
• HP's CEO Mark Hurd sold $1.4 million a week before the spying scandal was unveiled.
• Google has officially bought YouTube for $1.65 billion.
• In the process of being acquired by Google, Youtube had to implement an anti-piracy system.
• Apparently, over half of MySpace users are over the age of 35.
• With the passing of a new anti-terrorism bill, online gambling is now illegal.
• PokerStars says that it is still in business under the new anti-gambling law because poker is apparently a game of skill.
• Eudora has gone open-source, and the Mozilla Foundation will be its caretaker.
• According to an Apple-funded study "proved" that a 30-in. screen increases productivity.
• Play every Apple 2 game ever created online.
• Transmeta has sued Intel over patent infringements.
• Microsoft is going to push out Internet Explorer 7 over Microsoft Update.