Burnator

Ack, using ISOs on Windows XP fits in that time period where I think I'll do it often enough to remember what software to use but ends up being long enough that I don't. So the two I've used the most is InfraRecord and IsoRecorder (a secret).

Bad Balmer

Eight Years of Wrongness. Lists some of the things believed to have gone wrong with Microsoft in the last 10 years or so. They include: losing the DOJ and EU cases, Vista, XBox, IE, Zune, and Windows Mobile. Linked mainly because they use Fake Steve as a source of analysis.

X for Vista

Windows Vista Vista is not a copy of OS X. The search box is in the completely opposite corner (bottom left opposed to top right), gadgets not widgets, and the 3D chess games in Vista has porcelain as a board type (innovative).

Vista Wins on Looks. As for Lacks ... suggests that the copying wasn't quite perfect, "And then there’s that Sidebar, the floating layer of mini-programs. If you close one of the gadgets, you lose its contents forever: your notes in the Post-it Notes gadget, your stock portfolio in the Stocks gadget, and so on. You couldn’t save them if you wanted to. How could Microsoft have missed that one."

Look Twice

An interesting post, "Windows XP, Our New Favorite Legacy Operating System" discusses the ramifications of 5 years without a new version of Windows and subliminal logos (I'll never look at an "Ex" the same way).

We are all focusing on OS X releases (and how Vista is copying OS X) during that time but I haven't found anywhere focusing on the progress of 5 years of Linux development.