Microsoft has tweaked its WGA so it doesn't phone home everytime you reboot the machine. AMD's Socket F Opteron naming scheme has been released. Sony aims to have a computer Blu-Ray recorder available by August.

SONY'S DISK drive division is working hard to introduce Blu-Ray. It merged with NEC in April and will try to take as much market as possible. But despite the fact that some Blu-Ray consumer recorders are out and about, there won't be any computer drives on the shelves before August.