The Beast of Redmond:
Microsoft buys SGI's graphics patents; penguinheads concerned they may be used to crush OpenGL, or cripple 3D graphics capabilities on non-Windows platforms.
Meanwhile, if you use Windows Media Player to download content from sites,
the sites can
keep track of you, using a convenient global ID number.
Apparently this is not a bug but a feature.
(via Slashdot)