. @ajfrod from what I can tell Comet was offering or selling recovery CDs or DVDs as a value-add with new PC sales

If Comet was supplying Windows CDs to customers who had valid OEM product IDs stuck to their PCs, I think it will win some sympathy

@TravellerIAm thanks, I will

@josefardo hi, any chance of a quick comment on Silverlight and its future for an article I'm writing? tim at itwriting dot com

@mbrit err that would be tim at itwriting dot com, thanks Twitter!

@mbrit if you can add a couple of reasons to an email and send to tim(at)itwriting.com that would be great!

Urgent: Need quick comment from devs / analysts re Silverlight for article. Do you love 5.0, worried about future? tim(at)itwriting-dot-com

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Holiday last week? You might have missed my 2011 review: ten key events from Nokia’s burning platform to HP’s nightmare bit.ly/rPBFar

Asus Transformer Prime update: Google video rental or unlocked bootloader, you choose bit.ly/yHi8a9

Still time to win: I'm giving away an excellent book on software development bit.ly/rK02WP

"one of the strangest things I ever saw" says @duanechaos Duane Nickull about Adobe redundancies bit.ly/tG7mn7

Users petition Asus over locked bootloader in Asus Transformer Prime bit.ly/ubbffT

What is the best way to choose a development tool? bit.ly/s7anGA

Amazing that Access 2010 UI locks solid when running a query. Note that Microsoft made async nearly unavoidable in WinRT

@jonhoneyball @mbrit not bothered about the USB port cover now, something you get used to

RT @snowpong: Qt for WP7 poll is about to overtake the Native SDK for WP7 poll. At the moment it's 2076 vs 2157 votes - bit.ly/qtonwp_poll

@charlesarthur @edbott @mbrit I like the lumia more than the HTCs I've tried; main disappointment is apps (lack of good ones)

@edbott agreed, stupidity, esp. given that we know how easy it is to make a screen capture utility

@edbott just sign up as a dev :-)