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<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />Just what exactly is irony? Does it change socks every day like the rest of us? Anyway, here's your morning reboot:
* It's official, [Windows Vista for Business launches today][1]. Microsoft has a new website to celebrate to occasion, complete with a video the ever creepy Steve Ballmer welcoming you to "a new day." Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 will also be today.
* AMD is expected to [launch the Quad FX Platform today][2]. The new chip consists of two of the dual-core Athlon processors connected to two Nvidia chipsets. The Quad FX Platform is AMD's response to Intel's Core 2 Extreme, but the Quad FX is slightly different in that it isn't two chips in one socket, rather two chips in two sockets. If you know what that means, then this could be the chip for you. AMD plans to release a true quad core chip early next year.
* Fast on the heels of yesterday's Verizon/YouTube deal, comes another announcement that [Verizon has a similar deal with Revver][3]. Revver typically adds adverts to the end of it's video streams, but that won't be the case with the mobile offering, instead uploaders will share in the licensing deal with Verizon.
* The NFL is [bringing live broadcasts to the web][4] -- sort of. The NFL Network's Thursday and Saturday telecasts will be available to Verizon's FiOS and DirecTV internet subscribers. The Reuters article has a great quote from NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy, "it's not disrupting anything that's already available... It's taking advantage of the current technology." In other words, the NFL still doesn't understand the internet.
[1]: http://msnewday.com/ "Windows Vista - it's a new day"
[2]: http://news.com.com/2100-1042_3-6139465.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "AMD Quad Core"
[3]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061129/ap_on_hi_te/verizon_wireless_revver "Verizon Revver deal"
[4]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-11-30T114916Z_01_N30420400_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEDIA-NFL.xml&src=rss "The NFL goes online"
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