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2008 – Psystar came on the scene earlier in the year with a machine that would contain Windows, Linux or Mac software. Of course, this has not been without controversy. Apple finally put together a lawsuit, but instead of Psystar accepting, they decided to countersue. The reason why: Anticompetitive Nature.

Other items in Day in Tech History:

• Bloomberg publishes Steve Jobs death
• Scientific American is first published
• Powerbook 5300 recall

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Bloomberg reports that Cisco Systems has released its first server for use in corporate data center environments. Read the full story here.

According to the story, Cisco is banking on having designed a box that is easier to administer and manage in a network environment. Two excerpts:

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Netbooks seem to be the newest hot thing. I saw my first one a week ago, and it was slick. It was an XP box, but the user was running Ubuntu Linux under Wubi (we talked geek for almost an hour).

Windows is promising a stripped down version of Windows 7 adapted to netbooks. In this storyBloomberg News considers whether it will help Microsoft’s business model.

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This week we poke fun at Bloomberg who apparently made a small mistake earlier. A report was “accidentally” released that Steve Jobs had passed. Steve Jobs health has been in the spotlight recently, so this article could have hit people hard. The report was retracted.

It really begs the question: Do news wires pre-make stories for when things like this happen? It kinda reminds me of an older SNL skit where Dana Carvey played Tom Brokaw making possible news stories of Gerald Ford’s death.

Anyway, lets hear from the (very much alive) CEO, Steve Jobs in this week’s Bitstrips: