John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on a host of topics: what ails Microsoft, the (slow, partial) democratization of corporate IT, the people vs. George Lucas, perpetual copyright, applications as art, Siri backlash, and the evils of Blu-ray.

Links for this episode:

• In Defense of Microsoft (or, You Cannot Have Your Cake and Eat It Too) - Michael Anderson
  
• Let’s Stop with the Siri Baiting - TidBITS
  
• George Lucas's 1988 Speech About Preserving Films, and Maybe Not Adding a Bunch of CGI Shit to Them - I Watch Stuff
  
• Do As I Say, Not As I Do: George Lucas Quotes on Film Preservation - Save Star Wars
  
• TV isn't broken, so why fix it? - CNN.com
  
• Siri Is Apple's Broken Promise - Gizmodo
  
• Ridley Scott: The Only Way to See a Film
  
• National Film Registry - Wikipedia
  
• More Details On Pete Docter Movie That ‘Takes You Inside The Mind’
  
• John Lasseter on Charlie Rose
  
• Giga - Wikipedia
  
• A "Jon" that's not short for Jonathan - Twitter
  
• Why Siri had to start in beta - Benoit Maison
  

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