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it's Tuesday August 30th 2011 I'm Wilson dang on CNN com and it's time to get loaded details of the next version of Microsoft's flagship desktop operating system called Windows 8 have surfaced the venerable Windows Explorer gets a major facelift courtesy of the Microsoft Office suite of programs that's right the Explorer window will now use the ribbon for better or worse microsoft says that in their research the top ten commands in Windows Explorer are used eighty-two percent of the time commands will be grouped together in foul home share view and manage tabs microsoft says the new windows explorer can display even more files in the same space as windows 7 apple has released its iTunes Match service to developers to start testing before it opens up to consumers iTunes Match will scan a user's library to find music and cross-reference the files to Apple's own library so users won't have to spend days or weeks uploading music as part of the test developers will get to try the service free of charge as well as three months free when the service is released it will cost twenty four ninety-nine a month and covers up to 25,000 songs developers are already reporting a nice surprise iTunes Match will allow users to stream music in addition to downloading additionally in more iCloud news a note suggests that Snow Leopard users won't be left out of the cold Apple is apparently gearing up to release an update to the older OS that will allow users to sync with its upcoming I Claud service Nintendo's legend of zelda skyward sword has finally gotten a release date as well as a special edition for fans the game itself will be released on November 20th but Nintendo is prepping a special edition that comes with a golden Wii mote plus the special edition is set to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the popular video game series both standalone and special editions will come with a special symphony concert CD netflix users will have just a few days to decide which plan to get before the company forces them into significantly higher cost plans in July Netflix and nuts that the popular $10 month single DVD and streaming plan was going away instead each plan will cost 799 each or 1598 for both to make the change or to cancel and just visit your netflix account page WikiLeaks has published an unredacted cache of some quarter million US State Department cables unlike previous leaks by the anti-secrecy organization the 1.7 gigabyte file contains uncensored names and material that already has government agencies and protected sources of fearing reprisal the file that was leaked that was encrypted but the password was also leaked giving everyone access to the secret information WikiLeaks for its parts as it did not leak the password those are your headlines for today I'm Wilson tank for CI calm and you've just been loaded