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On April 19, 2010, IGN released a 'making of' video that features Lamb of God working on their next single, "Hit the Wall". The single is featured in the Iron Man 2 video game.[69] On February 15, 2011, Lamb of God announced that "Hit the Wall" would be available to buy via digital download.[70] The band was also featured on the soundtrack for Namco Bandai Games' 2010 remake of Splatterhouse.Lamb of God was announced as one of the bands (the other being Baroness) to support Metallica on their Australian tour in late 2010.[71]In a September 2010 interview, drummer Chris Adler mentioned that Lamb of God will enter the studio in February 2011 to begin work on a seventh album. In November, Chris also mentioned that the band will work with producer Josh Wilbur again.[72]

The band began teasing a new album, with the placeholder title Lamb of God VII via Instagram and Twitter in late April 2015. A website, lambofgodvii.com, initially comprising an empty black screen, went online in early May. The "VII" (the roman numeral for the number seven) refers to the album being the band's seventh, and does not take into account the first of their albums, released with a slightly different line-up as Burn the Priest.[93] On May 15, 2015, it was announced that the title of the new album VII: Sturm und Drang, and would be released in July via Epic and Nuclear Blast Entertainment. The first song, "Still Echoes" was made available for streaming on LambofGodVII.com, and available for digital download on May 18.[94] In June of the same year, the band released a video for the song "512".[95]

Microsoft are describing Windows XP as the biggest update to its operating systems since the move to Windows 95, which is strange, since that was meant to be true of Windows 2000, also. In fact, there's a lot about Windows XP that Windows 2000 users will be familiar with, and a lot of changes to the formula. Supposedly a convergence OS, we see more of 2000 in XP than we see Millennium. Microsoft doesn't just plan to converge its operating environments; it also plans to include standard-setting software in a number of categories. It has finally integrated CD-burning and the latest version of WM Audio, which some say is neck and neck with MP3 in terms of quality and compression. A stronger emphasis has been placed on "always-on" Internet functionality, with more security measures like a personal firewall and digital signatures for potentially distributable music files, and of course it has added the notorious Product Activation system, of which more later. Windows Update will play a more critical role in everyday computer use, with updates downloaded silently if requested, and eventually all driver updates will be centralised through Microsoft's download vessel. Microsoft are pushing XP hard, integrating hundreds of unique products and technologies, and backing it all up with an extraordinary marketing budget (apparently a rather inexplicable $1 billion). The company wants us to upgrade, and thanks to their considerable muscle, will probably make it quite a compelling argument.

One of the key areas Microsoft wants to address is digital music and video. Because it legally belongs to somebody, and people want to use it on their computers, the company reasons, there's a way to create and exploit relationships with the people who own it. In this case, that means the world's recording industries and movie studios. Digital signatures, similar to the little pop-ups you see in Internet Explorer when a website wants you to download some new software (e.g. Flash), will now be applied to music on a grand scale. If you place a CD in your computer's CD-Rom drive and ask Windows Media Player to convert it into WMA files for later listening, it will make sure that the file can only be played on your computer "until further licenses are purchased". In other words, once they have cajoled the record companies into creating an online pay-per-play service that interacts with Windows. The same is likely to be true of movies. In the Windows XP betas this writer has been privy to, the option to disable digital signatures is still included. But like the option to encode in MP3, we reckon this will disappear quite soon. It's something Microsoft has no reason to allow you to do, and plenty of reason to prevent you from doing. Complain? You could, but like so much of the functionality in Windows XP, this was thought up with the law, and revenue at the centre of it. Luckily, Windows Media Player 8 is actually a very competent system for delivering CD-quality music and DVD-quality video. With the release of Windows XP, you will be able to expect Near-CD quality music streamed over a modem, CD-quality over ISDN and DVD-quality video on ADSL. This will certainly affect the digital radio industry - people will simply turn to radio stations on their PC, many of whom already broadcast over the Internet. A little upgrade here and there and you're laughing. Streaming pay-per-view movies and music is another plan. You can already do this if you live in the USA, with films like The Score and even sporting events available from pages like this one. Thanks to Windows Media Player 8, you will be able to burn your own CDs of music and such, but the digital signature system will have work to do here also. In what capacity is currently unknown. General CD-burning will be possible by simply dragging and dropping files in Windows Explorer then finalising the disc. If that sounds familiar, it's because it's the system seen in the likes of Nero and Adaptec EasyCD, both of which Microsoft seem to want to monopolise. The file system in Windows XP, incidentally, has been carefully refined in many respects, which knocks out most antivirus programs (except for the very latest Norton releases), CD-burning programs like Nero and EasyCD, which crash and burn rather than burn, and personal firewall software like BlackIce Defender and until recently, Zone Alarm. It's surely a coincidence, but it's another obstacle placed in the way of people Microsoft now views as competitors.

Windows XP is geared toward people with always-on Internet connections. The digital signature system will safeguard copyright-protected material from illegal distribution via the likes of Napster, forcing people into the underground and to rival, perhaps inferior encoding systems, while the heavy reliance on Windows Update for anything and everything, and the tight integration of Internet Explorer 6 seem conclusive. If anything shows Microsoft's intentions here though, it's the personal firewall. Accessed by right-clicking on My Computer and selecting the person firewall tab, the system protects users from harmful outsiders. It's hard to ascertain just how effective it is (especially since it isn't finished), but it's an obvious attempt to keep those casually concerned about security happy. Why buy a competitor's product when you have one built in to the operating system? Hang on, didn't Netscape say that? Netscape who? Other subtle changes include the upgrade to Internet Explorer 6, which now controls most of the operating system, much to the annoyance of Judge Jackson, whose rulings in the Microsoft/DOJ antitrust case prior to their rebuttal vilify these actions. Another area Microsoft is making inroads on is the instant messaging service. MSN Messenger 4 is now simply Windows Messenger, and integrates itself with a hundred and one applications, even games and media services. Perhaps the biggest Internet-related problem for Microsoft with Windows XP has been the extraordinary coverage given to its adoption of the raw sockets TCP/IP protocol by security veteran Steve Gibson (grc.com). Gibson's argument is that in Windows XP, unlike any other Microsoft operating system before it, you can spoof your IP address, and for no good reason. This functionality, he claims, will mean any compromised machine may be used like a virtual zombie in massive distributed Denial of Service attacks. His arguments can be viewed here and here. Microsoft's answer to this is one of animosity, really. They don't feel it's a big issue and they claim the functionality fills a gap in their TCP/IP stack that technicians have been asking for. A more reasoned rant comes from Register writer Thomas C Greene. In a piece entitled "Steve Gibson really is off his rocker," Greene points out a couple of important things; that spoofing simply defeats filters, and filters are not the way to deal with denial of service attacks; and moreover, that raw sockets will not multiply the number of compromised machines. Any attacker still has to compromise machines before attempting a denial of service attack. Raw sockets will make attacks "more of a pain", Greene concedes, but "nothing in XP is going to increase the number of infected victims".

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