11.   Ballmer said the new operating system would include advances in digital media handling, home networking, Internet technologies and improvements in the ease of installation and use.

12.   Because digital media are not like books.

13.   Because making and distributing copies are tasks that computers and networks perform with ease, some people argue that it is impossible to protect digital media from counterfeiters.

14.   -- Digital media.

15.   A better way is to pop out the storage device and insert it into a digital media card reader, also attached to the computer.

16.   But for now, no digital format has the richness of film, and some question how long digital media, like magnetic tape and CD-ROMs, can last.

17.   But he is an ambitious artist doing imaginative things with still-experimental digital media, and this is a promising debut.

18.   But the danger is that digital media are dead media, instantly distributed and instantly obsolete, with no history, no memory, no context.

19.   But while Microsoft slowly throttles up its Internet engine, the prospect of new types of computers optimized for communication and digital media is already at hand.

20.   Digital media also function as a virtual hearth at home, the study said.