iTunes Completely DRM-Free, New Xserves

This week Apple completed the transition of the iTunes store to DRM-free music. So now all music you purchase is without DRM that will lock it only to your computers and iPods. With this change comes variable pricing, meaning that many new songs are now $1.29 instead of the traditional $0.99.
At first, many complained that these same songs were available from other sources like Amazon.com without DRM for only $0.99. But soon Amazon also increased their prices making the two stores in parity.
Anyone who bought copy-protected music at iTunes in the past can now upgrade those songs to the DRM-free versions for a price. Log onto the iTunes store in the iTunes application to see if any of your music is available for upgrade.
It looks like in order to make the music store completely DRM-free, some music has been removed. One can speculate that Apple was unable to get the rights to distribute those songs without DRM.
In other news, Apple released new server hardware this week. The new rack-mountable Xserves feature new processors, drives, memory and lots of options.