Maximumpc's article between Portable Apps and LiberKey

Maximum PC introduced me to PortableApps IIRC. I actually bought my first flash drive from the AutoPatcher team a month or so before they closed up shop. With AP no longer current, I drifted away from using it, and really no longer needed the flash drive. I read about PortableApps in Maximum PC, and I think they had the Suite (one of 'em, I think it was the Lite one with AbiWord), so I pulled out my old flash drive and installed it. I didn't "get it" at the time; sure, it was a neat idea, but the sheer awesomeness of it didn't dawn on me until I began using a computer at work. So I went back to PortableApps and the rest is history. I had a subscription with them for a couple years, but quit when I realized in the time it took them to research a product or story, write it, publish it, and get it to me, it was last month's news. Or older. Still, it's a good mag. The best of the PC mags, in my opinion.

I read most of that article, but licensing issues give me a headache. Despite being perhaps a little overzealous (but then, someone's gotta be - often enough it's me on some issues, even), JTH is right in that article. He caught the LiberKey folks with their pants down and they backpedaled right into a corner. Still, their menu appears to be far in advance of ours from the screenshot I saw. I like what I have with PA, and a few of the launcher menus are a ways off, but some are nicer. Still, I stick with PA because I trust it at work.