Gmail: no invite needed anymore!

don't know if I belong to the ones who noticed that a bit late, but yesterday I saw that anyone can now, without the need of an invite, open a Gmail account. Sounds like Windows Live Mail is coming guys!
update: the exact date when Gmail was open to public in the States, Europe and Japan was February the eighth. They started in Australia a few months before this.

Google Desktop 3.0: NO!

sorry guys, I'll translate this later into English. Here is a copy of the message I sent to the french Google team after I uninstalled Google Desktop 3.0 from Vista:

" graphisme deplorable de la barre d'outil laterale, completement depasse depuis la sortie de Windows Vista, probablement spyware, interface pc-web trop "intime" (lol),la version 2.0 reprenait des projets de Microsoft, la version 3.0 tente d'imiter Vista. STOP. Pour etre prix au serieux sur ce terrain, Google devrait nous pondre un OS...la version 2.0 pouvait repondre a une attente, combler quelques lacunes d'XP, mais la vraiment, la 3.0, c'est du rechauffe. Inutile.Google devrait se contenter de faire dans les domaines dans lesquels il sait faire: Gmail, Blogger, Picasa..."

"Google Blog Search Surpasses Technorati, Attracts a Younger Audience" (Digital Media Wire)

as mentioned in the title of this post,here is a link to an article that you might want to read. And here is the link for a Google blog search.