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If you’re really long in the tooth, you’ll recall when Microsoft introduced the undo command in Word for DOS. This little piece of bacon-saving magic was one of the great milestones in user-friendly software development.

It’s taken a while for browsers to catch up with the delights of undo. Of course, the need for an undo command only really became pressing once tabbed browsing appeared on the scene.

Before that, you could always return to a site during a session using the Back button, or from session to session by using the browser’s history cache.

Once we gained the ability to view multiple sites concurrently using tabs, the Back button was no longer sufficient. With multiple sites open, it’s all too easy to close one of those tabs and then realize you need that site open after all.

Media Companies Reach Copyright Pact

Media companies including Viacom, Microsoft Corp., News Corp.’s Fox and MySpace units and others have agreed to guidelines aimed at protecting copyrights online, a source familiar with the matter said this morning.

Google Inc, which faces a $1 billion copyright infringement suit filed by Viacom, is absent from the list of companies, but is currently in talks to possibly join.

The agreement is set to be disclosed today, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources.

The principles include using technology to eliminate copyright-infringing content uploaded by users to Web sites and blocking any material before it is publicly accessible, the source confirmed.

Google this week demonstrated new technology that allow content owners automate the identification of copyrighted material on its YouTube online video service.

The technology does not yet allow the blocking of copyrighted content from being uploaded.