I left Pandora because they insist on using Adobe Flash. I have eliminated Flash from all my systems due to the constant security issues with it. Pandora is obsolete and does not play on any of my systems. I have moved on to other platforms that don't jepardize my systems.

Hahaha!!! Really! When Windows 10 rapes your machine it auto uninstalls quite a few programs. Programs that Micro$haft doesn't want on your machine. When you try to rollback, these programs do not get reinstalled. In some cases such as Microsoft's own Media Center, once its been removed, its been removed forever.

Bought my Nexus phone directly from Google. No crapware, timely updates, and very decent hardware at a very decent price.

The AMA is no friend of the doctor. It has consistently sold out the doctor and hasn't reflected their interests for many years. They have rolled over time and time again, and the individual physician has been consistently hurt. They have supported and allowed laws to pass that pretty much makes it illegal for the doctor to have any say in what happens to them. The recent push to automate and force doctors to use EMRs is nothing but an attempt to help insurance carriers. EMRs do nothing to improve patient care or help doctors improve their business. Insurance carriers can and do perform audits at ONE TENTH the costs before the use of EMRs. Because of the AMA, there has been a wholesale transfer of wealth from the doctors to the insurance carriers. It is fair to say that the AMA has been bought lock, stock and barrel by the insurance carriers.

I guess when a vendor delivers their latest device with XP installed and then proceeds to tell you that you CANNOT install the latest updates, the invisible hand is still guiding the market. Had this situation happen within the last 6 months. The doctor had to have this particular instrument, yet the vendor REFUSED to deliver it with a modern supported OS and prevented us from taking steps to secure the out of date XP OS. Until there are regulations forbidding vendors from selling unsecured configuration, the situation will not improve.

Anything in healthcare. Many insurance portals for doctors require IE. They will not work with Firefox or Chrome. Also, 99% of all medical instruments, use some version of Windows. In both cases, vendors are EXTREMELY anti Linux.

Keep repeating this garbage. DOCX files are NOT open and fully documented. If you look at the spec there are many places that isays "format like Word97 or Word2003" What the hell does that mean? The actual format should be specified in detailed form. Microsoft schemed, bribed and extorted its way into an open specification rating. Name me just ONE vendor that is able to correctly read and write these DOCX files 100% of the time that is not Microsoft. That's the definition of an open specification. ANYBODY can read the specification and create equivalent software that will properly read and write the files. The very fact that no one else has been able to do this for DOCX files means exactly that the spec is NOT open. Yes, there are folks who have been able to reverse engineer and use the specification to get 80% of the way there. 100% of the way there, is the only proof that the specification is open just like the ODF formats.

I guess you have not be looking at the news. A bank robber was idententified using facial recognition. Such systems are getting better and better each day and function in real time. Put such a system in the middle, capture, render and identify people in show and 30 seconds after show starts screw around with performance. If you think this is science fiction, think again. This is here and now. Abolishment of net-neutrality is just another way to tax and control us so that we can offer no resistance to corporate domination.

I have a customer who is currently with Time Warner Cable and their speeds have gone down significantly over the last 6 months. They used to be able to access web sites with split-second response times. Now the average is at least 5 seconds before a web page comes up. I have placed numerous support calls, they come out and run their own hosted speed test which claims they are meeting speeds. They then leave saying there is nothing wrong, yet browsing is almost unusable. I believe they have QoS turned on so that their own speed tests run fine, yet the overall browsing experience is significantly worse. If they are playing these games now, what will happen when net-neutrality is eventually abolished by these big souless corporations?

I have a customer who is currently with Time Warner Cable and their speeds have gone down significantly over the last 6 months. They used to be able to access web sites with split-second response times. Now the average is at least 5 seconds before a web page comes up. I have placed numerous support calls, they come out and run their own hosted speed test which claims they are meeting speeds. They then leave saying there is nothing wrong, yet browsing is almost unusable. I believe they have QoS turned on so that their own speed tests run fine, yet the overall browsing experience is significantly worse. If they are playing these games now, what will happen when net-neutrality is eventually abolished by these big souless corporations?

Microsoft's quality assurance in testing the updates is junk. Just this year, I've had numerous situations where an update borked my customer's machines including one where it totally crashed a server. Automatic updates is no solution and in many cases is deadlier than the original problem.

What are you talking about? Android is fully open. I don't need to install from Google Play. In fact, I install software from other marketplaces including F-Droid. You can even set up your own web site and with one setting be able to install software from it. You don't need to pay Google a 30% cut. It is only M$ that has the MOST restrictive store for BOTH the phone model and for the desktop model. Developing and deploying metro apps for Windows 8.1 is the most frustrating experience there is if you don't want to pay the M$ 30% tax.

I guess you really haven't use this. Surface is nothing but a steaming pile of turds. Totally locked down, no alternative browser, only IE, and very little software available. And definitely no open source programs allowed. Just to prove to myself it was M$ that was artificially restricting this machine, I applied the jailbreak that's available. Using Visual Studio, in no time I had several open source utilities compiled and running. I have an iPad, an Android tablet and a Surface, an I can tell you I am the most productive with the Android tablet. The Microsoft Office requirement that M$ shills keep bringing up is nothing but a red herring. I use open docs format and ALL of my office needs are met with alternative products.

Their thought process to receive such high pay is that somehow they are special and provide high value that they are worth it. Meanwhile, the staff who are tasked with executing the CEO's vision are not receiving such rewards. If the CEO is that good and according to intolerant Republicans that that a rising tide raises all boats, then shouldn't their staff's lot in life also be better? Shouldn't the staff's pay also show the fruits of a successful strategy which they had a part in? Without a successful execution a winning vision is meaningless. So if companies want to pay millions to a CEO because "he is worth it", then they should raise the staff pay. This keeps the pay ratio in line, and more indicative if the CEO's real value.

I guess you haven't really been paying attention. If you want to see want their future Windows direction, just look at their Surface RT/2 approach has been. It's already is an extremely locked down environment. No sideloading, no alternative web browsers, no non-Microsoft app stores, no Java, no VPN, no open source programs, etc. All your apps must come from a 30% Microsoft taxed store. Windows 8 is just the initial phase down that road. Microsoft has already announced that in the next version of Windows they are taking steps to reduce the visibility of the desktop. They already foist secure boot and TPM2 on desktop users. Do you really believe that it's for the benefit of general desktop users? Or are these moves intended to place the market in a place where at some future time they lock down the desktop just like their Surface/ARM products?

The Microsoft apologists are saying Windows 8 isn't bad because there is sideloading. But when you investigate further, there only is sideloading when you have joined a domain. And you must pay exorbitant fees for that privilege. And you must be running the enterprise edition version of Windows for it to really matter. There is NO sideloading for that single desktop. And this is the current Windows 8. As far as I'm concerned, if you want to develop Metro applications, then you really have no other option than pay M$ their 30% tax. All this really does is make me think twice of even creating a Metro version of my program. And if I do I am going to price it much more expensive on M$ store. And if you don't believe me, just compare the cost of the same app on both Google store and M$ store. When you do find that an app has been ported over, it is on the order of over 500% more expensive on the M$ store.

Yes, for NOW you can still load Win32 application on Win8. But that environment is no longer being actively developed. M$ has pretty much discontinued a whole slew of technologies, including .NET, WPF, Silverlight, and yes, even Win32 for a very incomplete WinRT environment. With Win8, M$ has been much begun the process of locking down the desktop into a walled off garden, for which only they control the keys to, and if you want entry you must pay an extremely high price to enter.