And they will still pay Microsoft royalties for Android. From the B&N press release (link from TFA):

Above emphasis mine.

Disagree. It is possible to construct a CryptoFunction C(t, k) such that exists k_0 != k where D(t, k_0) = t_0 != t, with t_0 "plaintext" that appears correct but is, in fact, wrong, by inserting specifically tailored "trash" data.

I would actually advise against installing those program to [C:\]Users\ instead create a parallel [C:\]Program Files[tag]\ folder with proper permissions set. Since those programs will still want to screw around with the registry as they get installed, (and all the uninstall information is in the global registry), it makes sense to let them be wiped and require a reinstall while preserving user data. With a manually created parallel Program Files folder (I usually use "(ul)" to tag it) you get all the advantages (and disadvantages for that matter) of not having to deal with UAC for these applications, but do not pollute the [C:\]Users\ folder.

As far as I can tell, all that needs to be done is to implement a system-wide Windows Media Foundation component to render Theora, and IE will pick it up if it sees a Theora video.The MSDN docs there are really bad, though; they will tell you how to build out the component itself, but nothing about how to get the system to pick it up. However, what I guess you can do is run regmon while installing the WebM MF components (which is all the installer does) and see how it publishes its MediaSource implementation out. Given that there are macros to create media type guids for arbitrary FOURCCs, it should not be impossible to register arbitrary filters to be used by this.

If you can stick a meta-tag into the HTML generated by the application there is a one-line fix that will trigger IE7 rendering/DOM mode in later versions of IE for backwards compatibility. Here is a good overview of how it works, and how to manually trigger it, overriding doctype sniffing.

Actually, Google provides a WebM fiter (tech preview) that IE can use to display WebM video. The Theora folks could do Theora as well that way.

Actually, if you configured it to work like it did in 95, then you should have no problems with it taking over your screen

Fair enough. I did not quite get that you were speaking about tablet Android specifically, though in retrospect I should have. The main thrust of my argument was about the silliness in taking the overall Android "activations" and taking that to mean that Android tablets are doing well in the market.

There are a lot of Android devices being activated, and OP was being stupid by conflating Android phones and Android tablets, but let's not be disingenuous in the opposite direction: Android tablets have not exactly set the world on fire yet. Android on tablets needs a bit more time to mature, and for efficient supply-chains to be built by the various manufacturers.