That's complete bullshit. This is how science is (and should) be conducted. It's called peer review and it is one of the most important safeguards of the scientific method. Without thorough and ruthless peer review, people are free to simply make outrageous claims and expect to be believed. That's how religion works.

Come on, editors. Grammar is a set of simple rules.

When you're being a pedant, it's really best to check your spelling.

Via the magic of the EU, that's exactly what happens, isn't it. The Frenchman pays his taxes to the French government, who then give it away to the EU, who then donate it to the poorer governments, such as Poland.

Isn't this exactly what just happened recently with the UK advertising standards agency upholding a complaint about an XBox advert using PS3 footage?

Office is critical and remains a strong product for them. Open Office / Star Office never really gained much market share, but it is looming irrelevance of the desktop that threatens office. Online apps (whether Google's or any other) are the threat here, and once again, MS has been slow to react.

Add to this their lack of success in pushing into the Enterprise Server market. .NET never had the impact they hoped. J2EE is still king of the application servers. SQL Server has made very little impact on the DB market. Oracle is King there. Windows Server has made few dents in the domination of UNIX. Solaris is still a force to be reckoned with. Open source has made far more impact in these areas - My SQL, PHP, Linux, but for the bigger enterprises, Larry's Empire is now becoming dangerously dominant, whilst Ballmer is largely an irrelevance and McNeely has gone completely. No doubt who won the battle of the CEOs.

Agreed. Server development is what matters in the enterprise and Windows is just a small piece of that pie. Various flavours of UNIX dominate.

It is sad. I find it really depressing to find the Oracle logos all over the Sun site and Java downloads. I guess that Sun were just too nice a company to prosper in the cut throat world of modern IT.

"I'm in charge of logical positivism and Bruce is in charge of the sheep dip." Sorry, couldn't resist.

What a load of cock!

I agree entirely that browser diversity is a good thing. The wider the variety of browsers available, the more necessary it is for them to comply with Open Standards. No browser with a minority market share can expect web developers to code to their non-standard behaviour.

That's a bit harsh. Someone's lost a child, here. What's needed here is publicity to help others avoid this mistake and, ideally, a ban on firearms in domestic environments.

Careful.Hollywood will try to ban dd, next.

Is it just Google that you want to stand up to the Chinese, or should the rest of the businesses in the world follow suit? Indeed, should our governments "show a little spine"? Get into the real world.