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I think that MS needs to realize that one of the major reasons that standards exist is to PREVENT these things from happening. If there weren't so many inconsistencies, this would be markedly more difficult.

But what do I know about MS anyway? Who am I to comment on their ineptitudes? I use Linux.

I find GNOME to be a better reflection of big-brand windows managers "feel". KDE strikes me as having a clunky interface akin to (God forbid) the early Win32 designs. But, for my money (or lack thereof), I'll go with XFCE.

Government would be great, if it weren't for all of the politicians...

s/eBay/Microsoft/ The basic problem though is monopoly. Once an organization reaches critical mass, it has the ability to simply dwarf the competition. Look at how long it has taken to get Firefox to reach its current position, and alternate OS's still haven't managed to even dent the mega-corps. Fortunately things are never quite that bad on the internet, but the fundamental issues are the same.

I find that the best way to achieve regularity is with a high-fiber diet.

It is a particular contextual redefinition when dealing with arrays. apple a vs apples[] a;

While there are a number of things this gentleman has correct, there are also a number of dreadful errors here. Two examples: he subscribes to the belief that the Middle Ages were "poor fools" and he denies that Arithmetic is the derivative of physical problems -- one apple and one apple can be written 1a + 1a = 2a.