2013 will be the year of Bitcoin on the desktop!

(Just imagine: all those juicy unencrypted wallet.dat files, sitting on Windows machines on the Internet. Why phish when you can just steal directly?)

x86 will linger like COBOL or Java or Win32.

Steam is already an effective and popular app store on Windows. And they hope to become the proprietary app store on Linux. That's why Valve is so dead against Windows 8 - Microsoft could take away their status as the app store.

Yes. It is important to this story that Imran Khan is still hugely famous in the Commonwealth, i.e. the cricket-playing countries.

Players in Australia are actually required to be code-free, or easily made code-free.

Choice is really highly respected in Australia. This makes this an extremely mainstream issue, not just of geek interest.

Its special trick appears to be a version of Office built in.

That is all.

I can WFH whenever I need to, which is quite often (chronically ill partner). I find myself actually wanting to get into the office on Mondays because the quiet times to get on with stuff are good, but sometimes you really need to deal with people face to face to work stuff out at high bandwidth.

i.e. Meeting Day is a useful idea.

None of whom own a touchscreen.

Both users are thrilled!

(They are the two remaining developers.)

Do they have even one developer who actually owns a touchscreen device yet?

The OpenJDK teams at Debian (who also do Ubuntu) and Red Hat are good people to notify as well. Unlike Oracle, they won't sit on bugs.

The antivirus researchers all talk to each other (and despise their marketing departments), so the actual quality of virus-checking is about the same between all antiviruses. So the difference is entirely in how much it annoys you.

I generally put ClamWin on Windows boxes I have the misfortune to have to set up.

This is the case for installing AdBlock Plus.