Great job reading the article... "The service for Fedora and Ubuntu Desktop is free of charge. For other distributions, the subscription fee starts at $3.95 per system a month, after a 30-day free trial."

RTFA. Or even the stub. "Modern computers go too fast." It's not just about Operating System, it's also about hardware.

Like Mazeoid?

[citation needed]

A TLDN, duh.

It's a TLDN, duh.

.Net tends to have a good performance. So far our apps have only been bottlenecked by the data storage backend used. Initially, we had used SQLCE because it can encrypt the entire DB easily, but this takes performance hits like SQLite, when you reach approx. 30,000 records in a table, it crawls. We have since migrated to SQLExpress and use per-field encryption, there is a considerable performance improvement. Like Java, C# has excellent garbage collection.

I think this area is mixed depending on the group. With the advent of Windows Vista and Windows 7, I foresee a much larger adoption of C# for app development. But one also has to consider the problem deploying a commercially-available software in C#. C#, at least in .Net, doesn't really fully compile, it packages (not unlike Mac's .app files). And unless you employ a source obfuscator, the entire source code and code logic is available simply by "unzipping" the .dlls. My suggestion to Microsoft is either allow a full binary compile in WPF/.Net, or build the obfuscator into VS as it is currently a real pain to employ.

On the one hand, you are right in not seeing much PHP in enterprise. However, your assessment of not seeing LAMP much in enterprise is bogus. The difference being most enterprise LAMP models are Perl or Python for the P, not PHP. And still others use Ruby. And many, many are hybrid models. Google, for instance, uses a lot of Python on their servers, but for many of their web pages they use PHP. Google is not an Enterprise? Yahoo uses PHP extensively, is not an Enterprise? Gag where you want, but get your info straight. Now, I like C#, and so do many developers I know. But I, and many of those developers, strongly dislike ASP.Net. Where I work (yes, in the "industry") we do both app and web development. We use both LAMP and .Net extensively, depending on the case scenario. And I know many, many developers whose employers use the similar deployments. And we have "real jobs".

Acer's spin of Linpus is horrible.

I use WPA2 at home on Arch, Moblin and Debian, works like a charm.

iTunes runs on Windows, but it would be very Apple to put features in the Mac iTunes and exclude them from the Windows one.

Linux is desktop material to a particular type of desktop user, just as ChromeOS will most likely be marketed as a niche, low cost product. I think one should not associate the term "netbook" with ChromeOS. "Web Tablet" is more appropriate.

Price. No HDD and the ability to streamline components because it only does certain things cuts cost, which in turn cuts price. I can see people buying a "Web Tablet" that they already know all they intend to do with it is just what ChromeOS does, and then they have a normal computer for the real work. It's actually closer to the original "idea" of a netbook. A simple, inexpensive booklet that just does the internet.

Unless of course that taste is like chicken.