mostly fairly minor consequences of the vast majority of non-mission critical computers thinking it's the wrong date

Taken individually and in isolation, it is true that the problem with many such systems is trivial. Howevr many of these trivial systems feed into or from other trivial systems and this makes the system viewed as a whole rather complex. It is extremely difficult to predict the outcome of even a simple looking system (see Conway's game of life for example) so there was no telling what would or could happen with all of these non-critical systems suddenly hitting faulty data. As close to feasibly possible to 'all of it' had to be fixed because otherwise there would be too many unknowns that could come back to bite us later.

When clocks struck midnight on January 1st and the dreaded Y2K bug turned out to be nothing but a mild irritant, it proved once again that the experts often don’t know what the heck they’re talking about.

No. The Experts were the ones working many, many hours in the preceding years fixing and updating things so that when the clock did turn, the problems were - for the main - no longer present. A job damned well done and the people fixing it should be praised, not ridiculed.

The people who don't know what the heck they were talking about are the media types like this guy who are quick to jump on catastrophic failures but rarely (if ever) give due praise when things are planned and done right. "Everything's fine" doesn't make good headlines for these people.

If they don't want to play by the rules, we won't miss them. If they do, then they will find a great resource and profit from mutual cooperation.

I've been using multiple screens for years, though mostly under Ubuntu on nVidia cards. I can simply drag windows from one screen to another - not exactly difficult. Maximised windows will even resize themselves as my tow monitors do not have the same resolution.

Given that, if you really waanted keyboard control...

alt-space, down arrow, down arrow (to un-maximise), return
then

alt-space, down arrow, down arrow, down arrow (move)

use arrow keys to move window to wherever on your desktop you want it.

... as will Symphony.

Symphony (as you would expect) was able to read LWP files a lot earlier than OO.o was able to (I have only just noticed that Version 3.0 can do so). I basically used to use Symphony as a LWP > ODF converter.

You can already play a large number of A list games 'on Linux' right now!

Go and buy yourself a PS3 and some games.
Buy a TV card for your computer and plug it in and configure it under Linux.
Connect the PS3's video output to the TV card.
Insert a game into the PS3 and turn it on.
Fire up a TV viewer software on your Linux box.

Congratulations! You are now just as much playing a game in Linux as you would be if OnLive had a Linux client an d you used that.

Exactly, if I bought a coffee for 99c (let's ignore the facts that I live in the UK and don't like coffee for the moment) and the coffee was undrinkable for whatever reason, I would expect a refund or fresh cup.

It works now - but it definitely didn't about an hour ago (after you posted that). The homepage always worked, but actually using it resulted in an error.

The difference being that microwaves suffer wear and tear and can develop a fault after five years.

This is software, the fault was there when it was purchased.

Symphony does read Word Pro files - I use it here for that very purpose. It doesn't do it perfectly though and sometimes loses fancy designed page headers and stuff.

It gets the main content fine though, which is what matters to me.

I will agree that it should not be in a list of Open Source products though and that apart from Word Pro importing, I don't use it for anything else. The interface is dire and slooooow.

After taking numerous readings of the tastes of the audience, he will produce a book that is almost, but not-quite entirely unlike HHGTTG.

GO STICK YOUR HEAD IN A PIG.