You're the one that brought race into it..."old, white male"

that explains the complete lack of respect and manners in the last few generations then

You do realize this article is just "speculation" by a 3rd party? There are no statements from MS saying any of what the article is implying.

Umm, it's an article by a 3rd party, it's not written by Microsoft, Windows 8 isn't released. Turn down your anti-MS hate.

Exactly, I have quite a few Intel coolers laying around. What do you do with a big chunk of aluminum and copper? I use liquid cooling on my extreme chips.

From TFA: "Intel’s next consumer CPUs" Since when is a Xeon considered a consumer CPU?

maybe take a look at the apple forums link? First page, 10 users reporting the problem, not one.

How is this different from any company? If you're using the company's computer, email, etc, don't expect any privacy. Especially if you get sued. Your "private" company emails will be read by attorneys fresh out of law school doing document review in a big conference room. Most likely, laughing at the stupidity of the people who's email they're reading.

You, sir, are amazing! You only needed 2 data points to generalize a population of 310+ million people.

Apple crushed the GEM OS a long time ago by threatening to sue Digital Research. Hmm, what's Apple doing to HTC now? What about Samsung? How about Motorola?

There is no source, or citation. BG has said he never said that in various interviews since the '90s.

Sounds like a PEBKAC issue. I've got dozens of installations of Windows 7 on older Dell D620 and D630 notebooks with only 2GB of RAM and onboard Intel Video.

Virtual PC does not emulate the CPU, the Windows version never has, only the Mac version did CPU emulation.

It only has to happen ONCE to YOU for it to a real big PITA.

lacking in education for not knowing the details of a discredited medical system? Sorry, I guess I'm also lacking in education for not knowing the exact steps for performing an Aztec human sacrifice to please the gods.