So it was Lotus 1-2-3 that made the Apple ][ a success. Good to know after all these years.

Because no-one is going to believe that Windows goes up to 11.

sudo apt-get install malware

Easy-peasy.

When oh when is Microsoft going to get it through their heads that people DO NOT WANT to run Office on tablets, plug-in keyboard or no.

But it potentially COULD be perfect for a single app -- think nurses in hospitals tracking meds and blood pressures, people doing inventories, etc. One of these days, the right hardware is going to come out and people are going to start standardizing on it for simple data entry and checklist type operations.

Some people cannot sing in tune. Most people do not need to be taught to do this, they can just do it straight away. If you can't sing in tune there is little point trying to be a singer.

Tell that to Neil Young.

At this point, mag-stripe cards are almost as old-coot-technology as paper money. We can't have nice things (chip & pin) because American industry is too cheap to upgrade infrastructure.

Heh. Perhaps you're right.

What's a "chuuch"?

I remember the Z80 and 6502 instruction sets just fine.

Is this what Slashdot has become? An article about something that nobody gives a shit about with links to Wikipedia, Github, Twitter and Facebook?

LOL. You win the internets for today.

No, the phone is shown at exactly right angles, and they're right, the lens is photoshopped out. Meanwhile, it's 1 mm. What is that, the thickness of 2 business cards?

And why does it take 18 months to restore something that took a few weeks to build from scratch?

Spot on. Like "Zune" for example...

Microsoft has been killing off the Windows Phone brand name for years now -- by releasing Windows Phones.