And not a single fuck was given that day.

I remember the conspiracy theorist in our office muttering 10 or so years ago about how he wasn't going to install Windows XP or buy a Pentium 4 because of "Trusted Computing" they would implement.

2.5 generations of OS and several CPU generations later...

"Samsung, with the help of Google, has been pushing out an over-the-air software update to make its phones worse."

The connotation of "worse" is that it was already bad to begin with.

Not only could no one else get it, they all moaned and complained "we never had to do that before" after he showed them.

So not only are they unwilling to adapt on their own, they seem to take umbrage at being shown something new.

Sure, there's nothing wrong with RIM. You could argue that. Just as you could argue with any company that's seen their market disappear from under them due to inaction. If things simply hadn't changed, they'd still be rolling along nicely.

But that's the problem: Things change.

Record-keeping, I suppose. And to make sure non-citizens don't take advantage of the system.

I just carry two as well.

A driver's licence, and a government-issued universal health insurance card.

Unlike the US, my government would rather us be healthy than shoot each other.

"Metro" seems to have a very loose definition within Microsoft.

It's like "Sandwich". Unless you explicitly define the types of bread, types of filling, types of condiments, and way of cutting it, each department is going to end up with their own very different sandwich. Ham and cheese on a bun, PB&J on white bread, possibly some pita wrap, and eventually some bizarre abomination from someone with no kitchen skills whatsoever.

The problem is that the corporation is too large and unwieldy to properly enforce the design goals throughout.

"Regardless of one's feelings on Microsoft, that company has consistently and continually tried to make their user interfaces as attractive and easy to use as is possible."

Are you talking about the same Microsoft I know?

Oh, right, they're "trying".

Now all those big companies will have to buy 220 more variations of each of their domains. Big bucks coming in for the registrars!

Then call the OS on phones and tablets something other than "Windows", because even though they share a similar codebase, it's not Windows.

I'd go beyond the annual software refresh and look at the annual hardware refresh.

Apple makes a killing release ONE new phone a year, whereas Nokia is used to releasing a dozen or so new phones a year.

I have all of that at my disposal and know how to use it, and I used to host my own photos... but honestly, I'd rather not anymore.

Maybe not a "Dead OS". An OS with a gun pointed at its temple, a finger on the trigger, and a bullet in one of the 6 chambers.

That happened to me in NYC. I bought something and made my payment, which included a Canadian penny, and the woman behind the counter had this expression on her face like I'd just dropped a dead rat on the counter. She asked me for a US penny, with a voice full of contempt.

Wow. I almost cost you $0.0001. Sorry 'bout that.