I knew there would be at least one comment downplaying this story.

This is a tiny move on Google's part with huge ramifications.

Android has been a huge success, I read that it has something like 80% of the market share of mobile devices, but that statistic was probably made up.

When Grandma opens an email on her tablet thing that her IT grandson told her to get so that he could stop supporting her Windows computer, she's going to be opening the word attachment using Google software - and then possibly editing it and sending it back - using Google software.

Microsoft gets nothing, they are removed from the loop.

The default office suite on Android could be as important as the default web browser on Windows - and we know what a ruckus that caused.

For a lot of these mega-successful people, it's not the beauty of the code, or the maintainabilty of it. It's having the idea that software can do something, that this something is valuable and can be used as an engine drive profits, and then getting there first. Making it as good as it can be comes much later, if ever. Seemingly not at all if you're Microsoft. Not being able to code doesn't mean that much.

Malicious, but malicious to WHOM? If they ever start blocking useful tools which "could" be used to break laws or otherwise do harm, that will be the end of Chrome.

*I move away from the Mic to choke on hydrocarbons.

Though it's interesting to see that with Tomb of the Cybermen, not everyone felt that way:

Those fans who were too young to have seen the black-and-white stories when they originally went out were generally disappointed, because they had unrealistic expectations and a lack of understanding of what TV shows in general, and Doctor Who in particular, were like in the 1960's.

Personally I love the early Doctor Who episodes, especially Tomb of the Cybermen, but I have to be honest that the quality of some of these early episodes is very hit and miss, and while some are great, classic pieces of television, others have really not aged well.

It's about time. Coca Cola merely sells sugar water.

Sure 2.0 seems like a total waste of money, but if history is any indication, Surface 3.1 will completely revolutionize computing, giving time back to users by crashing repeatedly and needing several minutes to reboot and run chkdsk.

Here's how to fix this: You quote, in total, the web page or article in question. Then, you *attribute* it to the url where you found it from, the date that you found it there, and the author/copyright holder. Now, it doesn't matter if the page changes or the site goes away. The content is preserved, the source is attributed. And, copyright troll lawyers aside, no one is harmed!

How is a $200 board a raspberry pi competitor?

A privacy-focused browser is fine as far as it goes, but the problem is more with the network transporting data insecurely, and on the server side, where you put your trust into faceless entities that have their own interests at heart, not yours. So I don't see this helping much, if at all.

Where's Chris Hansen (or John Beard for the AD fans) when you need him?

If we consider Notch as a game designer, he doesn't have to finish the implementation to have done he job well. How was Minecraft harmed by his going hands off while it was in alpha? Do we really expect his next project to be as successful as the Minecraft phenomenon?

26*26*26*26 = 456976

That's basically half a million four letter combinations that companies are able to choose from, all nimbly-bimbly. Yet these assholes decide to use an existing term and mutilate the wikipedia page that was around for four and a half years because of their arrogance

And each edition will arrive 10 days later than he would have liked.

Wow, now I can finally figure out what I am interested in! I never had any way of knowing this stuff before.