I'd love to check one out. But I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for something based on some greasy tech blog reviews and a few press shots. As there's no MS store within 2 hours of me, there's very little chance I'll be able to buy one. HOWEVER, if MS could put these on the shelves at Best Buy, FutureShop (I'm in Canada, eh) or London Drugs, I'd happily fondle it and maybe even buy it.

Also...while I'm sure MS would love to sell a bajillion of them, I understand these were developed as a way for MS to show it's hardware partners a thing or two about product design or something. I doubt they expected the RT models especially to fly off the shelves.

My wife really wants a Surface Pro, however, and what she wants she usually gets.

You'd be surprised to learn what actual Hollywood props are made of. Also, "What a piece of junk!"

...and she can yell to you in the basement when dinner's ready, as usual. :-)

Neckbeards the world over will never stop bitching and complaining about Microsoft, no matter what they do or don't do.

The interface isn't really all that different. There are changes, but the core desktop experience is there. The Metro/whatever it's called UI is definitely different - and designed to be touch friendly where the desktop isn't.

Take a deep breath, relax and commit to a few minutes of poking around Win 8 with an open mind and you'll quickly be just as productive as before. Learning new things in IT is job security. Resisting change is a great way to be out of a job.

Finally, a computer IS a toy for a three-year-old. It is for mine. It's also a tool to get work done. I'm sure MS is well aware of these facts, which is why they have created MS Office in the first place. My three-year-old hasn't gone there just yet though.

I used three cheap-o digital photo frames (that my wife and I received over the years as gifts) for the displays in a jet cockpit set piece for a short film I made. They worked great - the slideshow feature worked well to display updating info on the tactical display, etc. The main display was an old IBM 17" LCD monitor I had in my closet. They weren't used to cure science or find alien intelligence, but they looked great in the scene.

That's how they do it at the First Citywide Change Bank....

He's not writing a doctoral thesis. Merely posting online. Lighten up, Francis.

I just hope it doesn't end up looking like a huge bulls-eye.

All he's saying (Romney) is that they just need to stop buying the base model airplanes and get the ones with power windows - like in her Caddy. I wouldn't be surprised if the Space Policy Paper has power space windows as a requirement, and heated leather. We all know that if the Challenger and Columbia shuttles would have had OnStar, there would have been no loss of life.

I'm not up on this stuff, but is there a way to "require" the browser makers to conform to the W3C standards? Or is it strictly voluntary in so much as they want to appeal to as many people as possible? Is the only "punishment" getting lambasted by Web developers and seeing a down-tick in usage?

"Niggers" run Apple? Oh boy, there's a new one. Stupid racism aside, had they seen the Executive Profiles page? http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/

You go girl!

+1 :-)

You gotta love that name.

I suppose it's possible, but I don't see that happening. They - the manufacturers - may bitch and whine about MS building their own hardware but they should just shut up and focus on besting MS's efforts. Linux is great and all, but it doesn't have the "cool/shine/duh" of Apple nor is it the "standard" that is Microsoft. Until there is Photoshop for Linux (native, not some Wine kludge (or the Gimp)) plus a crowded "Linux" section at GameStop, Linux just won't rate. Recall the Linux on netbook failure for evidence.