Except you can't use it for commercial implementations. You have to pay Oracle if you want to create a product based on it, which is how Larry gets his money.

So buy LEDs.

Microsoft stated with Windows 8 that they'd be moving to a far faster release cadence. What's with the surprise? The version number change... or? The title says it all - Windows 8 was released a year ago, windows 8.1 3 months ago. If they're going to get Windows 9 out the door anytime soon to follow the faster release cadence they'd HAVE to be working on it already. They probably started the second that Windows 8 shipped. Since everyone here appears to have a ridiculously short memory, let me remind you what was stated at Build 2013:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57591154-75/microsoft-moves-from-short-twitch-to-rapid-release-at-build-2013/

God the irony of a company who makes 90+ % of their revenue from advertising not being able to market ANY of their own products for shit.

*Computers are both. Depending on form factor, the tablet just might be a more convenient tool for consumption.

Seriously, can we stop with "the PC is going away" bullshit? The PC isn't going away, the reason sales are down is because PC's are *FAST ENOUGH* for most people for their daily jobs. As a *geek* I'm still running a 3 year old system and have no desire to upgrade. Nothing I do is slow on the system. Every game I run can run full screen on my 24" monitor with my GTX465's in SLI.

The #1 reason PC sales have slowed is that there is no demanding new technology forcing upgrades. In the past, every year a new system would drive me to want to upgrade because the speed boosts were noticeable and meaningful.

You could've looked at the shady history of OCZ and guessed what their failure rate would be. They had about the same success in the memory market in the 90's when they were first formed.

Since when? Every large software vendor I've ever worked with breaks their product up into modules and do standalone module testing and once those tests are passed add it to the main code line and do additional integration testing from there. Why on earth would you not test a software project of this size until it was completed in it's entirety? While there may be modules that you can't go live without, there absolutely shouldn't be a requirement to start from the ground up because one module failed testing... That's just bad software architecture. Healthcare.gov should be a prime example of a system that can be modularized. Hell, half the codebase is likely code to talk to external API's for the various government and private institutions they're sharing data with.

Welcome to the twitter generation! Timely news is better than accurate news after all! My brother in law who, while being nearly my age, appears to love the twittterverse literally told me he'd rather have inaccurate news instantly than accurate news he has to wait for. I don't even know what to say to that.

s/draconion/a violation of the 4th amendment

Although the current regime doesn't seem to think the 4th amendment is actually legitimate based on their current rack record.

Right, except for the part where it already exists in parts of this country, and is rampant in foreign countries. If your excuse is really that you think you shouldn't pay taxes on anything you don't personally benefit from you should probably look into finding citizenship elsewhere.

Good god I hope that's a bad attempt at trolling. People having even shittier service is an excuse to find 768k DSL acceptable? Again, richest nation in the world. If we spent 2% of our annual defense budget on building out a broadband network, it would be done in two years. Who pays for it? We do, with taxpayer dollars. Run back to a central aggregation point and give the US actual competition at the POP instead of granting monopolies on last-mile.

I'm whining about the fact that downloading an ISO is an overnight event. This is 2013 and we live in the richest nation in the world. There's absolutely no reason we shouldn't have had this entire country wired with fiber a decade ago. Wait, there is - we spend tens of billions of dollars dropping bombs on innocent people in the middle east only to spend billions more rebuilding their countries instead of spending it on infrastructure to improve our own country.

I don't really care if you use a scanner with windows XP, just don't fucking complain about problems with a decade old OS and expect the mfg to give you free support/code fixes as the OP apparently thinks should happen.

And that's Microsoft's problem, why? If you're dumb enough to have a core part of your business based on a product that you didn't either:
A. get guaranteed updates to new OS versions for your life of the product or
B. a promise of source code access should the vendor either go under or no longer wish to provide you binary updates

your business deserves to fail.