slackware -> red hat -> gentoo -> ubuntu -> suse -> ubuntu -> windows (desktop)/CentOS(servers)

Wow! A personal attack on him. That's your reply?. I thought better of you. And in case you think it's not... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_assassination and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem YES implying Linus only said something because he was paid by Transmeta is a personal attack which you used to deflect the question being presented to you.

You sound like Nokia was fine before this M$ deal. If that's really what you thought I think you should review their history. They had flubbed all the advantages they had held. What do you think they should have done? Got out a device based on Linux (which they already hadn't been able to make work for years, for whatever reason). Or do you think android would have saved them?

Nice. Either we agree with you or we are just poor deluded fools. Nice circular reasoning there!

I know I'm not a shill and I own an HTC Trophy. I responded to the orginal list and while I can't verify all the items that he listed; I can say that the original 121 have significant issues and flat out FALSE info in it. I know it's false because I bothered to check it on my phone, you should too.

You run away from something because you heard something bad about it on the interwebs 0_o? I smell B.S.

Actually they are not all true And I responded to around 50 of them.

That got a Score of 5 for informative... why?

You have a lot of problems in this list.
I dropped any of them that I couldn't verify or that I agreed with.


OS LIMITATIONS

1. No true multitasking for 3rd party apps - they re frozen in the background.
Misses the point. You can still run help tasks on a schedule just look at 3rd party live tiles they can update without having the app “frozen” in the background.
2. No Divx/Xvid video codec support. Zune will convert with loss of quality.
Maybe true but as mp3 showed a small loss doesn’t matter to the 99%
4. No micro-SD card support.
Redundant because of 3.
9. Limited to 800x480 resolution.
Why is this such a problem? Bullet point issue?
10. Voice search is hardwired to Bing.
So?
11. Cannot use any MP3 file as ringtone except those with strict constraints.
Angain big deal grab an app that takes care of it for you.
14. Cannot sync directly with Outlook without syncing to Cloud
So?
17. Images and photos cannot be renamed in the phone.
You also can’t run photoshop, why didn’t you list that?
20. Alarm clock cannot work when phone is turned off. All Nokia Symbian and Meego phones can do this.
This is actually important to who? It’s a smartphone not a dumbphone; charge it.
21. The idle screen is completely blank and cannot display time or notifications.
It shows all that and the play/ff/rw buttons.
22. Only photos allowed as email attachments, documents not allowed.
I just opened a .rtf attachment on my 7.5 phone so this is false.
26. Cannot use Bluetooth keyboard (no HID profile)
Maybe true. I have yet to ever see someone pull a Bluetooth keyboard out for their phone.
27. Cannot silence ringtone or alarm by flipping the phone.
Buy an htc. They come with an app to do that.

USABILITY ISSUES

30. No always visible status bar for battery life, signal strength, carrier ID, 2G/3G wi-fi, Bluetooth on.
The flip of this. The screen is not wasted with information you don’t need to always see.
31. Taskmanager has no option to shut down apps you donâ(TM)t want running in the background.
But you whined elsewhere that everything gets frozen when not active, so why do you care?
32. Search and Back button cannot be de-activated in apps or games and easily touched by accident which interrupt your user experience.
There are WP7 phones with real buttons for those. And they don’t have the same issue.
33. Lockscreen need to be activated to show missed call/sms notification.
So? Your whining that the power button needs to be pressed?
34. No way to close an app except pressing back button all the way to the first screen.
Again you already whined that it wasn’t running so why do you care?
39. Cannot close music player, can only pause. Music player on lockscreen will stay until you reboot. Be careful not to touch it in a meeting.
Personal problems are now WP7’s fault?
43. Search button in dialer does not search contacts for dialing, but search call history.
It also isn’t telepathic. Why don’t you ding it for not guessing what you want?
44. Cannot save draft sms messages.
I do all the time. Hit the windows button. Then start a “new” sms to the person and there’s your draft.
46. Cannot recognize phone numbers in sms or email to save or use as calling number.
I just tried it with an email. Both phone numbers and email addresses allow me to save after taping on them in the email.
53. If both wi-fi and data connection are available which one it chooses to use is unpredictable. User experiences donâ(TM)t agree with Microsoft that it âoetypicallyâ choose wi-fi over 3G.
This was an issue at launch, no longer.
FEATURE LIMITATIONS

62. No auto wallpaper changer and no app to do it.
Copy of 54
63. Totally locked down os means apps which interact directly with hardware not allowed. This excludes a whole range of useful apps
Give me a break what a lame whine. By locking it down I can’t do everything I want it’s a security trad off.
66. IE browser has no text reflow, no download capability and no offline reading.
The WEB browser on the phone doesn’t allow me to store a bunch of pages (the current page is stored) for offline viewing. Yeah and it doesn’t make coffee for me, cause it’s a phone!
68. Volume up/down buttons cannot be used to zoom in camera (sign of an immature os)
The buttons for raising and lowering the volume don’t zoom in is a “sign of an immature os” WOW
70. Cannot send or receive video by MMS.
My family does this all the time.
71. Office Mobile has much less features than 3rd party Office editors like SmartOffice, QuickOffice and Polaris. Shame on you, Microsoft!
And yet it is OFFICE not a hacked clone. The only shame is that MS isn’t putting Office on the other phones!
72. No native Google maps and Bing maps is useless for most countries outside U.S.
And why is this MS’ fault and not Google’s?
DUMB AND DUMBER

76. One volume control for all functions including media playback, ringtones, alarms, notifications.
How dumb unless you want to control the MASTER volume for your phone to the audio device.
77. Wi-fi disconnects when screen sleeps. If 3G is available background updates will use 3G and use up your data plan.
Again this was a release bug.
83. Oversized fonts for headings waste screen space and result in low information density
Just an opinion. Only thing dumb is that you think you have the only “right way”.

FEATURES EVEN DUMB PHONES HAVE BUT WP7.5 DOESNâ(TM)T

94. Cannot set custom sounds for different types of notifications.
Yes you can.
96. No silent option (no vibrate and no ring) from ringer menu. Need a trip to settings and another trip to revert.
Set it once and then when you goto 0 it will not vibrate or ring.
97. Cannot send/receive contact as a csv file.
So?
100. Cannot change alarm ring tone or use a MP3 file.
I change my alarm ringtone!

BONUS SHORTCOMINGS

103. Zune does not allow user to add or update podcasts directly from the phone
With 7.5 you can add podcasts straight from the phone.
104. Zune can only be installed if you have an internet connection
This is a PC issue not the phone.
105. Alarm does not revert to speaker if headphones are plugged in.
Again you know the one true right way... If my headphones are in I want my audio to play thru them!
107. OS does not reduce volume of text message alerts when using headphones
Why should it?
108. Generally force users to use IE, Bing and SkyDrive by shutting out competitors or tying OS features to them.
You are singling out MS even though Apple is way more locked down?
111. Mobile Office cannot edit Office 97-2003 documents which competing Office editors and WP7 can. Typical Microsoft strategy to force users to upgrade.
You can’t use the decade old format on the brand new phone. Those jerks!
114. No Silverlight support.
Um look us the developer specs.
117. Cannot be charged up when battery is completely dead. (Lumia specific)
Then don’t know WP7 by inflating your list with it.
119. No HDMI output (Lumia specific).
See 117
120. No data usage monitor and no app to do it.
You said this earlier.
121. No over the air (OTA) firmware upgrade. All upgrades must be via PC installed Zune.
They made a choice based on size. Fine that it could be better, but hardly a big issue.

It's not about his policies. It's about the timeline. The Judge had found for the DOJ. Then Mr. Bush came into office (and therefore the DOJ had a new boss). Then the DOJ asked the judge to just "slap MS on the wrist". It's not about policies but timing.

Personally I use my Alias just like my real name. And I don't try to hide the relationship between my real name and my aliases (I have had to add variants to keep it relatively unique). Growing up on Nueromancer and it's ilk I loved having an alias. Not to hide my evil deeds but more like a tattoo that said something about me.

Your operating under the assumption that your "rights" trump everything. Our constitution tries very hard to protect your freedoms. But it does recognize that your freedom isn't absolute. In fact, your freedom specifically disappears when you are endangering people. For instance, you can have your freedom stripped from you if you yell fire in a crowded place, for malicious reasons. The only difference here is that you are quietly endangering everyone else for your own benefit. Antivax is such a selfish position...

you forgot "and GET OFF my lawn!!!!!"

"An XBox 360 is the wrong tool for anything but gaming..."
Seriously you don't know what your taking about. I've spent years playing with front ends to put video on the TV. The best I've come across, if you don't need hd output, is an xbmc modded xbox. If you want hd use the 360. Go into your videos section and link it to your shared media. Or even better, use the 360 as an extender to your pc so you can play mkv etc.
Now the original post wanted streaming tv straight from the 360 and that, probably, makes the 360 a horrible choice.

left hand, right hand, gripping hand? NO it's not a porn reference!