Then kids may mistake Daleks for Ents.

I'm curious, in UK, do you Tea Partiers actually drink tea?

In the USA we call them "drones"

Kids will get to program a Dalek to make him more powerful.

"Look, my Dalek is now so powerful it writes my code for me!"

Wait, how do you know a Dalek is a "him"?

Dude, it's harder to hide your porn that way

Clippy...no way to turn him off

You can, but you'd have to go through the pod bay doors without a space helmet. I found that cheat tip on a black monolith found in the dumpster.

"Luke, use the Fork"

"Being a security company, we wanna keep our mistakes secure."

What, they haven't found a subtle and quiet way to sneak in like the N-S-A does?

If done right, such animations can be helpful to newbies, showing the relationship between the icon and the newly opened window (versus say a randomly popping message or spam). But after a while such "training wheels" get annoying and slow you down.

Linux back in the day looked like hell, but it worked.

Now it's reversed

When you open a new window, it flies out on to the screen...

The Ballmer "Chair" interface, eh?

Seriosouly, though, I hope there is an option to switch that animation off. I like quick response, and switched off the XP and Win7 animations on my PC. Please, don't take that away, Mr. Nadella.

and last 30 minutes on a charge.

Is there somewhere in Vegas I can bet on its failure? Finally my chance to get rich...

Or to start from the bottom as a manager who's studied essentially management

Oh Gawd, those are often the worse: idealistic, clueless about the domain, and experience-free

If you are making $80k a year, you should not have to bank $30k a year into savings in expectation of it spontaneously going to zero on a regular basis...

Welcome to IT: you get to do a high-dive off the fad board sometimes, but may land face first.