Because it is highly infectious, there is a high chance that it may merged with another flu virus that is deadlier but has low infection rate (think H5N1 - chicken flu, or SARS) and become a super virus that will wipe half of the earth. Or it could just get mutated and become something that is much more dangerous.

IIRC, they have their own patch for better font display, but not the technology patented by MS and Apple (Cleartype).

I got 2^6 too, but I wonder if it is correct. 2^6=64, but the achievement system was implemented in April 1st, that mean we can get maximum 45 days read in a row. Well, maybe they have already counted before that.

Quote from the article:
"""
        * The document is the most important UI element.
        * Don't show the user what he/she doesn't need at the moment (context sensitivity).
        * Don't focus on a single UI element (i.e. Ribbon, Menus, Tabs) - use a hybrid of elements so that the information is displayed in the most appropriate way.
"""

I like their idea of having more vertical bar, as the wide screen form is being widely adopted, it will be a better way to use our screen real estate.

So .NET can have every programming paradigms?

You can alway download and remove those code if you are paranoid, i'm sure there are people who did that already.

I would like to call it bullshit myself (it took me two hours trying to fix it before decided to wipe out every .exe files on the disk). And I will do a test to see if it is true the next time I got my hand on a windows box.

Windows does autorun on IDE driver partitions, and even worse.
  Long ago I have to deal with a chinese malware installed on my uncle computer. After clearing all the autorun files on the HDD, I formatted the C driver and then install windows on it (god, I hate it when I have to do so), reboot, install the drivers, everything went smoothly. But *just* after the next reboot, the computer is infected with that malware again.

Well, you can, depend on the type of material tested though.

None. Most people there will just pirate anyway. Well, MS still can make some cashes by pre-installed it in people computer.

Maybe you should try Arch? It use binary package but also has port like build system if you need to build your customized package (abs)

Er, really? I still seeing people complaining about using KDE with nvidia driver on nvnews forum. I am using an nvidia card and planning to switch to KDE 4.3 when it is out so I need to know if it will work properly or not.

Xfce is using GTK+ too, just not GNOME library and service (bonobo or something like that)