It does sound as though the primary blame has to be put at the Oregon's officials since Oregon was the lead on the project. The lead is always 100% responsible for the project, after the project failed they are trying to say "ohh, not my fault"... If the project was off the rails early on, they should have seen it -- regardless of communications and adjusted (and if Oracle was not doing it's job - fired them). Obviously Oregon wants to have a scapegoat, but apparently forgot to pay them for that service.

That would be IE6 - and if they are still running that version they are not supported by Microsoft properly since even Microsoft moved on long ago. The most popular (surprised me, I just assumed IE was still due to bundling) browser now is Chrome. Most browsers including IE are closer together in their use of standards so they are becoming interchangeable.

Well maybe I read it in combination with experience with Windows 8 UI which is "one" now. The problem is that even when talking about one kernel, that is already a problem from a properly designed system point of view. The kernel is a collection of services, not all services are required for all platforms.

The links have long disappeared due to DCMA takedowns.....

finally a use for facebook "like"

One code base in a well designed componentized system is ideal, but the last time the windows code was leaked it was a disaster area....

I have a large monitor and I sit 2 arms lengths away, but Microsoft in their wisdom thinks that the interface for that should lean towards touch. If they treat the small phone screen the same as a large screen interface, and that everyone is going to use touch interface - then you're not creating a usable platform for any since you are constantly making compromises. You can use the same operating system core, the same API, and make things interoperate without having the same interface. If I wrote a desktop app to have the same interface as my phone app - either my desktop app is wasting a lot of real-estate and making inefficient use of resources - or I am making it very difficult on the phone user since he is constantly zooming in and out to fill in a bloody form...... the operating system interface is no different.

They have a long way to go, one user interface for all idioms is kinda stupid..... that is why they are getting all the bad press with Windows 8.

I find it funny that many "westerners" here say that they eat spicy chilies and that somehow equates into a spicy dish. I doubt people here just pull a 100,000 scoville chili and eat it directly, it is usually diluted in a dish and/or the spiciness cooked out. Indians I know will often tell me that they eat spicy foods, and have no problem with it. I once made a co-worker a papaya salad (Som Tam) with the average spiciness (small handful of thai chilies) thrown into the salad because he said that he ate spicy all the time and had no problems with any dish (this is a typical dish, typical spiciness in Thailand)...... he ate a little then went running to the kitchen to try and cool off his pallet.... The dish that I made for the co-worker would be spicy for me, but nicely so.... Spiciness is affected by what it is eaten with, the quantity, if it is cooked into a sauce, etc. Eat a raw thai chili by itself, and it will make me sweat.... eat it with a small piece of bbq sausage (isan sausage) and the spiciness is reduced considerably.

First meal of the day usually starts with Pat Grapow Neua (Stir Fried Beef with Holy Basil and Chilies) -- with around 7+ Thai Chilies (Scoville 90,000) just to start the day...... [topped with a fried egg on the rice]..... a pretty popular Thai Dish served at streetside "made to order" places. If you walk by someone making it after they add the chilies it is like being hit by a wall of mace :p