That isn't what Mozilla was complaining about. What Mozilla was complaining about was that IE8 was being delivered as an automatic update, then when it prompts the user whether to use express or custom settings the user of course would deem it just an update and would of course select express not realising it sets IE as the default.

The reason why it's acceptable that Firefox, Opera etc does this is because the user chose to download the browser. However, since MS pushed IE8 as a critical update through their automatic update service the user doesn't really have much choice. I accept the set as default using express if the user downloads IE8 as a separate download. But through an automatic update? No.

So, anyone care to explain how well this goes up against something like the Rapatronic cameras? Obviously you're not limited to just one shot like the rapatronic.

I've a few questions, if the data centre is built in the desert don't you have a number of issues?

* Latency, if you have all your data centre's located in essentially a single part of the USA (lets ignore the rest of the world for this.. regardless that there are no deserts in Europe for example) won't that increase latency quite a bit to the more further away places that want the search results?
* Bandwidth/redundancy, if you have all your eggs in one basket as it were aren't you going to have to pay extra to have lots of extra fibre laid down to be able to handle all that extra traffic? What about natural disasters, if you have all your data centres in a single location then surely you run the risk of things going pear shaped if it burns down, suffers earthquakes, aliens destroy the building etc.
* Cooling, because it's in the desert isn't a lot of the electricity that is generated going to be cooling not only the building because of the outside heat, but also the heat generated by the servers? Surely it makes more logical sense to build in a colder climate say further north and use hydroelectricity? (if you're talking of using exclusively non active polluting (and non radioactive) natural electricity solutions)

So by that reasoning Windows 7 has gotten diabetes and has had a foot or two chopped off?

That's an understatement, Apple could do with the competition. Whilst Safari is the best mobile browser at the moment it is extremely crash happy. More so on the 2.1 update.

I average 2 Safari crashes a day on my iphone.