My buddy's mother has never upgraded her computer from Windows 3.1 because she doesn't want to give up her games she has for it. I hadn't seen one of these since my Atari 600XL days...it was amazing seeing this bit of history operating, and it was blindingly fast! If they do this "only 2 apps" thing, then I smell fail, and plenty of it!

Was he an asshole? If he was, then it's great if you expose the fucking cocksucker for the fraud that he is! I worked as salesman for a high tech software company, the CEO was the biggest fucking asshole that the world has ever seen, and it took a year, and 3 months before I couldn't take anymore of his shit. Unfortunately, he didn't do anything like what your boss did. If he did, I'd be outing him for the piece of shit that he was...but that's me:-)

That was AWESOME!!!! Her little world just came crashing down around her! Good for you! Little frumpy authoritarian gets her hand smacked!

What's being overlooked here is that you are the owner of the paper, so it's your property. It sounds like she's one of those church lady type teachers, so all you have to do is stand up to her by simply saying NO! They don't know what to do with themselves after to stick it to them like that. Of course, I like taking down bureaucrats, but that's just me:-)

They must be purchasing it themselves from shell companies to make it look like it's viable. It's never been about winning, but making as much money off of this thing as possible. If they did win, then that would be a bonus, but only if the courts screwed up. He's a genius for being able to make it this long, and still get paid, but that's it. He's a total asshole, and a thief!

Mod me down, but I won't be installing Chrome for about year or so as every time that it installs it just stalls on importing my search settings. I've tried disabling my av, and everything else, and it still doesn't do it. Has anybody else had this problem? I was really excited about Chrome too...Firefox for me until they get the bugs cleared out of it.

AWESOMELY PUT!!!! OMG, you nailed it right on the proverbial head!!! GREAT READ!!! A friend of mine worked for a server company, and they took a look at what they were spending on software licenses, and hardware, and they came to the realization that they only need 1 computer that ran Microsoft Windows, and that was it out of all of their computers! So, they put on Ubuntu on everything else, and never looked back! Too funny, and they saved literally thousands, and thousands of dollars on licenses! Ummm, I guess the loser there is Microsoft...am I wrong?

Are you serious...no one really noticed it?????? LOL Too funny!!! And Too Awesome!!! Didn't they clue in to the name "OpenOffice?"

Have you ever worked for a company that has all this amazing technology, and then they hire people that have never used a computer in their life? I agree, they shouldn't be using office software, or even a computer, but then you're tasked to train them because they have to now use it for their jobs. For the average user they should know the basics, but for 12 o'clock flashers, which I've had to train many of them, it IS training them on how to do EVERYTHING. You have to admit that there are lot of people out there that really don't give 2 shits about trying to learn anything, and would much rather some knowledgeable techie type to tell them. For those people you can throw any sort of software at them even if they've used it all their lives, and they'd still come up, and ask you questions about the most rudimentary function for the software...people who have university degrees! My point to all of this is that no matter where you go if a computer is involved, then training will have to go along with it.

I really don't accept your statement that "OpenOffice wouldn't be free in accounting terms as there would be training and admin costs on top of that." Just about every office suite is basically the same, and it doesn't matter what software package that you give your people because there will "always" be training involved. The only difference here is that OpenOffice is free. I can't begin to tell you the amount of time that I had to spend training people on Microsoft Office on just the basic functions, so it wouldn't have mattered if it was OpenOffice, or Microsoft Office because most of people out there don't have a clue. Most of them don't even use any advanced features, so in reality they could just use Google Docs...but, I'd have to train them on that too;-)

I'm kind of getting the feeling that Intel is seeing the writing on the wall, and understanding that Linux isn't going away, and could quite possibly in the very near future take over a considerable amount of the desktop share especially for businesses that want to severely reduce their IT budgets.

"Call me naive, but I have faith in these companies that they made these changes for a reason, namely that they did tests and concluded it would improve the user experience, and that the bugs will be worked out in time." Okay, "Naive" you have faith in these companies that they've made a change for a reason??? Have you ever worked in the IT industry? Changes can be on the whim of 1 person regardless of what EVERYBODY tells he or she about their shiny new changes! OMG, I've seen terrible, horrible failures from one person wanting to create their little empire, and yet there's the people that are the experts advising, and even pleading with this person to not make the changes! Yyes you can't please everybody, but if you make a change without at least showing a preview to the people that use your product to get feedback---does that make sense??? It Makes Bloody Good Sense!!! They didn't even try! Then you're left with a mess as what's going on with iGoogle. They didn't make that big of a change, except put a tab to the left of everything, and now EVERYTHING is moved over to the right, and now all the settings, and all of the layouts, and all of the little widgets are having problems. So this affects literally millions of people, and that's not an understatement. Google wants you to use their products, and if you piss people off enough they'll go somewhere else, and that equals to lost revenue, and you can be your ass that they won't want that to happen! I'd love to be a fly on the wall to see the look on the loser that decided to make this "little" change to iGoogle when the brass comes by for a little visit, or if it was one of the brass that did it, then the look on their face as he or she is shown a significant drop in revenue from their "little" change! Too bloody funny! Are you getting it yet? The company is just a shell, and is made up with people, and people are the solution, but also the problem. Wake up, and see the big picture here!