I used OpenOffice for 7 years of college and had zero issues, and probably about 75% of submission had to be in electronic form. What do you use Word for that you can't use Wordpad.exe for? Why can't you do the formatting in Mediawiki and then export to PDF?

On my school campus

Ok, it's pretty easy to see why you don't understand why email is still (unfortunately) relevant, but give it a couple years in a corporate or medium business; none of the services you mention have even half the features of email.

Word is still instruemental

Oh if only you had used Word (or Firefox, or OpenOffice) to compose this message it would have been spell checked!

I mean, I guess that's how we all feel about Windows ME. Right? Totally.

What? What if they do some kind of heavy duty number crunching and he's talking about his Beowulf cluster? What if they're a small, high-priced CGI company and they have three render farms of 10 boxes each and ten regular servers? What if they're a web hosting company and those are the hosts?

I live in Baltimore, and I'm about to hop on I-83 to get to work, which has a 40mph minimum and a 50 mph maximum. As in there are signs that say "Minimum speed 40mph"

Maybe unheard of to you. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123484.aspx I count well over 100 group policy settings that can be applied through Activesync to a Windows Mobile 6.1 device. Some of these actually do work on an iPhone as well, such as the password and phone lock policies.

Windows Mobile + Exchange 2003/2007 have had this functionality since 2005 at the release of Exchange 2003 SP2 http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?familyid=535BEF85-3096-45F8-AA43-60F1F58B3C40&displaylang=en. It even works on an iPhone. I'd hardly call 2005 "recent" in the IT world.

Uh... because when you're getting wrecked by those goddamn green hopping jerk bug things, you can't press "start," type in "Justin Bailey," kill them, turn the cheat off and then continue on.

Correct, it does not count. You can only activate it at the very beginning of the game, just like with Justin Bailey; you can't turn it on, pass a hard part, and then turn it off. That's what the summary is talking about.

You're missing the point, which is that whether or not you're connected to the VPN, chances are good that your browser stores some credential information. If you're on a LAN that's the same subnet as your VPN endpoint, then once you disconnect, a malicious local user would be able to coax your browser to give up cookies about the VPN-accessed pages. Your browser uses IP addresses to associate a cookie with a host, which is what makes this possible, and explains why the certificate model of HTTPS on the corporate Intranet foils this attack.

First of all, any good VPN client allows the admin to prevent that (i.e., I don't consider the built in Windows PPTP client to be an example of a "good client"). However, that being said, for almost any circumstance I'm pretty confident the number of users who would know to do that would be 1%.

Yes but does it run on a beow... oh. Sweet.

I think the unspoken point of the article you seem to be missing is that, out of the meltdown of the global finanacial infrastructure, maybe this is not the time to screw up something that is actually doing fine the way it is.

Let's continue this conversation in a parallel universe, where the Internet did not arise out of US government and educational institutions.

Watchguard's been doing that since 1996! I really do like the Firebox Core after using it for a year or two, but man, you can tell that they've taken work from multiple unrelated development projects and strung them all together with a "manager" that simply launches bulky, inconsistently designed apps which then in turn launch more inconsistent smaller apps. Great feature set and very fast, though, once you get past the decent learning curve and annoying support contracts.