Hardware alone doesn't defines functionality.

It's still a dumbed down laptop.

Given their liking to videogames, (or so I've heard) they might write some track for it if asked. Which would be absolutely awesome.

I have no idea why would anyone use Safari over Chrome or Opera. That said, I agree with you and it's a major point: IE9 is a good browser. It's just inferior. It's definitely better than Firefox nowadays.

The entire point about IE still plaguing the world is not that web developers need to support it, it's that old software can only run in that browser (and that means IE6). The new IE is actually pretty good, and this article is rubbish. Then again, it's /. MICROSOFT BASHING FRONT PAGE

I miss the BBS era. People were expected to post valuable content about the subjects at hand and not just randomly go to clubs and having such a great time that they spent all night taking photos to post them online. You know, back then, I actually thought that spending time in forums was productive. Nowadays it's literally the way I have to waste time.

Uh, I'm a (novice) Linux user, but to be fair, I've never experienced any of those problems. Resource hogging, slow system, more vulnerable to viruses and other malware, expensive and most of the time not good enough software, etc, but those seem to be (except the last one) hardware or screwed up install (or made up) problems. Particulary the last one seems pretty goddamn farfetched.

id has not been in any gradual decline. They still make millions with games that are admitedly tech demos. They are just as strong as ever, more sophisticated gamers with opinions might think otherwise and such opinions are completely valid, as Doom 3 and Rage were less than perfect, which is what people expected for some reason from people who have been almost 20 years making blank states for people to make stuff - mods, TC, other games. People whould have known that ever since Quake, which was an honest attempt at making a hugely moddable game, throwing in some nice SP because Sandy Petersen and John Romero are good designers. There is a reason why Carmack is the face of the company: and that reason is that id isn't a "game studio", they are "game developers" and that is the focus of the company.

It's a common term in the BDSM community. And in MMORPG. The connection is funny.

Yup. Bing still feels too cumbersome to use, but it's a product that can be improved. Not that I think Facebook would try to buy it, but sure as hell I don't think Microsoft would randomly sell it.

That said, this is the only part of TFA that actually talks about the headline. Apparently, the submitter did not even read much, because the rest of the article is actually interesting instead of this random speculation that has absolutely no proof, names, evidence, or even quotes, and isn't even that intriguing to start with. But this is /. AKA "must bash Microsoft", instead of the positively boring "Microsoft and Facebook Align Further With Patent Deal" real haedline.

Apparently, someone has no idea how to use Windows. (And you guys want everyone to *learn* Linux?)

Do you realize that comment is pretty pointless itself? The idea is how to fix the Chrome OS, not what you should replace it with.

I'd like to try the OS, but it seems redundant. Why would I do so? The only reason Chrome OS would be attractive is if it had a wide range of applications that could be attractive. I think that's the point. (Which is, conversely, the reason why I don't make the complete switch to Linux in all of my boxes: apps)

Apparently, you don't know how companies use marketing to sway public opinion.

Pinterest isn't that important. If anything, Tumblr might be: except that Tumblr is probably already too strong. All this interest for Pinterest reminds me of the huge boner every social media site had for Posterous, and we all know how it ended up.