Have you even checked out Google's Google Apps offering for businesses or are you just spouting off? Seriously - 1) The professional side is not free ala Gmail it is based off of. 2) Exchange doesn't offer built in translation services in the mail client or the chat client 3) There are more collaboration options and features in Google apps than you get with the Outlook/Exchange combo. I could go on, but you seriously need to check out the offering before you outright bash it.

I certainly agree with your opinion regarding moving people off a recent investment in Win 7, but the Exchange to Google Apps option is viable and potentially a money saver even though we don't know the details of his environment.

She was the start of moving back and forth between the virtual world and the cylon bodies. From what I've seen in the series so far it appears that she and Tamara's trapped avatar were about to begin working together to change the depravity in new cap city. If I take that thought further based on Daniel's new idea to create lasting avatars of deceased people in the virtual world, then they too could be placed into the Cylon bodies.

So yeah, the basis of her being 16 is a bit of a stretch, but because of her ties and teachings from the church of the one god it's not too much of a stretch to figure out that could be the basis of the Cylons thinking the human race is a cess-pool that needs to be eliminated (think crusades where if you didn't convert you were killed). This is something we witnessed in BSG with Baltar and him having faith pushed upon him by a cylon.

We really don't know how Caprica is going to end other than in the Cylon/Human war. The thing that interested me about the series was that it was giving some insight into how the Cylons came to be and why they want to eradicate humanity (and from what they show in the series so far I can't say I blame them).

Not only was there a huge break, they changed the day it aired from Friday to Tuesday. To compound the issue further I had checked the syfy site in August and they showed it as not starting back up until January. I checked back last week to discover the show had not only started back up at the beginning of October, but had been moved from Friday to Tuesday. Thankfully they had the episodes online so I could catch up, but now they are pulling the plug.

And they wonder why they didn't have the viewership for this one.

The problem is the average customer buys a boxed machine at Best Buy, Wal-Mart, etc and takes it home. Upon booting up the machine they get their 30 to 90 day trial of McAfee or Norton, then subscribe at the end up and end up resubbing every year. My guess is this is where he is getting this.

The average reader of Slashdot knows that there are free alternatives. The average consumer that buys a HP, Dell, or whatever at the local brick and mortar retailer does not.

Being that the iPad and the iPhone use the same base OS I'd be really surprised if the iPad did NOT support Exchange Email out of the box since the iPhone already does. The VPN I am not sure on. The iPhone does, the iPad in theory *should* but we won't know for sure until it ships.

Those two points alone should be pretty easy for InfoWorld to get a good educated guess on based on what is available for the iPhone now, and in the developers kit if you have access to it. And from what I've seen the iPad is focused at the consumer market primarily. I would not be surprised if the next version of the iPad has more enterprise features built in just as the iPhone 3g did over the original iPhone.

Meh, I'm running 7 Ultimate (technet license - full version, not the release candidates) on a Dell Latitude E6400 and I'd like to say that so far, RDP is NOT better. It hangs on closing to the point of needing a system reboot. I had better RDP in Ubuntu 9.04, Vista, and XP than this. Sometimes a reboot helps, but lately it has been pretty consistent in the hang on logging out of an RDP session.

Office 2007 (outlook) hangs on certain emails (one from the local Apple store, go figure), and hung on printing an email from a vendor. If I load up my XP VM (for my phone system admin software) Outlook 2007 works fine on the email and printing.

Power management certainly is not better than Ubuntu. I had longer life on a charge from Ubuntu than I get now with 7 - this is with unmodified settings in either OS.

Boot up was generally faster than Vista and XP, but is starting to slow down. Overall time to desktop is definitely better, but with age it is starting to slow down like previous versions of Windows have.

Shut down is another story...sometimes it hangs and I have to hold the power button down to get the laptop to shut down. Other times it seems to take an eternity but does shut down properly on its own.

All drivers are up to date, all updates from Microsoft have been applied, and I am running the Microsoft Security Essentials to see how well it works (so far it seems ok, but haven't really tried to purposely infect the machine).

Overall my impression of it is an updated version of Vista. There are some nice features added to it, but at this point from my experiences I'd say hold off a bit and wait for some updates to come along for both the OS and the hardware drivers.