You arent looking at the low end. I just picked up a very serviceable Windows 8 tablet (with a year of office 365) for $59 (microcenter.com winbook Tw700).

This exactly. Windows needs to END the Modern program now, its never going to work.

No an OS with a giant blackbox (Modern) smack dab in the middle of it is not better.....Win 7 is a proper true enterprise OS, Win 8 is not.

Its still a split personality OS. Can I change the Modern Apps directory without hacking the registry? NO? then its still a cluster fuck with a new coat of paint. I cant have an OS with a giant blackbox in the middle of it.

"Running 10 year old operating systems is rediculous and puts an undue burden on Web and software developers"

......Just wow....

Im confused by point #1. Are you saying you cant have an android device without google services? You dont NEED gmail and Chrome, they are easily replaced.

NO. The APU in the PS4 is by far the most powerful APU ever made, AMD said so themsleves. Not even the 7850k comes close to the PS4s power, not to mention the PS4 is running GDDR5 for OS and GPU with hUMA. The Xbox APU has special SRAM installed. They are NOT identical designs. Close, but not interchangeable.

Historically, the Xbox binds the optical drive to the motherboard in the software. Its not as simple as you make it seem. On the Xbox One this relationship has been hardened as it was a vector for running unsigned code in the 360s lifecycle. Would be better to omit the drives entirely and go all-digital only.

Saying Linus is the leader is like saying all Christians listen to the Pope.

Windows 8 can run well on a 16 GB partition and 1 GB of ram with a 1.3 GHZ Bay Trail Atom CPU.....

The public (via our representatives) leases out spectrum to companies. It doesnt mean the companies own them, only that our representatives have decided that the public is better served by leasing those frequencies than letting them be used for Ham.

Airwaves are owned by the public (in the U.S.A.)and the public ALONE.

OK this is interesting, i didnt know OSX also had an App store version of RDP. I have been using the one built into OSX as a 'standard' application. Downloading the App store version now. Thanks!

Perhaps they are test VMs and he wants to see how migration goes before deployment....There are LOTS of reasons to run VMs, not just limited to what you can imagine.

Windows 8 has a full embedded lockdown mode built right in.