I pray to the gods that the Windows UI designers read your comment and decide to undo this madness. Microsoft are determined to have a unified interface between desktop, tablet and phone and will cause the desktop to be less useful and harder to use if necessary.

It enrages me to no end the current trend of using OSs to sell you services: Google did it with Android (understandable since they live off your data, but I'd pay money for an Android which wasn''t tied to Google's services), and now Microsoft is doing it with a desktop OS. The free upgrade during the first year to Win 10 further confirms this: They're desperate for you to move to their data-grabbing, service-selling new OS. I'd rather pay some money and get a clean OS like what Windows was until 7

Anyone catched the quote on the Windows keynote the other day? "We see Windows as a Service". Soon you won't be able to purchase a Windows license, you'll have a recurring subscription. And this way the problem of people not upgrading will be solved forever.

Ain't it sad that to make Windows 8 usable you have to install a third-party program? Microsoft failed hard with Win8, and the worst is that they knew but they HAD to use it to get people used to Windows Phone and to use their services

Many (all?) of the things the Steam client displays are webpages and thus it contains a web browser and those are heavy beats. I believe that's the reason the Steam client uses so much RAM

I cannot believe this has turned into a discussion of whose bloatware is less bad. The obvious good solution is to allow the user to uninstall anything.
I undestand Google has every right to get money back for all they invest in Android but ...20 apps? I think it's a bit too much. Ideally they would provide other ways of compensating them (like good old money)

Your comment is slightly off-topic since this SD card is of the regular size and thus doesn't fit in smartphones...but otherwise I completely agree with you. Why is everyone so intent in robbing us the ability to manage storage in our smartphones? :(

What you say sounds plausible, anyway, true or not, the damage is done

This is on the news everywhere and, obviously, is going to make Apple look very bad. I don't think I'll have long term consequences for Apple but at least it may make some people think twice about uploading personal information to "the cloud".

Well, I agree completely about the newly gained spare time. Having time for reading, listening to music, etc. is why I usually ride the metro instead of driving when I go somewhere where the metro goes

I think those were honest questions without bad intentions. I also think that the real problem that Bjarne didn't answer to better questions is that they weren't posted in the questions thread in the first place (or maybe the method used to select them wasn't the best)

Well in this day and age in which mobile OS's are severely crippled compared to PC ones and that is considered fine by the 99% of population it certainly doesn't surprise me that the new generation consoles are severely limited also.
On one hand I understand that for many regular folks their smartphone or tablet is now their main computing device, and for millions of people in less developed countries may be their first and only one. It makes sense then to make a OS easy to use and secure, but that doesn't mean it has to prevent us experienced computer users to do things like running software downloaded from arbitrary places or letting us manage our storage as we see fit.
iOS has always been a severely limited OS, Windows Phone it's a close cousin only with fewer applications, and Android, the one that was closest to a general purpose OS is being crippled by Google in the newer versions (e.g.: Removing the ability of writing to arbitrary locations on the EXTERNAL sd card in KitKat). A sad state of affairs :(

For the uses you mention, I agree with you that the typical 6 inch readers are garbage. But larger e-ink displays can be quite nice for that use case if the software is good enough.
I have a 9.7 inch e-ink reader by Onyx and the hardware is pretty good. In that screen size many books with diagrams look nice and you can see a nice amount of information at once. Alas, the Onyx software is passable but could be much better. I wouldn't recomend this particular model for a demanding professional, but as I said , with the right software this kind of technology can be very nice. Have a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Imagine the software of the device shown in the beggining with the screen shown at about 2:35.

Not a finished product. But this http://youtu.be/ldvk_jAGjQI?t=... shows that there are other companies trying to make things with large e-ink screens.
I'm not sure about screens so large but I have a 9.7 inch e-ink reader and I love it.

I bet they'll switch Windows to a subscription model like they've done with Office. I know you can still buy copies of Office in the traditional manner and run them for as long as you want buy they're pushing people to the subscription option.
Like Adobe, it seems it's the only idea they have for solving the "good enough, why change?" problem (for them) of mature software.