And consumer ISPs give asymmetric speeds most of the time with EULAs that forbid running servers. It's pretty obvious that they'll accept more data than they send by design, so it's unreasonable for their peering agreements to assume symmetric transfers.

If my neighbour removes the mural from my mailbox (that I commissioned) because they think they're helping remove graffiti, then yeah, I'd say they're overstepping their bounds. That's an analogy of part of the rationale behind not hacking other peoples systems with the intent to remove malware.

I'm all for malware clean-up efforts, but there are laws and ethics that may prevent some techniques for doing so.

Technically XP didn't run on AMD64, you needed a separate OS called XP Professional x64 Edition. It shared the codebase with Server 2003 SP1, not with XP.

(Some of which were also branded Zune at one point - eg Music and Video)

Don't even start on the re-re-branding of the Bing/Xbox/MSN applications in Windows Store.

While I recognise most of your concerns, this is not one of them. Enterprise environments already have the capability to bypass the Windows Store.

Unless it uses assembly, it should pretty much just be a recompile. How dependent is Chrome on x86/x64?

While I don't disagree with what most of what you wrote, I'd like to point out that the regression of universality of log files is exactly why people are complaining. When stuff breaks, you want the diagnostics to be as simple and universal as possible.

And "plain text" or "human readable" are well known terms that cover ASCII encoding, which is considered to be the opposite of a binary format. You were being unnecessarily pedantic.

"Never" is a bold claim. Are you sure that these hurdles would be insurmountable 500 years from now?

Arch is rolling release. It doesn't do "major release upgrades". In that sense, there are absolutely no issues with major release upgrades. Updates, on the other hand, can often have issues similar to major release upgrades, but they are usually less severe and occur more frequently.

I think it's fairly safe to say that the majority of headlines these days are sensationalised.

Challenge accepted?

You're right, my wording was inaccurate. Still, there are many crashes it doesn't prevent.

If it's not produced, then technically it isn't "coming".