Is the Exchange client on Android possibly horrid? I've only used the regular stock IMAP client, but that was never very good, lagging behind the GMail app severely in terms of both features and polish. Maybe Android is the main reason?

Also, I'm sure Microsoft would prefer their branding on any Exchange clients, just to stay in the execs' heads every time they check their e-mail... it's built in retroactive marketing that keeps their clients locked in.

On a more serious note: Just use Chrome for all things Flash. I use Firefox for everything else, but when I need Flash, I fire up Chrome...

Well, I bought a phone directly from Google about two years ago - a Galaxy Nexus - and that's now stuck on 4.3, including this lovely WebView bug.

In the case of Android users stuck on 4.3, upgrading to a newer Android version means purchasing a new phone - so pretty much the same thing here.

What about those of us whose hardware provider is Google? Galaxy Nexus anyone?

My Galaxy Nexus begs to differ. An original Google Nexus program phone, stuck on 4.3, with this bug. The entity responsible for pushing updates to this phone is Google...

So will this get me better performance in IE's metro version on my Win8.1 tablet (if/when I upgrade that to Windows 10)?

Hell, even 5GHz WiFi doesn't have enough penetration for full coverage of a three-room appartment (albeit in Germany - no US style cardboard walls here). If my router wasn't dual-band I'd be screwed every time I need to take a dump :p

90+GHz is going to be pretty much limited to Line-of-Sight unless they have some pretty awesome tricks up their sleeves.

Apparently the screenshots in the article are the full-screen "touch" versions. I'd expect the regular versions to have the full ribbons just like 2010 or 2013 (which I've actually grown to like, because they expose keyboard shortcuts for practically EVERYTHING).

Near as I can tell, Office 2013 is exactly the same as the software Office365 subscribers are getting. I'd assume Office365 users just get auto-updated to Office 2016 as soon as it's released...

... to store photos. They have a handy "share via link" function for entire albums, so you can easily share entire albums with friends (albeit without fine grained control of permissions... basically anyone with the link re-share it at will). There's no storage limit for images up to 2048px (longest side), and there's an easy way to download individual images as well as entire zipped albums.

As a social network though? Hahaha, I only have a Facebook account for Messenger - wtf would I need another network for?

You're forgetting that even pro level cameras have mirror/shutter mechanisms rated for just a few 100k flips. I'm a DSLR shooter too, but I have no illusions about the durability of a mirror+shutter mechanism.

And even that Nexus 6, the absolute current top-of-the-line flagship in the Android world, has a laggier camera app. And focuses more slowly.

The gap is closing, sure, but what a phone camera needs to be is INSTANT. Keep it in memory at all times for all I care, as long as it's open within milliseconds of me tapping the button to open the camera app.

It's funny that you should mention the number of exposures and reference a 7D (a DSLR, with a mirror that needs to flip up for EVERY SINGLE SHOT!) in comparison with a MILC camera, which has far fewer moving parts.

"That said, it's questionable how much it really matters in the real world at the moment."

On I/O devices? Immensely! Your example with the graphics cards shows little difference due to the fact that the performance of graphics cards isn't limited by PCIe bandwidth. IO devices which can read and write faster than PCIe 2.0 slots are able to throughput data, on the other hand, will show immediate gains. If an SSD can read at 3GB/sec and the slot only allows 2GB/sec, obviously upgrading to a newer standard is going to make a huge difference.