And how does it compare ti JPEG 2000 and JPEG XR? And all the other JPEG alternatives that have been trumpeted but never taken hold? And why should this succeed when those have failed?

I (and almost everyone else) just want what *already existed*

What you suggest is not the classic office experience. It's an experience that is inferior to WinWord 1 from 1991 out of the box. You're suggesting users spend *hours* reconfiguring the UI to a state worse than a version that shipped 23 years ago. They would have to do this on every computer they use. Assuming a computer at work, a computer at home,a child's computer, a laptop, and a friends computer they are helping them with, that's a week configuring toolbars.

Wouldn't it make more sense to remove 'features' that users complain about, like the ribbon, before removing features that are used by only a few users?

There's no guarantee that any significant portion of a $5-$15 chocolate bar went to the farmers. Your statements should read "If you pay $5-$15 per bar then there's a chance the farmers were paid fairly". Most american companies would just pocket the difference and continue to screw over the farmers.

The specs show the x700 as having only 10/100mbit ports, comcast offers 105mbit internet access.

If the whole goal is to avoid MS, FileMaker is pretty similar to Access from a feature standpoint.

Is what also true? it being a table or a div wont change how a screen reader reads the text.

IE6 is a 10,000 times more valid target browser than lynx.

This isn't progress. This is a designer taking over for UX. Bad bad bad.

So you hack elements into a table? How is that not using a table for 3 column layout? Why not just actually use a table? You can hack the elements away from being a table to get a mobile version.

Whom do you think W3 Schools preys on?

They do, I play it all the time.

The only issue is that the UI isn't as clean because it is so powerful

There are countless applications that are more powerful than VLC that also have cleaner UIs. Power does not precipitate bad UI; bad UI shames power.

Windows drivers have to be hacked to poll at 1000hz, the fastest they can poll. In other words, the fastest they poll WHEN HACKED is 1/50th as fast as your claim. The default is 125hz, 1/400th your claim. OSX has no problem keeping the disk defragmented and indexed while maintaining battery life. No need to check if the printer is there until you enumerate the available printers when you open a print dialogue. Every old Windows app I try to use has to be hacked into working in newer versions of Windows. Most of the things you list don't impact battery anyway like logging (most likely to in memory caches), in-memory registry, and concurrently loaded dlls.