I'm nearly 44 and I migrated away from COBOL 10 years ago. I don't know where all these mythical COBOL jobs are - I get an email every few months from a recruiter but I get several emails a day for jobs requiring my current skills.

If Linux advocates spent as much time fixing the issues with Linux distros as they do denying they exist then Windows might have had some real competition from someone other than Apple.

We can't have a slippery slope due to health and safety legislation.

How incredibly snobby to give a shit about what's going on in the world and how your country's being run rather than hur hur look at da crazy cat. The human race is filed.

After me what? I haven't made a blanket statement like you have. If you can't answer my straightforward question then perhaps you should try thinking for a change.

Then maybe you should try thinking about it instead of posting blanket statements.

If being a straight white male is so awesome why do so many of us commit suicide?

You'd prefer working 18 hours a day in all weathers and dying of exhaustion at 43 if you're lucky enough not to die of starvation or disease first. Some people really don't realise how good they've got it.

Because it's very expensive.

I blame people who say idiotic things like "if you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to worry about".

Depends. If you're happy that nothing bad will ever happen to you then carry on believing in Libertaria. Me I'll rely on the fact that I will get treatment when I'm sick and won't starve if I am no longer able to work through no fault of my own.

You might argue that the private sector can do that but you have to justify yourself to them much more than to a state health care system.

Fight the bad laws and the bad actors for sure but the reason that you and I are amongst the safest humans in history is largely due to a strong government system.

There's nothing dumb about giving someone a device that will seamlessly connect to their infrastructure and run their Windows only software. Windows tablets will gradually replace quite a few of the Windows laptops in use now.

Windows is definitely dwindling in the consumer space and I can't see them ever catching Apple and Android tablets in that market but there's a huge largely untapped corporate market that Microsoft has a massive entrenched prescence in already.

The OP believes that Windows 8.1 is free when it isn't. What does this have to do with Apple?

Windows 8.1 is not free. http://www.microsoftstore.com/....

A tablet running full Windows where you can connect seamlessly to Exchange and AD, run Office and other Windows only apps and their existing .NET devs can easily write apps for them. The org I work for is trialing them now and the initial feedback has been very positive.

I can see the previous company I worked for going for it in a big way too. They have a lot of field staff who have lots of data to capture.