When is somebody going to raise an antitrust case against the EU?

obviously haven't used bing recently

I think the point is this is Slashdot and you can't say anything good about or recommend a Microsoft product here, it's sacrilegious.

why is this even posted to Slashdot?

and governments never would use money unswisely!!! and fraud? you'd have to be joking!!!

I run Windows 8 Enterprise x64 on a MacBook Air via Bootcamp.I boot into MacOS only for music recording. I run Ubuntu in Hyper-V when needed. Why I continue to use Windows - Visual Studio 2012 for :NET and Win32 C++ coding, the integrated debugging tools, automated testing compatibility, integrated code analysis all seem superior to what I've tried in Linux - Office 2013. Sorry LibreOffice/OpenOffice you're still playing catchup. Maybe for certain uses this may be OK, but for complex docs I work with MS Office is superior. - bash is nice, PowerShell 3.0 far superior , and if I want bash can run it on windows anyway - Windows is now very stable/secure even out of the box - Internet Explorer is no longer the crappy browser it was

"available anywhere in the world" YouTube is not available everywhere in the world. China for example.

Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 8. The same headlines "windows is over" over and over again. Maybe this time it's for real. Maybe it finally will be the year of the Linux Desktop, that was apparently supposed to happen every year for the past 10 years. Maybe by the end of 2013 we'll only use iPads to do all our work

so I've been using Surface RT 64 GB as my primary device now for several weeks. The good * working with office documents clearly superior than existing tablets * jail break to run .NET (non-WPF) and re-compiled native apps to ARM is great. I have SharpDevelop, full C# IDE on tablet and it works great. * remote desktop capabilities works great * can achieve 80wpm+ on the "touch" cover The bad: * The Windows Store Apps/Games suck big time * Windows Store Apps Quality * Windows Store Apps Launch Speed * No official SDK to compile desktop apps to ARM * jailbreak required to run 3rd party desktop apps * Mail app search is totally non functional for me (but works on my Windows 8 x64 dev) * Not sure if Touch Cover will be durable * Screen too reflective * Auto brightness is either lacking totally or works poorly * can't dual boot an alternate OS (yet) * gcc not ported yet to target Windows RT (ARM) desktop apps * WinDbg for ARM not publicly available * citrix Client is TERRIBLE (worse than iPad/Android versions) HTML5 client is slightly better. I find overall I'm happy with it,use it to remotely access full Virtual Desktop with external monitor and keyboard/mouse, and then take it away to cafes &c or crammed public transport for document reviews/editing/creation. In my opinion main thing MS needs to do: unlock desktop apps (at least as system setting) and rapidly get QUALITY in Windows Store, and ensure apps like MAIL search works flawlessly and launch time is super quick. I think the product has potential but if the app quality issue is no rectified fast doubt it can survive.

Speaking of Office & Visual Studio, sounds like you're in Windows...just need to enable High Contrast mode, a Windows settings - this will give office & visual studio black backgrounds...

so what MS is good at office. Office 2013 easily beats competitors such as LibreOffice, and alternatives on Mac for many usage scenarios. what's with the "MS is better" = "doesn't make me happy" So they sometimes make good software. oops did i say that aloud on slashdot??? *waits for crucifiction* when will the apple/linux/google/ms world learn to live together in peace & harmony...like they do in my house.

Win8 is not as bad as these idiots make out, i use it a year, no problem. I'm an adult. My kids can use it to. So a linux geek can't use windows 8 , so what?

they self close / pause in background, you're thinking too much.

yeah except in windows / macOS it's a 1 in 10 year kind of thing, linux it's every damn kernel upgrade which is bloody frequent.