Microsoft's motives are obvious. Other nations are adopting open-source, because nothing is hidden, and Microsoft is saying "me too." Microsoft is just trying to stop other countries from adopting open source.

Problem is: as soon as you start trusting Microsoft, Microsoft will pull the 'ol switcheroo. Then once Microsoft has you vendor-locked: it's problem solved - for Microsoft.

Microsoft's basic strategy has been the same for decades. Anybody who trusts Microsoft at this point is an ignorant fool.

Very good point. It used to take six months. Also, a TS lasted for five years, now, I think, it only lasts for two.

Just more massive government inefficiency.

Or having your hands/feet/head cut off. Or being sentenced to 100 lashes. Or being blown up in a terrorist attack.

As Saudi attacks on infidels go, this seems fairly mild.

And that was over ten years ago.

Ward is the jackass who compared the 9/11 victims to Nazis, shortly after 9/11.

Really, $140K a year to teach that kind of crap, and those coddled ivory tower bozos are still crying poverty?

The hard crashed right after it was discovered that the IRS was involved in a partisan scam. Perfect timing.

And this from an administration so well known for it's cover-ups - like the Benghazi cover-up.

If this is what the government claims, then it must be true. We never get anything but 100% truth from our government, right?

I heard so much about Linux, and how it blew Windows away, in terms of performance.

At the time, Windows 1995 ran acceptably well on a 386. Linux, with Gnome, was so slow, I could practically count the pixels as they appeared on my screen.

These days, I use Linux, nearly exclusively. On modern hardware, I think Linux does just fine. But on 1990s era hardware, not so much.

Certainly you would not make such a series of scathing allegations without solid proof.

Would you?

Or is that just another idea that somebody else invented, but Apple perfected? Then Microsoft steals the idea from Apple?

In the early 1990s, Apple was suing everybody over this "look and feel" nonsense.

Apple has to be the ultimate patent trolling software company. Especially considering their patents are mostly over silly design issues that Apple did not even "invent."

But as horrible as Apple is, Microsoft comes close.

One tiny tablet, and you get all the vitamins you need, and then some.