"The longer that microsoft wait,the more irrelevant their products become".......... This is true, but also, the less time there is between updates, the more it undoes their vendor lock in. their customers will get more and more dissatisfied at having to do another expensive upgrade which may break backwards compatibility. There are still many people, companies and institutions running winXP,and there is already talk of windows 8. So while they can't afford to lag behind competition, they also can't afford to release upgrades too quickly. I'm making a guess that their revenues from windows and office sales have been declining. People may,at some point, refuse to spend more of their money on upgrading,and if antagonised by microsoft with lack of updates, they may just start looking towards open source or/and free alternatives. microsoft is a large company and they probably can't afford to sell win8 and office whatever at a competitive enough price to lure new customers,or convince a few existing ones to upgrade.

That's not something I want to hear from you, American. (Assuming you are american )

Hey man, if you're going to bother with punctuation, sort out your parentheses. mkay? It makes it easier to understand your train of thought.

It may have just struck them that there is an appetite for truth out there that wikileaks is busy feeding. They are in the prime position to embrace, extend, extinguish. In their extinguish phase,I suspect they'll begin turning on wikileaks and Julian Assange by scandalising, spreading doubt and making them out to be the enemy,and naturally the public will sing in chorus,forgetting all the truth wikileaks had revealed ,and embracing the old king as the real voice of truth. Disclaimer: this is my very pessimistic view.

The following is based on hunch feelings and no scientific background.I highly doubt that this is just a chance discovery,im no physicist, but as advanced as physics is today,the discovery of such a phenomenon is something that should have followed intuitively. was some new process discovered recently that is only now being applied? is their reactor THAT revolutionary ? the paranoid voice in me even goes as far as saying that they were just sitting on this while waiting for something, or something came up that forced them to reveal this. in any case,it's a promising development,and i'll give them a thumbs up for their hard work.

So it'd be like the matrix pulling an aizen.(link to the aizen parody on onemanga forums ) . I can see that happening..."since when were you under the impression that you were out of the matrix?"

aluminium

Can't sell abstract ideas? I think the USPTO would like to have a word with you sir/madam.

Of course you should understand that a government is an entity that takes the power, so the limited of a limited government as time goes by,is a totalitarian government. Mainly because granting more power to a government can be done by law, and no government ever cedes power. It keeps climbing up the ladder slowly, only to come cascading down under revolution. Then the series repeats.

Is there a solution to this? I can actually only think of other major open source os developing operating systems for smartphones(ubuntu smart,smart suse, smart fedora....) ,that could alleviate the situation, unless you get companies like motorola with its bootloader nonsense. realistically speaking, what can be done?

if I may ask, in which other countries has there recently been proposed a new law for media censorship or something similar and in which countries is some sort of media censorship already being practiced ? i know that In south africa there was a proposed bill very recently.

how i've longed for a replacement to one note! for years now. I really hope LibreOffice does something about it. Having a tablet with a full featured ,open source OneNote-like program will win the hearts of students the world over... I will pray.

i'm fine with chasing the desktop dream, it gives purpose. As long as linux keeps dominating on new platforms as they arrive. It'll be quite the situation when the desktop becomes obsolete (somehow ) . so keep trying to catch the wind ,linux. Lord knows it keeps you motivated.

Squeeze theorem?

I recently got a motorola milestone, how do I go about installing 2.2?