Funny how North Americans are fine with selling their soul to get a discount on their mobile phones by locking into a contract and having their phones SIM-locked...yet all this noise about the iPad and it's "closed" ecosystem.

What a horrid example! Would you replace a Ferrari's brakes with some Ford parts? Is Ferrari exploiting these fools (amazing how much fools can afford nowadays) because they can't take it into "Joe's Autogarage"? I mean car parts are car parts aren't they? There is no reason why Ferrari can't standardize on all parts that are more commonly on the market.

There is no swiss army knife people! If anything, techies should learn that there are different markets out there. Some people like "freedom" to tinker, others just want an appliance. I deal with IT all day at work. I want my stuff outside of work to just...well, work. I don't want to help people install, debug, and fix their Linux and Windows messes. If anything, I tell my non-techie friends to buy Apple stuff and to just use it and not mess with it. Works for them and works for me.

Just look at Windows drivers versus Mac drivers. I know with any Mac driver issues I go to Apple and tell them to fix them. I don't get a load of crap apps from vendors who think they know what I need, I can depend on Apple to sort out their driver issues. Windows?? Good luck. Freedom is for those who know what they are doing. Trust me, plenty of people don't know what they are doing.

Perhaps MS should finally grow some balls and ditch legacy code. Just do it. It's not about what the customer thinks they want, it's about progress. Do it like Jobs.

Just one question, we've got non-Microsoft Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware, non-Microsoft client firewall, non-Microsoft anti-spyware...why are we spending money on all this for our organization if it doesn't mitigate against these zero-day vulnerabilities?

I guess they all remain quiet as nobody wants to share this spotlight with MS.

Honestly, does anyone NOT choose Google? If there is a better search engine out there please let me know. Try looking for Microsoft material on Bing. You'd think if anything Microsoft's own search engine would be a good way to find Microsoft material. No dice! Typically Google's first result will be a link directly to a MS site with the content I look for whereas Bing will have a whole bunch of crap with their own sites somewhere further down the list.

In a thriving economy with enormous growth, there are plenty of people who have time to contribute because they have the luxury of a well paying job and the best of intentions. Place these restrictions on the contributors, plus the failing economy and you have the perfect storm for a grand exodus. To answer the question, "Where are people going?" They are spending time looking for a job, working more hours, or working more than one job to make ends meet. They are donating their time to activities that reward them for their contributions rather then getting stuck in the bureaucracy.

Then again, if you look at the number of iPhone apps that are published each day. Maybe people are building apps instead. Same painful approval process; but, at least you might get paid.

I've preached this for a long time. Remove the seatbelts, airbags and install an iron spike that pops out of the steering column on impact. Sure there will be some collateral damage at first; however, at the end of the day people will sure drive safely and all the a-hole drivers out there will either learn to be courteous and pay attention or get quickly weeded out of the gene pool.

People are way to "babied" nowadays.

The Citrix/Terminal Server type solution is fine for employees who are chained to their desks; however, this does not bode well for mobile workers. Sales people, accountants, business people, etc. who are on the road need to be able to work while offsite and sometimes disconnected. There are places in the world, where the availability of low cost high bandwidth wireless exists rendering this a non-issue; however, North America is not one of those places.

What is the solution for those who are on the road, in a plane, or on a train? For large enterprise, probably Windows 7 if they are still on XP.