Also, consumer (and mass storage) grade 7200 rpm drives have significantly lower power surge than 15K drives.

Microsoft security, the gift that just keeps on giving. Note the elapsed times between vulnerability publication and update.

Their only hope is to bulldoze the Windows servers and put in nice Linux clusters like everybody else. Otherwise, the inevitable result will be high comedy. Except for those unfortunate victims who decide to throw their corporate fortunes in with Microsoft's big system expertise.

I thought that .NET was dead. Does anybody really know?

I was saddened to see Ballmer go. I felt that all the Microsoft toadies richly deserved him. It would have been nice to see him go down with the ship, but I knew in my heart what rats do when the water starts rising. I sincerely hope that Nadella proves himself fully worthy to fill Ballmer's clown shoes.

Nothing about Microsoft has changed except its PR spin. It remains the same morally bankrupt skofflaw monopolist it has always been. Puff piece.

+1 informative.

Most probably multiple cameras, prepositioned and synchronized.

I do not think that the word "oxidizer" means what you think it does.

William Gibson suggested mounting it in a blimp. Who cares about the blimp?

So we move on to processed coal, seems cheap to me.

Maybe it all just dropped through to the other side.

Perhaps you forget that billg still pulls his strings.

Never mind that OOXML is only fraudulently open.

Neither do Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter or Samsung. Shameful.