The commonly accepted definition of "a PC" is "able to run Windows." Hence the MAC vs PC commercials. Are you really that stupid. Yes you are. I bet you are wearing your woolen M$ underwear right now.

You are intenionally being dense. Or you are really dense. I guess both: you are acting especially dense because you are actually pretty dense at the best of times and your only superpower is acting dense so you wallow in it.

Let Wikipedia explain it to you, apparently the one person who does not know:

"PC" is an initialism for "personal computer". However, it is used in a different sense: It means a personal computers with an Intel x86-compatible processor running Microsoft Windows (sometimes called Wintel)

Or let Microsoft play word games like you with a federal judge, and see how that works out.

No. Duh.

If a Chromebook is a PC then show me one running Windows.

Once again, I said PCs, not Chromeboxes. Well, I understand by the prevarication that is going on thick and fast that you do indeed know that Microsoft is still a flagrant lawbreaker. Firmed up my opiinion on that.

Sorry, you didn't show me PCs running non-Windows, you showed me Chromeboxes. Are you dense?

BTW, I only see PCs on Dell's front page. So much for believing a Microsoft apologist.

Show me the PCs running anything but Windows, and I won't call your post a straw man. Microsoft continues to exercise and abuse market power in the PC market, please stick to the issue.

You may be just a bit old, but you will come around :)

One day when you're cooling your heels in the proverbial doctor's office and you already read all your mail and can't be bothered with any of the facebook stuff and nobody wants to chat with you, you will remember that the phone also plays games.

You are glossing over the fact that Microsoft still plays hardball over Windows license price and associated kickbacks with each individual OEM.

The oems can fight back, but are they? All of them? If the answer is no, even for some of them, there are still Sherman act violations. FYI, the touchstone test for Sherman act: "is market power being exercised?"

Only if the DoJ continues to look the other way in the face of continuing flagrant Sherman act violations in the form of secret exclusionary agreements with OEMS and the like. Microsoft never made it on merit...

Speaking of which, it's about time for another massive fine from the Eurocrat direction, wouldn't you say?

I too am typing on a PC, but it is not running Windows.

Of course Windows is still relevent, it remains the authoritative source of Windows reboot sounds.

You have a kid? Your phones are used for gaming. You never ever play a game yourself? You're the only one. I suppose you never email or browse with them either :)

Java is famously crappy and sluggish for GUIs too, and barely tolerable for web. As a rule of thumb, whatever you are running on your server will run about 20-30% faster if you recode it from Java to C++. First hand experience speaking here, and you will find multiple confirmations out there. Java is just a pig, with its jitting, memory hogging, heavyweight thread locks, etc, etc.

Mind you, Java performs better than Python or Ruby so at least there is that. But never labour under the illusion that Java can compete with C++ or C in terms of throughput, latency or memory footprint. You code in Java so you can use cheaper programmers, that's it. Otherwise, if you can afford it, you do the job properly in C++.