I'm kind of impressed they didn't say Obama was to blame for global warming.

That sounds like more of an example of why intelligence measures don't work, just as strength measures don't. The same guy doesn't win every Strongman (etc) event. Different athletes have different kinds of strength. You can't just add together bench-press percentile with neuron-activity percentile (weighted according to how important each is) to determine who will be more likely to win the next MMA bout.

Also, you can google "[x]km in miles". While Bing is starting to get the hang of some math questions, it doesn't have this one yet; at least not when done with this phrasing.

The worst is when they are clearly referring to Christmas but call it the holidays. I live near a supermarket that has a sign saying "[7] days 'til the holidays". Clueless executives were likely involved.

Except now you caused a time paradox that will manifest itself as the Earth exploding on the 21st.

Even better, it's like seeing 079999 on and odometer and thinking that. We are heading into the 13'th b'ak'tun out of 20 (b'ak'tuns last a little less than 400 years), and after ending the 20th, we move onto the 1st bak'tun of the 2nd piktun. Oh, and after 20 piktuns are done, it's onto the 2nd kalabtun, 20 of those is a K'inchiltun and 20 of those is a Alautun. But there's nothing for 20 Alautuns, so in ~460 billion years, we might see some trouble according to the Mayan calendar.

Go to Ninite and throw on Classic Shell (along with the other apps they will need; Ninite is great for this). Hopefully that will give most people what they're looking for. Classic Shell also lets you bypass Metro on startup. Then it's just a matter of configuring the auto-login and it's mostly like Win7 by that point, with the major difference being that Win8 has flat colours and Win7 has shiny glass.

This isn't for that. It's for those who would walk to a public computer, create a Google log-in, tell Google to remember the log-in ("this is a private computer"), turn all the filters off, and leave the account logged in for the next unsuspecting person who proceeds to make an innocent search with the filters off.

In your case, your filters would already be set to moderate unless you turned them off.

In that case, they may be forced by EU law to provide a list of 3rd parties they shared to until you delete your account, but they still wouldn't need tracking data.

Metro might be ok (haven't used it enough), but there are 3 things that don't work for desktop:

1) No start button on screen and no obvious option to enable it. Makes sense on a phone where you have the Windows button. The windows key on a keyboard however doesn't cut it. (Neither does moving the mouse to the corner of the screen, which is almost the same as auto-hiding the taskbar)
2) Keeping the taskbar visible while in the Metro menu would be nice, and wouldn't take up much room. So that should be an easily enabled option.
3) (This one is really bad) right clicking on an item in Metro brings up a menu at the bottom of the screen. On a desktop.

These comments might be beating a dead horse, but that's appropriate given the story it's attached to.

Silly claim by Facebook. Facebook should already ask you before you send any of your information to a different site. If the user accepts this, FB wouldn't be on the hook for the data on other sites (assuming the EU law was made rationally), therefore they wouldn't need to "keep more tracking data". It would be the user's responsibility to knock on the door of each site they allowed FB to share information with and tell them to delete all their data. Of course, if FB is sharing your data to other sites without your permission, that's a whole other issue.

They work in Win7 too. Sweet!

Wii is a deceptively goofy name. It's weird, but catchy, and the two "i"s look very distinctive among random text. DuckDuckGo is 3 syllables, composed of already existing words, and doesn't really stand out in a positive way.

Possible correction: from the other comments, it sounds like Google got duck.com a long time ago as part of an unrelated acquisition.

Interestingly, that is fairly similar to the relationship between Bing and Google, as Bing uses "many methods" but part of that is cribbing off of Google results. Just Google "Bing using Google results". Or Bing it :)