Answer: OneNote is the ultimate note taking app and I find its layout to be far more my liking than Evernote. Evernote actually repulses me graphically. It is actually the main app preventing me from moving over to Linux Mint. Libre Office suffices in place of Word and Excel, but nothing out there comes close to the power of OneNote. Listen, extremists, I'm sorry I am endorsing a Microsoft product! OneNote 2003 can run under WINE except for a few things that are trivial to me (search up the WINE compatibility database -- very useful). OneNote 2013 will not run under WINE for a *long* time, I'm sure. Only Windows flavors of OneNote are worthy of the name -- the iOS & Android varients are not good. Try to keep all comments relative to note taking software, so this fellow gets his problem solved.

Larry's comment parallels those that rant that Microsoft is doomed because Apple will eat its lunch. Or those that laugh at Apple and Microsoft saying they are both doomed because cheap Android devices will be their end. Those are extreme comments. Apple, Google, and Microsoft will both continue making record profits that will just increase. For a company, profit is the only true measure of success. They're all adapting. I think the only true change that has come about is that now coders like myself have to be knowledgeable of cross-platform methods so they can hit all the markets, both present and future. Peace out.

MS has a lot of Apple envy, as one can see by its most recent strategies. I can't help but feel that they are making this move to more closely emulate Apple's corporate structure. They're doing a lot of imitation while trying to be distinctive.

The death of BYTE magazine and Creative Computing Magazines hit me HARD. I subscribed to them in high school after I spent $3,000 on a Apple II with 32k RAM. I could not comprehend how such amazing magazines could die. I can't even raise a brow at any magazine that vanishes now, especially when the world of Internet information is at hand.

The Sahara desert was a green and lush place just a few thousand years ago: they still have the skeletons of HIPPOS and other beasts to prove it. How much water does a HIPPO need guys? Quite a bit. NASA says it was green "10,000" years ago but I always felt it was more like -- go ahead and laugh -- 4,000 years ago. Areas around Iraq had cities that were surrounded by water, Venice-style. Israel was brimming with BEARS and lions and wolves. Takes a lot of vegetation to support a BEAR. The middle east use to have plenty of forests and trees. The world is filled with examples of gigantism in previous ages. Basically, the world is dying a slow death -- and it all began before a single factory existed. The scientists that insisted that the world was climatically constant for hundreds of thousands of years have basically set everybody up for a big surprise when they begin to realize things are really changing. Now they want to shut down the economies of developed nations to hand manufacturing over to the biggest polluters on the earth.

They should of called it "winPhone" instead of Windows 8. That was like calling it Crap+1 instead of just Crap, because all the windows phones before 8 literally were pretty crappy. Doomed by association.

Slashdot is a Windows bashing site to the point of being ridiculous. It seems that Ars Technica is a little more even-handed when commenting on Operating Systems. It's good to weigh the pros and cons of all the operating systems without falling prey to the immature "Evil Microsoft" mentality that so many people have here. I like LockerGnome's opinion that an operating system's strength is often is weakness; dwell upon that one.

Herding lots of programmers must drive men to cursing, because Gates & Jobs could rant their curses with the best of them -- and it got them results. Human nature. No news here.

Android does not appear to have a standard set of emoji, which is what prevented my wife and I from switching from iPhone to Android. We enjoy texting those funny little pics to each other, which are quickly accessed from the keyboard. Rather than responding "K" I can send a face blowing a kiss, or something equally charming. It would be great to be able to text the same exact icon from any device. The creator of this project knows it will be appreciated by many in the future if all devices can standardize on a common set of emoji.

Everyone viewing this web page is using Linux: The web host is probably using Linux, as well as the ISPs delivering the bandwidth.

Vertical tabs done right, are what keep me with Opera. I often open a dozen windows at a time and the tabs only display well vertically.

MS is actually playing pretty nice; they could play ball a lot harder if they wanted to. People receive a good out-of-the-box experience from MS, Apple, Android; hopefully Ubuntu will get to where the average fellow enjoys it with less hiccups.

Valve wants their form of 30% rape to beat out MS's future 30% rape marketplace. I wish internationally laws would ban providers from taking more than a 5% cut on apps, music, and movies, books, magazines. It's too much power for Apple, Microsoft, Steam, or Google to be grabbing 30% of all intellectual properties. 5% is still too much but a bit more reasonable. Also, laws must mandate alternate marketplaces that can be selected by the user. Valve is really grasping at straws. Remember how a few months ago they boasted that a many years-old version of DirectX (version 9?) was slower than the latest OpenGL? They're just on a smear campaign to boost the last hope of 30% rape they can hang on to: Linux.