Followed by a full screen Easter egg of Clippy tap dancing.

I think he's referring to the 1st world little shits who squander opportunity, refuse to take responsibility, and project their frustrations in the most pseudo-intellectual way.

And the logo should depict lady liberty riding a bald eagle.

Yikes, I realize cost-controls are an unfortunate reality, but someone needs to slow down those death panels.

Bring back DOS. Or something like it. If people are willing to spend crazy money on gaming hardware and tweaking the MHz out of it, let people reboot their computer into a dedicated game mode, one where the OS layer is incredibly thin, even single-user, if it means performance would be that much better.

But..but.. the people asking are professionally trained law enforcement officials. What's the problem?

The last words of Steve Jobs may have well been "good luck, Tim <lol>. I'm outta here". I wouldn't want to go up against Samsung. When it comes to maintaining brand-image, they're not as clueless as Microsoft. I wouldn't count Apple out either, but it's going to be tough.

That's a bit harsh. At least 8.1 will send our local operating system searches to Bing. Thanks Microsoft!

I'm cool with that.. so long as he doesn't reach for a concealed chair when he's upset.

Your blood is boiling because you've probably been arguing with people who are otherwise unemployable, paid to sit at home and defend Windows 8/8.1. They're not paid to empathize with professionals who value workflow efficiency. When Microsoft comes out and says we've listened to your feedback, it only sucks more. But at least they'll show us ads when we search our file system. I was wondering when they'd fix that.

And for those of us used to MSDN, it's costing more and covers fewer products. To get Office, for example, requires their Premium subscription ($6,119.00 US).

In that sense, banks probably have as much remorse as state lotto officials. Being poor doesn't mean one is inherently bad at math. Many folks just don't take their finances seriously. What's the cure for that?

Install downward pointing finger-sized AGM-88s on the theater ceiling. Man, I'd sit through a 3hr movie called "The Life of Jar Jar Binks" just to see that used.

Red herring Linux? hmm, very sneaky of those guys!

8.1 is like eating glitter and taking a laxative. A quick release with questionable improvements.