Windows U
Windows XQZ
Ten (after the movie with Bo Derek)

You mean compared to X11 a.k.a. the X Window System ??

Ten will have a start button. How will it be different from Vista or XP?

If you have a Ph.D., you hopefully choice your research with care. If it is a theoretical topic, you should seek employment in academia or military. If it has practical applications, you should apply with a company that needs the fruits of your research or start your own company. You are convincing them to invest in your area of research: quite different from a MS in CS who looks for a menial job as a software engineer.

Mein Kampf is the only book that is not available in this country since the (national and Bavarian) government owns the copyright and refuses to print it. That copyright will expire next year.

I expect a colder winter for Europe and a less cold one for North-America.

The article says the city of Turin is planning to convert their ageing PC fleet to Linux. Hardware problems will be the inevitable result.

The Linux implementation lacks support for the Archive, Hidden, ReadOnly, and System file attributes; those are needed for MS-DOS support:-]

It is really a commercial question of where a distribution should focus its development efforts and where it can get revenues. Windows NT is a kernel too, but the desktop and server packages command quite different prices and embedded Operating Systems usually don't command a fee per device sold, just a flat fee for the manufacturer.

Practical programming skills have limited value and obsolesce quickly.

The inestimable Lord of Hosts hath decreed that 999,999 bittes per seconde shall be all that thou needest as thou surfest the Interweb.

Quality Control may sound like a good idea....and Microsoft should apply it to their own products or maybe even their own app store, but allow competitor's software to run on their wares.

If it's supposed to be available in October, that sort of implies that they've been beta testing for a year, now.

I guess he'll just continue Apple on its present course, just like Steve Ballmer did at Microsoft.

The ingredients for creating your own univerel:
- 26 % dark matter
- 69 % dark energy
- 5 % dark magic