If your mission critical app is 30 years, why would you use XP?

You get charged for bandwidth so don't think it's cheap

So what you are telling me is there is a shortage because you aren't willing to market value for good programmers, but you won't take average programmers either. So what exactly is this supposed to solve? You'll just end up with a bunch of average programmers in the end anyway because the good programmers will be attracted away by market forces.

Maybe what you need to do is increase the pay to make it a more attractive place to work.

Where is this shortage or programmers problem coming from? Last I check there are lots and lots of them. If they are looking for good programmers, they wont solve it by offering one course...

could a really smart ant model the entire earth?

I'm always amused by posts like this. You're bitching at MS because they are not #1, yet if there were #1 you would be bitching at them too!

Someone is willing to pay me 16$ to install firefox, why would the firefox terms and conditions apply to me? I'm not selling their product.

All I see there is calling some method to do something complicated. It's not 2 lines of code of the actual meat is hidden somewhere.

Only Madagascar can shut down everything

To really understand metro, you have to watch the development videos at microsoft virtual academy website.

Somehow their UI designers came up with this ridicilous notion that your apps don't need any "distract" menus or system icons and it should only display content. Content is the king they say, none of those resizing bars or window icons or anything. This is the main reason why metro apps look like that.

It's like someone designed a car and said.. "you don't doors once you're in the car all you need is the road". To that I say "getting in and out a car shouldn't be an un-intuitive mess dumbass"

I thought Nokia sold its devices division to Microsoft. Also they already have their low end Asha platform

Hate Ballmer all you want but that dude knew how to make money.

Aren't windows 8 and 8.1 the same thing?

Doesn't seem like much over 4 years. I suspect it's running at loss at least 2 of those 4 years.

Since nobody wants to part with their bitcoin, he will be funding his campaign with fiat currency while reaping the benefits of being to the first to accept bitcoin. It's a win win