Nah, I google with bing all the time.

I think they're already ahead of Apple with they're universal apps. It's nice that if I pay for an app for my phone I get it for Win8 too. iOS and OSX still seem a long ways apart in many ways.

Regardless, MS just wants this clearly spelled out so people know what the rules are and that they'll be the same rules for Google, Amazon, Apple etc.

I don't like having things on my wrist and I don't mind taking my phone out of my packet to check the time.
I'm certainly not going to pay $350+ for one that has to be charged at least once a day.

They know they won't win. I think MS is trying to force a clear judgment so everyone going forward knows what the rules are. My understanding is that they don't have a good case because the person in the case is a US citizen. If I commit a crime and the evidence is in a Hilton hotel room in the UK nobody expects Hilton to hold onto that evidence just because it happened to be in one of their hotels outside the US.
So I think the concern by other countries is over done. In this case it's a US citizen and a US company. But MS wants that clearly spelled out to reassure people.

I'll never use Apple Pay but I hope it takes off any way so a lot more stores will upgrade their readers which in turn I hope will cause the credit card companies to issue more secure cards.

I work in a shared code environment. Visual Studio has no issue with nested templates without the space. But I still have to add the space so my Mac friends down the hall stay happy.

I'd rather get some cryptic information about stop codes or an error message than a condescending sad face accompanied by a reboot request. At least I can look up the code and get a ballpark idea what the issue is without firing up windbg.

I've had bad luck with using USB drives for backup in general. Two seagates and two Toshiba drives died before I got a synology unit. It's been rock solid so far.

If there's one lesson I learned from Star Trek it's that you always, ALWAYS, include a manual override.

Microsoft has less leverage with the OEMs than ever. You can get crapware free systems from the Microsoft store. They all come configured by MS without the crapware.

I get 5TB of storage with my Office 365 accounts which is way more than I really need. There's just no point in paying for another service like Dropbox anymore.

Don't see why not. My current Win8.1 machine boots in under 4 seconds.

Sure, just sweep under the rug all the complaints made by so many of the people who actually tried to use the system.

Windows Mojave was also better received than Vista and it *was* Vista.
Once perception sets in it's hard for people to change even if they don't even try it.