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Comment Re:man (Score 1) 311

Google, for instance, added nearly 3,500 employees to its work force so for this year and promised everyone raises of at least 10 percent next year. The company, based just a few miles away from Yahoo's Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters, also gave all 23,300 of its workers an after-tax holiday bonus of $1,000.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/12/13/financial/f192043S08.DTL#ixzz18KJ9rQue

Comment Re:man (Score -1, Troll) 311

I would cordially like to invite whoever modded the post above as flamebait for telling the unvarnished truth about Microsoft to grab an idea about how moderation works.

If you disagree with something or don't like what it says, that gives you no right to mod it down.

Grow a pair.

Comment Re:I beg to differ (Score 1) 349

That's nice.

So Windows OS goes walkabout occasionally.

If your data isn't corrupted you're probably not looking at anything worse than a "last best configuration" or an OS re-install.

Imagine you've got a critical project due immediately and the web goes tits-up (as shaw.ca does around here occasionally).

Unless you're well backed up locally, you're hosed.

Welcome to "The Cloud"...

Comment Re:Win7 (Score 1) 188

If Microsoft voluntarily did what gets done to monopolies - breaking them up into smaller companies - they might still have a chance.

I have no doubt there's plenty of brain power in Redmond.

It's the corporate culture that sucks in so many ways that have been discussed here: including FUD, top-down inflexibility, and straitjacketed thinking.

Imagine Microsoft spinning off a "mostly independent" skunkworks to develop a next-gen tablet (or anything else).

I think the results might be surprising.

Comment Re:UI Upgrade? (Score 2) 188

I for one look forward to the brilliant success of the Windows tablet, in an unbroken string of triumphs from DOS to the Windows phone!

After all they invented "innovation"...

They're so clever they can make their Windows 7 OS work in anything... even in computers!

Comment Re:If decision wrong, it won't stand (Score 1) 82

Also, the SCOC has the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to rely on, and they've been pretty clear that "freedom of expression" (albeit with greater limitations than in the US) is not something they want to mess with unless there's a very good reason.

I'd be very surprised if they hobble hyperlinking because some puffed up twit doesn't like what the hyperlink says about him

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