Athlon XP?

So many mobile devices run on ARM, and it's expanding its use so rapidly, the only surprise is that Microsoft has taken so long to get to it.

Sorry, but that's just lame.

No.

So much for my "Tijuana Donkey App"...

Scared anonymous wombat!

You lie like peeg!

This is not thread hijacking but the very heart of the matter.

I went to Pinche Cabron Medical School in Guadalajara and I'm now doing brain surgeries out of the back of my van in a mall in Topeka.

And making quite a nice living too, thank you.

Damn ObamaCare!

It looks like it's more dangerous to attack the Russian mafia than the US government.

It means we're eventually looking at one giant IT company that controls everything!

"Microappacle-EMC" will have one OS, one set of server protocols, and one line of shoddy consumer goods at ridiculous prices.

OMFG!

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

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.

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"...

Not only did it beat Chrome 5 (3 versions behind the current), it also beat hell out Netscape Navigator 4.0 and Firefox 1.1...

So how's that merger with Microsoft working out?

Yahoo just let 600 people go in San Francisco:

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

And now this.

It looks like everything Microsoft touches turns to sh#t these days...

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.