There's also Chromium and ChromiumOS, AOSP, VP8, V8...

You understood wrong. Google it at all and you'll find that it was an upgrade to 20GB for one year. I even remembered that on my own.

You're right, #3 doesn't guarantee happiness, only that you can pursue it. Until proper broadband is at least available everywhere, #3 isn't met.

Which ones work improperly? The Fire *is* still Android, it just lacks Google, including its authentication layer. Apps may be tailored to the Fire because it has a non-smartphone screen resolution and lacks the newer APIs for addressing that automatically.

Only if July 9, 2008 (MobileMe/iDrive) predates April 23, 2008 (Live Mesh Beta [it never exited beta]). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Mesh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobileMe#MobileMe

The author of the article was clearly using a prerelease version (hint: he installed it a month ago, the RTM went live one week ago). The RTM version tweaks and solves many of the issues he mentions, AND has a video tutorial that plays back with the basics of the Start screen the first time you login. Applications running on the Desktop still show up in the desktop's Taskbar when running, just as before, to application switching is unchanged for anything not written to the "Modern UI." Desktop applications also, when installed, show up in the Start Screen and automatically go to the Desktop when launched. Fact: Steam showed up there when I installed it. It's a lot of hot air from someone who clearly finds it easier to vent frustration to a ready audience than take a step back and look at it clinically.

Patriotism isn't bigotry. Nationalism approaches bigotry. Pretentious sigs are pretentious.

Skydrive has a synchronization application for Windows and OSX. It has for months.

The non-Touch Kindle as described goes for $79 here in the U.S. If you want to waterproof it, put it in a clear ziploc bag.

True, but I'd bet the OP was talking about laptop screens.

Did you then buy the physical book so that the author could get paid?