Forbid them from selling their stuff in the EU. Somewhere between a quarter and a third of Oracles income comes from the EU. That is a significant amount of money they cannot afford to lose.

As the saying goes: keep your feet on the ground instead of your head in the clouds.

But how many things in the windows OS actually use a ribbon interface? Almost none.

They are talking about smartbooks, not netbooks.

ehh? Microsoft has an OS that is suited for such devices. Either windows embedded CE or Windows Embedded nav ready.
Or even the CE derivative Windows mobile.

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsembedded/dd630116.aspx

ehm, I checked on my netbook running windows 7 RC (32 bit) and the debug command is still there.

There is only one english language, which originated in a country called England. The other one is just a strange dialect for people that don't know how to spell correcly.

Why do you have to replace s with z in so many words and why are all those u's missing?

That should only be the case for native applications.
For pure .NET applications (fully MSIL) is should not matter as long as the runtime is available..

The same counts for me. It is sometimes very hard to read what the captchas supposed to be.

On one site I actually did some image processing to make the captcha readable. It was more readable for me, but not yet readable enough for a computer. If I processed it more it might be.

If I can do that with my limited knowledge of image processing, someone experienced can do this very easy and automated.