> As a result, during Yosemite's open beta last year, people we're complaining that the software
> "wasn't ready for prime time". No kidding!

Well, in an old school beta program, that would have been an alpha-release, at best!

No different to trusting Microsoft to not send your data to them when they do virus checks. You're already trusting the food chain, doctors etc.

You're confusing open source and free. It's open source. You can see the source, use it, change it, and fork it, subject to certain restrictions, such as not calling it Truecrypt. Seems fair to me. Whether this or that distro has decided to include it or not tells us very little.

How can they prove that I am not a member?

What "VPN industry"? To the extent it exists at all it's just tiny. And they're going to get legislated out of existence around the world in the next few years. No government - driven by the twin demands of the US government (ok, and their own security services) - and a reactionary, right wing media (following the rules of its wealthy, right wing proprieters, who've invested in and therefore benefit from large corporations who are all in bed with most western governments because they don't need to pay tax that way) - will allow people to communicate in private because "that's what terrorists do" (and people who want to challenge/change the above)

Wrong choice of word, surely?

"destroy utterly; wipe out."

If you did obliterate it then they've have zero chance of recovering the information.

Uh..you might not know it's upside down, smart arse. So you'd have to try it in both rotations. These people are probably smarter than even you; why not sit down, shut up and learn something?

Windows 10? IE? Did you miss the email?

At the point a judge sentences someone, the criminal has already done a bunch of bad things knowing full well they're going to get a long punishment. Very few of them will want to take it out on the judge, unless they believe the case was handled unfairly. It's much more likely the they'll want to get back at the police who - even if the criminal WAS a criminal and did most of the things they were accused of - possibly threatened the criminals family (girlfriend/wife usually) if they didn't confess to their and/or other people's crimes.

They're ditching Samsung - not Google - apps for Microsoft ones. So it's just a different sort of crapware. It'll get uninstalled before too long, or not used. It does nothing to bridge the gap between Android and Windows Mobile or whatever its called (I don't even care any more). Nothing to see here.

> but you can buy a perfectly capable Android tablet for half the price of an iPad right now if you
> don't mind a clunkier UI.

I've got the (now retired) Nexus 10, running lollipop. Before that, kitkat. What's clunky about either of them. I find it much easier to use than an iPad.

LOL! You're 100% right, except in the eyes of the shareholders, and consumers. They're (almost) literally printing money:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busi...

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US technology giant Apple has reported the biggest quarterly profit ever made by a public company.

Apple reported a net profit of $18bn (£11.8bn) in its fiscal first quarter, which tops the $15.9bn made by ExxonMobil in the second quarter of 2012, according to Standard and Poor's.
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You're saying that they were making more money before 1999, and that's when they started going downhill? Perhaps you're just talking about your own opinion?

People don't want Microsoft stuff at home. It's a toxic brand. It's Office..it's white and upper case..it's "please reboot now"...it's "your hard drive light never stops flashing"...internet explorer needs an update....pay to update your virus checker....we've removed the start button...enter your password...change your password....your password is incorrect.

Fuck that.

Pick up tablet. Press power button. Use device. Install software from a single place. Receive updates immediately from the same place.

You're confused. "I don't know....I can't see...Just pay a bit more...Couple more iterations...jam tomorrow.". You're going about it all wrong. Couple more iterations and Apple/Android will be that much further ahead. Microsoft needs to produce something cheaper and better than Apple, not hack together a half tablet, half laptop, heavy, poor battery life thing and hope people buy it. Look at the surface. Look at the iPad or Android tablet (Nexus 10, Samsung tab pro 8.4).

"But for people who actually want to get work done, or create something, it's a useless device." Apple's just made more money in a quarter than any other company in history. People must love useless devices. Microsoft has entered that arena now, in a manner of speaking, with the surface, but they've sort of missed the point, which is why it's selling so very badly.

> spent a lot on R

I actually typed something like "R and D and" with the ampersand, but clearly that's asking too much.

Uh.. Microsoft essentially had a couple of products they thought (the monopoly on which) would last forever. Google (and the other large modern internet companies) are much more aware of the current state of what's going on (because they're responsible for it). Microsoft just panics and throws money at stuff no-one wants. Crappy phone OS, nokia, Zune, silly compromise-heavy tabtops (see what I did there?) etc. They produced an awful OS, held a straight face when everyone else said "meh, no thanks" which cost them a lot. If they've learnt anything it's at the expense of a lot of missed profit. Google have always spent a lot on R doesn't come across as panicking to stay relevant like Microsoft. Now Microsoft is giving away their new OS, open sourcing their dev tools, suffering increasingly against Google Docs (and other free office apps). If I had stock in Microsoft I'd be concerned that they don't have a plan. I don't see Google as being in the same boat as they have a more much stable history in profiting from innovation, even if not every project they attempted turned out 100% positive.