Here, let me ram this FREE truncheon up your arse. No need to get butthurt about it. Some people are so ungrateful.

Why are you defending them? Technical people like us may understand all these issues but as far as the average Apple user is concerned this unwanted album turned up and now they have the hassle of removing it. Worse still there doesn't seem to be a way of blocking Apple from adding stuff to your music library in the future. Hopefully the outrage will stop them doing it again.

I was a teenager in the 90s and most of it was shit.

Around 1990 a major change happened where music was written before lyrics instead of the other way around. That made songs very hard to sing, if not impossible. The vocals often had to be sampled and sequenced because live performance was impossible. As someone who likes to sing that sucked.

1990 was also when the loudness war went atomic. Bad times.

...it won't have a single thing I need.

You can't have it both ways. If you lower corporation tax you either have to cut services or raise other taxes. There is a minimum outlay required to keep the roads drivable and legal system going etc. which corporations demand.

Ireland gets a lot of EU subsidy and the international companies based there are just shells. They bring no jobs or social benefits. Switzerland has high wages and high taxes on individuals.

Corporations want to be in our counties. They want local, skilled workers who can afford to live a reasonable life and be productive. They want education, roads, healthcare, services. They should pay for them, and won't leave if forced to.

I used "Jus' Sayin' " simply to denote something that the OP wanted, that was already present in an alternative OS (OS X).

As a user of OS X since 10.0.0, IMHO, The Finder, even at it's shittiest, is head and shoulders above any "explorer" version out of Redmond.

And at least Spotlight frickin' WORKS...

So what you are saying is that it's right when Apple does it. Features are pointless and never work until Apple does them. Essentially, only Apple can advance smartphone technology and any mistakes or lies should be forgiven because, well, it's Apple and we should be thankful.

For me the motivation to upgrade will be when I get a 4k monitor and want better high DPI support from Win 8/9. Windows 7 isn't bad but 8 not only looks better but it also supports different DPI settings for different monitors.

I have 7 on my desktop and 8 on my laptop. With Classic Start Menu I don't have any complaints with 8. In fact booting from cold to desktop in 4 seconds flat is very nice for a laptop when I want to quickly look something up.

Most people are fine with it once you install Classic Start Menu. There is some good stuff in 8, and it's not like Vista where performance went to hell and a lot of stuff just broke. Having different DPI settings on each monitor is nice, for example. All they really need to do with 9 is fix the start menu.

Having said that the multiple desktops feature looks nice. Something that should have been done years a go, but better late than never.

Thanks for the tip, I'll look into that.

Oh, you mean like this?

I'm just sayin d0gg it ain't that bad.

Yes. Yes it is.

That was my exact feeling. In fact, I have said multiple times about now it looks like Window 3.1... Only worse!

I have to deal with that POS GUI every single day at work. Makes me ever so glad to get home to my Mac, where I can have multiple overlapping windows, multiple desktops and real window-management.

Yeahrightsure.

But what does your face look like when they do this or this ?

And they didn't even have to get Gorilla Arm to do it!

which means they are bought and used for many years if not a decade or longer
your $50 or whatever you pay your ISP a month is not enough to afford new equipment every year