Certainly you would not make such a series of scathing allegations without solid proof.

Would you?

Or is that just another idea that somebody else invented, but Apple perfected? Then Microsoft steals the idea from Apple?

In the early 1990s, Apple was suing everybody over this "look and feel" nonsense.

Apple has to be the ultimate patent trolling software company. Especially considering their patents are mostly over silly design issues that Apple did not even "invent."

But as horrible as Apple is, Microsoft comes close.

One tiny tablet, and you get all the vitamins you need, and then some.

I constantly get statements from ATT saying "we have deducted this money from your bank account" I have been getting them for two years, at least.

ATT tells me it is a glitch in their system, and not to worry about it.

So far, no money has been wrong deducted, that I am aware of.

However, I do not consider this to be confidence inspiring.

Faster boot? Faster shutdown? Less crapware? Less malware? Less rebooting? Less vendor lock-in? Longer battery life?

I don't really know, but those are possibilities. All of those things certainly apply to ChromeOS.

> You forgot the one where he knowingly and intentionally violated the law.

So did Rosa Parks.

Maybe more relevant examples of such law breakers would be Ben Franklin, or Daniel Ellsberg?

Is Snowden in the same class as these patriots?

> Like Edward Snowden, Benjamin Franklin Was Called a Traitor For Informing the People About the Actions of its Government
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/like-edward-snowden-benjamin-franklin-was-called-a-traitor-for-informing-the-people-about-the-actions-of-its-government.html

> Pentagon Papers Leaker Daniel Ellsberg Praises Snowden, Manning
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/03/208602113/pentagon-papers-leaker-daniel-ellsberg-praises-snowden-manning

I have used several. Right now I have a quad-core AMD 64-bit. I am using CentOS 6.5.

Gotta think long term.

MS has been pulling the same scams for decades. Bottom line: you cannot trust Microsoft. Not now, not ever. MS is going to do everything it can to force people onto win8, everybody knows it.

Maybe China has finally wised up?

As soon as you reverse engineer windows, MS will change something so that your reverse engineered version is no longer compatible.

Look at MS does with it's ms-office formats.

In linux, the source code is visible, makes it harder to hide stuff.

In my experience - and I have quite a lot - linux is *far* more secure than windows.

Closing ports, or whatever, is ridiculously simple. Finding hidden code in a binary distribution is much tougher.