Propably not

However if they made some software for some Microsoft branded computer they would be allowed to limit the use of that software to that computer.

Okay, you give me a million euro's and i'll give you a million dollars...

A good touch interface is easy to use and can be fairly efficient however in many cases keyboard and mouse beat it speed wise. I can know, I work on a touch based point of sale application. I also can tell you those things are only comfortable to work on if you are standing. Which often puts the keyboard to low to be able to type comfortably. In my opinion apple is doing the right thing by using large multi touch touchpads and no touch screens. Especially on laptops touch screens have the problem of requiring a fairly strong hinge to standup to the poking or the touch screen has to be so sensitive that it triggers each time your fingers just brush the screen accidently.

In the property window that is true however windows explorer will report the filesize in the size column of the details view. Even a file of only 1 byte will be reported as 1kiB and this is NOT the cluster size, that's 4kiB (just verified this claim on Windows XP Professional SP3).

As far as I know NTFS and HFS+ and most other filesystems all use 4kB pages in most cases.

One nice touch about file size oreporting in OSX is the way it handles related files. I mean when you have an image there is a very good change there is also a hidden file containing a thumbnail for the file. The size of this hidden file is added to the size of the normal file in the finder. So you do not get the effect that the total of the files doesn't match the total folder size. On the other hand it can be confusing when your images decrease in size when you upload them because the hidden thumb is not uploaded.

There will be a box however for tiger users containing Snow Leopard, iLife 09 and iWork 09 for $169.

But maybe they could make more money in the same time doing something else which makes doing a linux port the wrong choice for a commercial business.

Then get a Mac atleast you will have unix underneath.

Nope that's the wrong word. It is called copyright violation. Maybe you like to call it stealing because you think it is just as bad. Well maybe it is but that doesn't give you the right to change the meaning of the word stealing. Stealing in the context of music would be if person A composed a song and person B registers the copyrights for it. Now person B has stolen the rights on the song instead of violating them.

I started off in the PC world with a 486DX/33, with 256K or RAM and a 20Mb hard drive

Was this a system build from spare parts? It is a weird configuration. Allmost every 486 that was sold had 4 MB of RAM in it and a standard harddrive at that time was about 100MB. The amount of memory is especially low as a 486DX would require 4 SIMMS because it had a 32-bit data bus and the simms where only 8 bits. So you had 4 simms of 64 kB each!?

It's a woman Nicole Noone.

Wrong any non trivial Windows desktop application cannot be recompiled for windows mobile as windows mobile implements only a very limited subset of the full Win32 API.