Just because others do the same things does not absolve Microsoft. They are today's topic, their man chose it to be. So there you go.

Those mentioned in the posting run vxworks not linux. Troll better next time.

They have the same content OTA. Read the other replies.

Now, this may be news to some people but... not everybody who comments on /. lives in 'murica bud.

Do they still display/run ads? If they do, then content is paid for and they get even more eyeballs to watch the ads.

The data from the Blackblaze study is fine, it's not flawed, it's real. The issue is how it's being interpreted and the conclusions drawn from it and also with the lack of more data such as how old were the drives that failed vs. the one that were being "very reliable" etc...

Two things:

1) TotalBiscuit is part of the Polaris MCN. He's also a partnered channel... thus he did not face recent wave of bullshit from Youtube and the music industry. AngryJoe is also part of Polaris IIRC but only an affiliate so the BS wave hit him as hard as it did the others. He is slowly recovering

2) Sleazy Youtube MCN + sleazy software and hardware company == love. MS and Machinima sitting in the money tree....

Just a re-negotiation. MS has to give up a few inches (read money) and it will have these idiots by the balls, again. It's Windows 7 that they want? Fine... it looks like that's where the next version of Windows will, finally, be able to provide a proper desktop where it's needed and a touch interface if the hw supports that. Yay! They/we won! Right?....Guys?....

I'm not getting my hopes up. HW manufacturers are a bunch of pussies.

Don't use those nasty digital currencies because we have no control over them and make no money on your transactions.

Also because: terrorism, child porn. criminals, insert_scare_word here...

Nokia: We swears! We swears on.... on the preciousssss.

And we all know how well that went. Just wait until there'll be another, more "friendly" commissioner or until they'll "persuade" the current one.

Ed Bott has been sucking the Microsoft tit for years and he loves it. But don't believe me, go check his articles up on ZDnet and see just how many of them cover all things Microsoft.

In one of his articles he tells us just how much he loves Outlook.com. Link provided for convenience:
http://www.zdnet.com/why-i-use-outlook-com-for-my-custom-email-accounts-and-how-you-can-too-7000015546/

Yes people still use it to make money. Like these guys: http://www.ritlabs.com/

Yeah. Sure it is. Got proof?

Soccer addiction, basketball addiction, golf addiction, any_sport addiction along with other addictions such as gardening, collecting stamps, book reading and whatever other activities can be considered as being fun, entertaining and thus "extremely" addictive.

This the good old panacea that people were selling in dark bottles in the old days. Here buddy drink this and you'll re-grow your hair and your dick will be hard as a rock! Honest!

My position is that they address the problem in a completely wrong manner. It's in the part that you've completely left out when quoting me.