I can believe that MS has 75% market share for x86 servers simply because you can replace a whole host of Windows servers with a single Linux box

Also each MS virtual machine is another server while in some cases even a multi-rack linux cluster is considered as one.

Especially since they actually had a decent *nix back in the day. If they'd based things on that instead of a bastard grandchild of CP/M and VMS after thalidomide then we'd have a lot less to complain about.

Matrox had one back then that was half decent but it got broken by later versions of MS Windows. Nvidia still has a multiple desktop thing packaged with Quatro cards which has gone in cycles from perfect to flaky and back again. The MS one was proof of concept and may have worked initially but it turned into a certain blue screen timebomb a while after it had become abandonware. There were various others that worked for a while but nothing you could use for the long term.
It's almost as if it was a purchase requirement for a sale and abandoned later, but I suspect it's more a series of projects that were not maintained.

Depends on the workflow. Having two separate things open at once is a fairly common thing.

I find it rather interesting Microsoft is /finally/ introducing native, proper, workspaces.

Apple did it so MS were sure to follow. Pity they didn't do it with Win95.

To use more memory. Admittedly you can solve that with the 64 bit XP if you have hardware it supports, or you can get server 2003 which is similar to XP, or you can roll back to Win2k to get away from the fucking stupid memory ceiling in XP if you have more than one core (I've still got a 6GB Win2k machine lurking in storage to run some legacy software every couple of years).
If you don't need more memory, as with a couple of receptionists computers in my workplace, XP does the job up to at least MS Office 2010.

Having different DPI settings on each monitor is nice

Cool, so now you can party like it's 1994!
Surely they had that stuff before - or maybe it was only in addon software from Matrox, Nvidia etc.

It's one of those things that I'm glad it's there, I wish I had time

You've got plenty of time to run something down with comments that were barely accurate way back when you had to install Slackware from floppy disks. Drivers come with linux instead of having to be downloaded like on MS.

True, but I see soviet style partisan propaganda the runs contrary to reality and indeed truth as being illegitimate unless it's being paid for as an advertisement.

If you think not, then cite specific examples of your claims.

Yet another example of a hardworking Comrade of The Party attacking it's opponents I see - YOU are the one that was making wild claims while I haven't written much other than calling you out on it.

WTF is it with you losers "charging at windmills". Solar is more mainstream than the politics you are pushing - and you know why - people are making money out of it without ripping others off. Please stop pushing your outdated authoritarian anti-capitalistic bullshit and your horror that people are free to buy panels and put them on their roofs.

No it was Apple, but Adobe is probably even worse.

Not a bad government - they did exactly what they were paid to do :(
One guess who owns AU foxtel, US fox news and is a big political donor.

It's not like that at all, we have very lax media controls.
I know you gun nuts think it's gone all Thunderdome over here since we restricted automatic weapons, but could you please refrain from making up utter bullshit about us on every fucking topic under the sun?

OK then - greed combined with political and market power. It's about protecting the profits of Rupert Murdoch's Foxtel which is the only game in town - everything else is being kept out.

It would provide unwanted competition to Rupert Murdoch.
Your second point is not correct or relevant since people are already using Netflix in Australia despite deliberate steps being made to stop them.

Travel+Holiday expenses+mac at US price (LessThan) same mac at AU price