Funny thing is back around 1998, when the students were away I'd run the "atlantis" screensaver as the animated background of my cheap little linux box with all the grunt work being done by a big SGI machine in the next building. Install a version of X11 on your MS box (xwin32 etc) and you can have a video background and party like it's 1999!
I'm sure there's other ways already build into the desktop background changer of win7.

While you're there, make it a free feature to put a corporate signature in Exchange without poncing about with transport rules and copying files down to clients. 20 years and we still don't have the SIMPLEST of things done right.

Putting the MS Exchange collection behind a purpose designed MTA (sendmail, exim, cast of thousands) and getting that to add the signature is the easiest way to do it - bonus points if it's used to hold and scan mail for virus or spam before it can put any load on MS Exchange and make the fragile thing fall over.

Reminds me of how the ads should have run:
"Windows, because copying Apple was my idea."

With a combination of window snapshots, multiple desktops and RDP that does not entirely suck it appears MS is close to catching up with the Enlightenment window manager on X from a year or two before Slashdot started. Or Xerox "rooms" from way back.

There was a Matrox virtual desktop thing from years back that was decent too, and I've seen an Nvidia one. However saying "that feature has been in windows" is like saying photoshop has been in windows :)
There was a "powertoy" but it wasn't able to run reliably as the MS Windows environment changed - a 100% chance of bluescreen per day.

It nerfed the file sharing of NT4 to only a few connections and make workgroups useless, forcing us back to a central server model - preferably one with SAMBA instead of an arbitrary connection limit.
That loss of a feature is actually what pushed my workplace from NT4 + Hummingbird Exceed to linux desktops nearly everywhere. If MS Windows machines can't talk to MS Windows machines effectively and that's the only reason you are on the platform then why stay on it?

You forgot Vista. I wish I could.

Powershell is useful just as a scripting language.

I don't get the point of it when python and a pile of other mature scripting languages work on MS Windows.

Me too if it can run win7. For example there's USB camera control software that can't run on Win8 and a tablet makes a nice big viewfinder for a digital camera.

Cite your sources

http://en.windfinder.com/weather-maps/report/germany#5/51.179/10.459

You then said it might not be actual law

I did not write that. That law just does not the implications that you, and it appears Luckyo way above, suggest it does. It's a priority queue for scraps and not about bringing 5GW offline to let wind have a go.

Talent and balls seem to be absent in these decisions.

They have a toxic "kill off one from every team" workplace culture which apparently gets rid of balls and breaks up talented teams or makes them focus too much on conflict than the job.

Most frequently used does not always mean the thing you should optimize the design for.

Did you even read that post above? Calm down and think about the topic instead of getting angry because I remind you of some political baggage or something. You want to know about wind power - I'm telling you a few things about it instead of disparaging it or advocating it.

I've been fairly civil with you despite your pushing so many things that do not refute my statement that the wind is always blowing somewhere so what's the big deal here?
I see odd points on that graph but no trend - and besides it's a portion of the European grid and my statement above was clearly about dealing with large grids and not point sources.

I will be sure to remind you in the future that you contend wind needs a lot of down time for maintenance.

So? It's true in comparison to thermal power and photovoltaics. You are interested in the topic so I'm telling you stuff and also part of the reason why I wrote way above "I've never had anything to do with windmills and don't even like them much". Way above I was kicking back against an idiot "ends justifies the means" nuke fanboy on the attack on another alternative energy - you just decided to jump and and get caught in the backwash of his ridiculous lie.
Like windmills or not they are mainstream things now because they have a niche where they can be useful. The Chinese are not "green" yet they have a lot of the things.