Your post is the reason why Slashdot is screaming towards the ground at 5000 mph. You (leftists) think people are generally stupid and that you have a superior intellect. You'll be one of those people screaming for the government to come help you when a disaster hits.

The people that you think are stupid and still managed to figure out the Ribbon, they'll be dealing with problems, fixing them and looking at you with contempt.

What complicated paywall? I get the WSJ delivered and full access to their online articles. All I did was the click the "Subscribe" button, put in my payment information and clicked "Submit". I even got a month free!

When did Slashdot become so liberal, I'm sorry, progressive?

Unrelated, why does trying to post a comment turn my i5 into a 386SX?

How far and fast this site has fallen that they mock their creator

"Until you have to install a new version on blank hardware. One of the really big annoyances with Windows is the initial install. Install Windows 7 (no SP). Now run Windows Update for the next 10 hours downloading and installing updates."

I can do a Windows 7 install on a new computer in less than two hours and have it fully up to date. I can actually do it using an image in about 17 minutes. People who install ANY operating system from scratch are the minority. Why don't you post on how much crap Ubuntu needs to update or "service pack fix" during a typical fresh install. I can totally make up numbers and times like you except I live in the real world where results count and either your're totally inept or a complete liar/fanboy.

Seriously this is the reason people don't take Slashdot seriously anymore.

Good Mail has full Exchange integration with the added bonus of not locking the user out from installing apps on their phone because security is freaking out. Plus it has the added bonus of allowing access to the company's internal website. We had a party when we turned off our Blackberry Enterprise server.

This is my last last Slashdot post. I'm tired of hearing the bashing of free markets. I'm tired of the bashing of Microsoft (exists in a free market) and Apple (also exists in a free market).

What have any of you actually accomplished over the last 20 years? Do you really think Valve is going to keep supporting you when the amount of messages bitching at them about how they should force nVidia and ATI to release their drivers exceeds by 10000000 percent the Valve programmers quitting because they have to support so many freaking libraries for every version and release of Linux that and its requirements?

Linux was a good idea, then the zealots got a hold of it and now its a pile of crap.

Time spent on arguing over what which WM is the best at fixing all of X's crap and pushing nay screaming at people how awesome Linux is and your grandma will totally pick it up (been hearing that for 15 years) and no innovation and vmware totally making the 1970's time share and the 90's thin client an actual reality and doing it right, well

Linux is crap, deal with it. Don't argue with me, don't lie to yourself, fix it.

I have been on this website for I don't know how long now. My user id number reflects that. It is so sad to have watched this once great site go from being the premier technology website to a tool of the left wing liberals. Every other article is about climate change or how this is bad and that is bad and now with the fact that the article used the word "zealous" when talking about 2nd Amendment right it has sunk to official suck ass status.

The school I went to that I now volunteer at for IT related issues when needed gave all the eighth graders iPads. Test score went up 43% and 67% among the so called "squirmers" that have trouble paying attention in class.

Most schools don't have chalk boards anymore, they use white boards or smart boards that let kids interact with the content of the lesson.

You sure you've got kids?

I still have my 60+ 3.5" floppies of Slackware with kernel 0.94 I believe. Took over a month to download on a 28.8 modem. The first time I typed startx after hand configuring X (yes XFConfig was available back then but my video card required hand coding) and the grey screen came up I went "Whoa!"
Patrick is the best. He doesn't release a new Slackware unless its been tested tested tested.
Anytime MythTV releases a new version I'll slap together a machine, put Slackware on it and give it a whirl. If you're a Ubuntu user and want to learn more about *nix but don't want to mess with Gentoo or a BSD, I totally recommend Slackware.

So they're going from one unknown though heavily hyped technology to a proven, stable, universally supported technology so they can develop for yet another unknown heavily hyped technology?

Did anyone send them the story a few above this one saying that the company that they're trying to compete against is going public in a month where they're expected to make billions of closed source dollars?"

What is this Geeknet, I seem to remember "Note: SourceForge and Slashdot are both part of VA Linux" and "Note: Sourceforge and Slashdot are both part of OSM"

I hope they go out of business. We are forced to use them if we want access to enterprise mail/calendar/contacts etc and the standard security policy is to not allow us to install apps. Not even the ones that came bundled with the phone, NOT EVEN THE GPS APP!! It took three weeks to get approval to get that installed. It doesn't help that the phones are just crap to begin with. I replaced my Tour with a Bold with the touchpad and the store swore to me it had OS 6 on it. No it didn't and it bricked itself installing one of the "approved" company apps. I did the whole hook rigamarow to get it back up and working and guess what! Magically OS 6 appeared and about $50 of the apps that I spent hours trying to get approval to install that I purchased myself don't work! What's even better is that Blackberry's App Store (once the OS is upgraded) refuses to acknowledge that you already paid for the apps once and you get to pay for them all over again! Plus about half of them didn't work with OS 6!!!! I freaking hate RIM.

My first computer was TI94/A that came with 2KB of RAM which I expanded to 4KB through a giant brick that plugged into the back of it. Kaypro...also, my balls are bigger than yours.

Yeah, like Zuckerberg and the OP actually have friends!

Wouldn't it be easier to just setup quotas in Active Directory?

We're starting to move to VMware's Virtual Desktops which makes a lot of these obsolete

We have people spread all over the country working out of their homes where I spend hours each month cleaning up the latest Farmbook Toolbar or whatever fake virus scanner they've installed or etc, etc etc because they have to have Admin access. VD's take this away from them and make my life easier so go VD's!"