No, but maybe Microsoft should. What's good for the goose.

Last I heard, they still sell Office 2013, though they're trying to push 365.

While I'm no Romney fan, odds are he'll be running against Hilary, who many people would classify as a demon.

Well, one fire, started by said lightning, could destroy my desktop, my laptops, and any backup media that's in my house. Which means my online backup IS the backup.

That brings up an interesting question. What happens when an unelectable candidate goes up against another unelectable candidate? One of them has to win, in which case s/he isn't unelectable by definition. Unless a 3rd party wins, but everyone knows they're unelectable.

Seems to me that Romney, or maybe Jeb, is as electable as Hilary.

I walked to school all the time. It was probably less than 1/2 mile, but I started at 5 or 6. I don't remember how old I was when roaming the neighborhood alone, but it was younger than 12, and I probably did a lot of it younger than 10. I went a lot of places I probably shouldn't have, did things that could have gotten me hurt but didn't, and I'm glad I got the chance to do such things. In the modern era, my mom would have been jailed for neglect, and I would have been a ward of CPS.

I'm not sure about that. It seems to me that the curiosity that led me to "explore" my neighborhood as a child also led me to explore tech later on.

I bought my first computer at Radio Shack. It was a Tandy 1000, XT compatible, with an 8088 processor, 2 floppy drives, and 384K RAM (which got upgraded to 640K). I haven't been in a Shack for many years (and apparently neither has anyone else), and I'm not surprised, but it is kind of sad.

Consider yourself lucky he didn't hit you with his mom's boots. Combat boots really hurt!

My mother WAS a prophet. She predicted that I'd get into trouble within a week, and sure enough I did. Given my track record, that wasn't exactly a difficult prediction, but still, it did come true.

Also, look at what people were used to. If they upgraded from Win 9X, they'd be happy to have an OS with uptime that's not measured in hours (or minutes in the case of Win95). NT4 was better than that, but I still had plenty of problems with it crashing. The problem with security is, you can't tell it's bad until you get pwned. Instability is as plain as the BlueScreen on your monitor, and prior to Win 2K, instability was Windows middle name.

IME, Win 8.1 isn't really that bad. The reason is, unlike 8.0, it boots to the desktop, and I seldom even see Metro.

Vista also hit the "sour spot" in RAM. If you didn't have 2G RAM, Vista was very slow. If you did have 2G or more, 32-bit Vista only saw the 2G, and was still slow.

Even if a language is more readable, the programs might not be. COBOL is supposed to be readable, but I've seen plenty of COBOL programs that could rival anything in C or Perl for unreadability.