Read the rest of the article.They found that pinning is popular.

Good. It should be obvious by now, but that is what I do. I've pinned 23 items to my Start Menu: Assorted Libraries, Calculator, Command Prompt, Firefox, IE, Chrome, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.

If they don't have pinning or something like it ... (O-o)

You what else?!? Somethings don't have a context menu option to "Pin"them. Only LATER did I find I could still drag and drop something and Windows would pin it instead of of moving the link/program/etc. Yay for inconsistency!
/rant

Gah! Pinning to the taskbar! Horrible!

They took away* Quick launch, so I tried using the taskbar as my "go to place" for shortcuts, but pinning it to it sucked.

I therefore switched to pinning things to the Start Menu (even though there is no Right click - > "Sort my pinned items by name" option). Now they want to take it away?!? Not cool.

I've put a few hours of testing in with the Windows 8 Developers preview, and let me tell you, if users don't know how to use shit now, wait till they see tiles. Can you click and drag to swipe? Noooo. You have to use the scroll wheel. Can you ever reach the edge of the tiles by scrolling? Nooooo.


*Hid it/buried it/made it generally inaccessible

Judge went above and beyond in the scope of his/her ruling so far that he/she is blindly favoring the MPAA:

http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html

The article linked to is lifted from Gizmodo, word for word. Check the "From" link on the linked to site, and you'll see.

I switched from "Luna" (I think) to Aero, when I switched from XP to Windows 7.

I love Start Search, Aero Peek, Aero Snap...

On the otherhand, I'm not too happy with how MS combined the Task Bar with the Quick Start area. Grouping application windows on the task bar kind of bothers me. I wish I could group and ungroup application windows quickly, so I didn't have to chose between grouped or ungrouped. Pinning documents to icons in the Quick Start area is an odd metaphor. I think recent documents/files belong in a list somewhere else.

If you would like to continue tethering...here are details on the plan:
-DataPro 4GB for Smartphone Tethering
--$45 per month (this gives you 4GB in total, combining both your smartphone data plan for $25 and the tethering feature, $20)

Users don't always notice the speed gap because websites are sometimes tailored to mobile phones, Blaze said. The difference will become more obvious as users demand richer experiences and move to tablet computers with larger screens, said Guy Podjarny, chief technology officer of Blaze, whose business is helping companies increase website download times.

Maybe their customers are ISPs who charge by usage?

Windows Mobile 6.1 and 6.5 phones handle the Exchange Active Sync (EAS) protocol great. You can buy a mainstream HTC Touch HD2 or Touch Pro 2 and sync all you like on my Exchange server if you work in my organization.

There are two rasons why I use a Touch Pro 2:
1. Full EAS support.
2. Google has chosen to snub MS by making Android (for the moment, at least) support remote wipe and encryption only through Google Apps accounts.

SCENE: MOZILLA FIREFOX WINDOW

Firefox title bar: "Access to this site is blocked"
Firefox document body:

Content blocked by your organization

Reason:
This Websense category is filtered: Denied.

URL: http://www.facebook.com/

Options:
Click more_information to learn more about your access policy.
Click Go_Back or use the browser's Back button to return to the previous page.

More_information link leads to this not-so-helpful explanation:
Your Websense policy blocks this page at all times.

/facepalm

And we demand... a shrubbery!


Ni!

No, that's OK. Verizon already gave my my money back for my Droid Incredible powered by Google.

In other words, google is making it a lot more complicated and inconvenient. My current WinMo phone does this better. Let's compare.

Currently, if I want to reach a company, I use one type of interaction: voice interaction. It goes like this:
1. I tell my phone, "Call GOOG 411." My phone asks me if I want to call "GOOG 411" or whatever and gives me a chance to confirm or correct myself.
2. I ask GOOG 411 for "Company X, Anytown USA"
3. I listen to the results. Google gives me a chance to verify them and correct myself.
4. I say which result I want. Google calls the business for me.
All that without taking my eyes off of what I'm doing (walking, driving, doing the dishes, taking out the trash).

Soon, when I want to reach a company, I'll have to do a more complicated routine:
1. Launch Voice Search (VS for short).
2. Ask for "Company X, Anytown USA."
3. Voice Search terminates.
4. To review the results on the screen, I have to take my eyes off what I am doing.
5. If they're incorrect, I'm out of luck. My current VS session has ended and I need to start over.
6. Assuming I found what I wanted, I try to remember the phone number of the business I want to reach.
7. I launch Voice Actions (VA for short).
8. I tell Voice Actions to dial the ten digit number I've hopefully remembered.
9. VA doesn't ask me if it understood me correctly. I watch the screen to see if has. If VA got it wrong, I have to launch VA again.

This is ridiculous. Notice how Google has made me take twice as many steps to reach a business. Notice how Google is forcing me to mix three types of interaction: -Voice interaction to initiate search and make the call
-Screen viewing to check the results
-Touch interaction to scroll through the results

What a step back in functionality this is! I hope Google is paying attention and fixes this. Until they do, I have good reason to stick with my WinMo phone. It does hands-free stuff better.