1) Only applies to 2G/GSM, not 3G/UMTS
2) This has been known pretty much from the beginning, and updating has been started years ago. As said in TFA, only news of this is the plan to make it publicly available.

The point is not to be virtual reality, but rather "wiimote v2". I.e. it will allow new types of gameplay for casual gamers that don't enjoy (=can't handle) button mushing with a pad. It's MS's response/evolution to Nintendo's innovation on motion controlled gaming. It's not going to revolutionalize gaming, but it's big enough for Sony to realize they can't be only one without.

Why, oh why is this annexed with Windows 7. The release of either affects the other in no way what-so-ever. If Ubuntu beta/rc is not news worthy by itself, releasing on the same day with Win7 doesn't change that in any way. And yes, even one sentence about what's new in this would not hurt...

Here in Finland most mobile & broadband operators charge for the bill. Manual, email and electronic bills are free. There were some outbreaks when the first one did it, but it was eventually accepted (and got a lot of people using electronic billing). Personally, I prefer the electronic billing as you can't lose bills when you get them directly to your bank account.

This is where you need free press that attack like a pack of pitbulls and demand to know who ordered the cancellation and why. Nothing teaches politicians honest like public humiliation.

As concrete example to parent, do you think the EU investigations have been started by independent EU bureaucrats analyzing the markets and discovering potential issues. The reason MS is getting more heat is that competition is organizing and "feeding the intel". And as parent said, it's not necessarily a problem. The competition should keep an eye of of each other as they are best qualified to identify abuse.

...Google has been convening with other companies that see Microsoft as a threat and trying to lobby different Washington interest groups "Microsoft as a big bad technology company".

I.e. a practise otherwise discribed as a standard procedure of strategic competition in corporate America. You don't have to like it, but it's not exactly news. Catching them in the act of trying to bribe a congressmen/senators would be news.

Considering that ActiveSync is already the number one mail solution in Nokia (E-series) devices and they have for a long time included office viewers, I don't really thinks this is anything that major. Nokia recognises that Office & Exchange are a necessity for their business customers and want to support that. Microsoft on the other hand would bring Office to Android if that would further their Office-business. If anything, Nokia is trying to get advantage over iPhone as a corporate phone.

The funny part is that the "why does pepsi suck" in Bing gives a result "Why Windows Vista sucks".. The only point is that if you want to ask a semantic question (and not just find specific terms), you really need to use the parentheses. That's all folks, move along...

Except that putting that same query to Google will give this result in the first page:

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/why-are-macs-so-expensive--609128

The point of the comment was that AT THE TIME there were no arguments for or against the article, but the article was still tagged as astroturf. If people had actually read the article and thought it to be a non-review, they'd surely point that out. Instead they just tag it with their preconception, i.e. positive Win7 review is astroturfing, Macs have Apple tax, DRM is defective by design, etc.

And TFA is not void of negative points:
- "Do note that some users have claimed to have limited success running the Windows 7 beta with less than 1GB of RAM, but that's not recommended."
- "One annoying change is that Bluetooth driver support no longer comes baked into the operating system. If you need a Bluetooth driver, you'll either need the installation disc on hand or you'll have to go and download it."
- "The search field, however, is available by default only in the Start menu and in Windows Explorer and cannot be easily added to the taskbar."
- "The hardware sometimes misread some of the multitouch gestures, occasionally confusing rotating an image, for example, with zooming in or out of the image."
- "[XP mode] is not easy to set up once you've downloaded the XP Mode installer. You'll need to double-check that you have the right hardware, and can get the right software. Hardware Virtualization Technology, also known as AMD-V, Vanderpool or VT-d, must be supported for it to work. Motherboards older than two years probably won't work, and even if you do have a newer one you might have to go into your BIOS and activate Hardware Virtualization."
- "Microsoft has tweaked the [UAC] so that it's less intrusive, but it's not clear whether that means you're actually more or less secure than you were in Vista."
- "Windows 7 feels faster than Windows XP and Vista, but it turns out that's not always the case -- sometimes, it's the slowest of the three operating systems."
- "It was slower than XP and Vista, however, for both booting up cold by a little more than 1 second, and slower than either of its predecessors in its Microsoft Office performance."

Hmph.. No comments that even remotely imply having RTFA'd, but sure enough there's an "astroturfing"-tag. Classy..

...so Mac is the only potentially exploitable environment? It doesn't actually say that, but recommending mitigation through coding around the problem sure sounds like it.

This tired argument of comparing original XP release to current Linux distros really needs to stop. It's apples to oranges and the only thing it accomplishes is a loss of credibility for Linux as a solution ("can't it handle a fair comparison?"). Especially the WPA comment from grandparent is ironic as the out-of-the-box WLAN experience (i.e. just works vs. ndiswrapper hacking) is just now getting together (and comparable to ~XP SP1)