If you have the time, making a large company do the right thing is excellent entertainment, especially these days.

Why are we still writing books using text (for the most part)? Doing it with pictures or other methods is frequently not clear enough even for fiction. Text is concise, or at least more-so than other methods.

Once again, I'm not talking about search results here. I'm talking about contracts that forbid you from using competing services.

Isn't Unity built on Gnome3? You may mean Gnome Shell, which I find far more usable than Unity, but just as unstable. I've since moved on to KDE and can't see myself leaving unless I have an old machine where I'll use Xfce or OpenBox or something.

I'm not talking about that stuff, as I agree with you. I don't like people trying to lock people out of using competing services. This stuff:

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That's just wrong and should be stopped.

Damn nice to see that last part about competing ad platforms. That sort of clause is the sort of thing I would expect Apple to do. It's pretty blatently ant-competitive.

You spelled "Unity" wrong.

Pebble users would generally disagree with you. What they do, they do very well.

I know what copyright is for, but you're not allowed to patent algorithms. This more than most software patents is an algorithm with how to create a result from set of common existing sensor inputs. It should not be patentable based on that alone.

Your Move Patent Office. Are they trying to patent an idea again? More precisely, an overly broad, idea that would be fairly trivial to implement using existing hardware. Given that, do they have even a working implementation? These are real questions, I haven't read TFA. These are the kind of patents that need to stop though. Copyright the implementation of your algorithm and move on.

I would guess that this could be snuck into some other appliction, possibly even through the Apple store if someone is very clever. It's just a proof of concept so far and Appple does not allow side-loading, while Android does, as do jailbroken devices.

or hipsters ... because ... ironic.

Traitor to the NSA, hero to the USA, its citizens, and those of many other countries?

For cost savings and flexibility, getting rid of office for a more open alternative is the first step towards being able to use non-Microsoft platforms for desktops as well. Once you're not tied to them you can start looking at Linux, OSX, Android, etc. The lock-in is gone. If Microsoft is paying attention, this should scare the crap out of them.

The ribbon also changes state depending on what you're doing. If you don't know what you're doing, this would be helpful if icons, etc were recognizable, but many are not. Menus, etc, ate stateless and are always in the same place. Shortcut keys are easy to memorize. With the ribbon I found myself looking for icons and actions that were there a few minutes ago, still apply, but are now somewhere else.