From TFA: "There are many companies making Android devices and the magic of competition will force them to drive prices down and quality up."

Drive prices down? Yup!

Quality up? Uhm... what? Just like it's done with the current crop of Android phones where there is tons and tons of crap and a few really good ones (Galaxy S2, Nexus, etc)?

I clicked on this thinking the guy might have some insight on why Android tablets were about to make a big jump forward, but all this guy is missing is pom poms and a miniskirt..

In a benchmark Flash may be more efficient/faster, but browser improvements (especially hardware acceleration) will help continue making HTML/CSS/JS more efficient/faster also. But my concern with Flash is not during the time its being used to watch a video, display an ad, or play a game. The problem I have with Flash is that when I'm not watching the video or ad, or using the game, or even (worst of all) Flash navigation, even then it is running and wasting CPU cycles. I notice my browser running 5% - 15% higher CPU constantly when I have a browser open with Flash content. That's why one reason I run FlashBlock in Firefox and why I don't miss Flash on my iPhone and I have no problem with Apple not having Flash installed by default on Lion. As for crashes, perhaps you've been lucky, but Mozilla, Apple, Google, and others have all pointed to Flash as a source of crashes. Firefox has never crashed on me since they isolated Flash in it's own process.

Same here! Flash has never crashed on my phone or used lots of CPU and killed my battery... I use an iPhone.

But.. but... now how will I get the "whole web" experience?!

I love C# as a language, and .NET has been one of my favorite products from MS, it's great to use for development and seems to be what Java should have been. My concern with this announcement though is that I can't get The Lord of the Rings out of my head... Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

Well that's a silly question. No one is complaining about onerous entry requirements to Soviet Canuckistan because it's too cold to want to come here! ;)

(No, it's really not that cold, come in summer, it's really hot. Don't bring your skis in July... again.)

Because MS posted SHA1 hashes of the ISO's so you can make sure the torrent version is exactly what MS released.