Thankyou, I agree fully, almost any progress is good progress when it comes to space, China blowing stuff up and cluttering up LEO accepted http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6289519.stm of course.

Darwinism in action.

I liked being able to take photos on non-Apple hardware. The future will suck when Apple is suing everyone about the use autofocus or worse, the use of flash. We know how bad Apple hates flash.

Yes, they don't want to piss off the OEMs so that they make less MS OSed products if they don't need to, they just want to show them how it could be done better. This is a gentle nudge to places like Acer telling them to stop using recycled plastic bags to make computer cases with. Have you seen the Surface with skateboard wheels on it that the engineering manager stood on at a presentation. It still worked, try doing that with an iPad, they are robust bits of equipment and a warning to OEMs to start building better quality gear.

on a desktop, not a laptop, at least not a decent one, most need a new Mb or to go back to the manufacturer for unlocking with a hardware dongle.

That's why you use Bitlocker to encrypt the drive so that a simple boot program can't mess with the passwords, best bit is that it is transparent to the user. Besides the BIOS should be be locked down to prevent booting from anything but the HD and the HD should be using drivelocker preventing another drive from being substituted.

Surface with MMC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dkTWh-5QEeQ there are a whole set of other videos of an actual Surface in use.

Agreed, that 'one samba-provided registry file you need to import on every Windows Vista/7/8 host ' disables as much security as it can and winds Windows back to NT4/2000 levels of security. Not exactly the best thing to do in any environment.

If you listen carefully you can hear security crying its eyes out in the corner. Just because you can does not mean you should. I know that many Windows products will work reliably for long periods of time but all software has holes. If its connected to the internet then updates are a good idea even if they can break things on occasion.

The sheep will queue at the wolfs doorway for the latest IPoo, sickening.

Totally agree, it did depend on the ROM and apps but there were problems. I loved the expandability and flexibility of the platform, had a WM2003, WM5, WM6.1-5 device. They had a use by date where you'd get 'issues', not ringing, refusing to answer a call, hanging up before making a connection, not ringing, not giving low power warnings etc. Didn't have many big crashes per say but problems. Feature wise they all eclipsed anything my friends had at the time and three years or so after. They needed tlc but were like having a Swiss army knife.

Have gone to a WP7 phone after holding out for quite a while and for usability it is great, quicker and more stable than their predecessors but disappointing feature wise. They keep making it better but now have abandoned it and everyone on it, again. Time will tell if they make 7.8 a really decent peace offering or not, if not their potential seed of users will turn into a poisonous blight that will make sure 8 has an even harder time. Who is to say that MS will stick with this platform any longer, if they just stuck with one long enough to do it well they could kill at it.

And Apple gets no scrutiny, the US should go to a little third world country to find out how to be less corrupt, justice, what a joke.

Good point but they did that whole big mess around with the 'Temporal Cold War' which reset a stack of stuff from before the beginning of S4 however those events still seemed referenced so the integrity of that timeline was a bit suspect too in relation to the primary timeline used in the original. There was a flashfoward in the last ep with Richer and Troy from TNG so that at least links it to a similar timeline.

Powersaving

It depends on how far down you want to go, most hoe routers are based on Linux and many websites. In a sense everyone 'uses' Linux but in another almost no-one does. Windows does not really have that recognition problem, it's either there or it's not.