Ugh, seriously? Nothing like forced non-failure of software instead of a failure that could prevent more serious consequences...

The real reason is simple: insufficient numbers of people are interested in making the attempt. RT hardware is nothing special, and similar configurations can be hacked both more easily and more cheaply.

Indeed. Every day I spend with Win 8, I dislike it more. Tried to add a network printer, but it was not auto-detected in the new metro interface. However when I went the old route in the control panel to add a new printer, it was auto-detected immediately.

When such basic functionality is not working in the new interface (which one would assume is actually backed by the same underlying OS components), there's a real problem. This is aside from the unpleasantness of the interface itself, at least when using non-touch or wanting to actually multitask.

The only things going for it so far are the improvements to file transfer and the task manager program.

Do you perform extensive functional tests against third party software libraries before including them in your system? In most situations, no -- if it's established and proven. You trust that it does what it advertises, and only when it doesn't do you dig further.

Same goes for hard drives.

If you can avoid metro, it's pretty usable.

But metro intrudes at annoying times for various routine tasks. Frustrating indeed. Showing how a child can perform cherry-picked tasks doesn't change this.

You may be right. They're still raking in massive profits - investors should be pleased.

On the other hand, eventually it'll go down - we may be seeing the beginning of that now or we may not. The current trend has certainly been continuing long enough to be worrisome - looks like a couple of months now, for the first time since it started its steady rise.

Me, I wouldn't bet on a stock rising forever.

The stock went up, but only enough to make up for morning losses - normal fluctuations, but not reversing the downward trend...

Was it your intention to point out the 7% decline since Monday?

Yeah, too bad they forgot to include one with the Pro.

On the other hand, the Surface Pro has little to offer over an ultrabook - it includes a touchscreen. An ultrabook will have better battery life, and an increasing number are becoming available with touchscreens as well. All within the same price target as the Surface Pro. THis is a product looking for a market.

Oh, and ultrabooks all have keyboards - no extra charge.

I think in this case, people are resistant to the notion that they can be so neatly studied and classified.

Well of COURSE I wrote a bad summary. I said it right there - it was too long, and I didn't read it!

TL;DR - she's writing a book and wants us all to know, and Wired is cooperating. It's a fluff piece. Apparently we should buy it when it comes out.

Also the problem of the people who - doing the correct thing - are getting rear-ended and likely injured. The fact that we know who's at-fault and who should be liable doesn't change this, nor does the fact that it's not funded by the taxpayer.

Please add blackberry playbook to the devices that are supported. It's the same webkit browser everyone else is using (though with better compliance scores in many cases), and it works just fine when I click 'let me in anyway'.