Well, it's not so straightforward with 7 (2008 and Vista too). Yes, desktop performance & experience is great, but the abomination that WinSxS folder is fucks it up rather ruthlessly for VM, laptop and SSD usage. As it is, there is no way to strip it down to bare minimum and run lightweight.

I have VMs running XP on 2 gigs of disk and 256mb of RAM. Let me see you do that with any of the above mentioned. And don't tell me disk is cheap, because those VMs number in tens for me, and probably hundreds for other people.

Now how about my laptop with Windows partition of 25 gigs consisting of 17 gigs of Windows and tiny program files of 1.7 gigs? I'm fucking scared to run Windows update on it.

The fact that you (& many others) consider this not unique (i.e. normal) is even worse than the request itself.

That is a matter of personal preference. Just because a dude believes in a sadistic bearded dude doesn't make his wish to live stronger than mine; I might happen to be extremely nothingnessfobic.

Yeah, because a nonbeliever (such as myself) has only *nothing* to be afraid of.

IBM is coasting?
You have no clue what you are talking about.

I am not even going to mention basic research, but IBM dropped Apple (they are innovating, right?) because Toys & Accessories Corp didn't generate enough volume on PPC CPUs. That's just one indication how coasting and declining IBM is.

Trillion calculations? WTF? How many megapixels is that?

Pi having infinite number of digits is not the kind of infinity we can not grasp. Draw a circle; ratio of circumference to diameter is pi. You can stare at it and contemplate all day long, having it in front of your eyes in its entirety.

Infinity that we can not grasp is, for example, infinitely long truly random sequence.

Training office drones is one (costly but doable) part of the transition. The other (AD, Exchange, Office, Sharepoint, 3rd party stuff available only for Windows...) is not so simple, and often impossible.

Exchange integration is cool but I think they love it for Echelon integration.

Care to support this with a citation? The only news I read about nuclear is how to get rid of waste and at the same time stop teRRists from getting it.

Another in a line of moronically named products.
Brings the audio memories of a carelessly dropped shit in a highly acoustic toilet.

There are many great Anglosaxon contributions, I never tried to dispute that.
But to list "if it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking - gasp - German" as an achievement worth of praise is laughable.

Of all the things you found the language to be the most significant Anglosaxon contribution to the world?

English or German or whatever, same shit. What else do you have?

"Intellectual property crime", "IP offence"... George Orwell should rise from the grave and sue for "IP theft".