The good news is you won't have to wait long. Windows is moving to an annual release cadence.

The bad news for you is the desktop is dead. The writing has been on the wall for years.

Can we please all agree to stop using this lame weasel word. Thanks.

WTF. How did you expect that to work at all.

You must be new here. We have a Microsoft bitch-fest everyday even if they don't make anything newsworthy. It's either a Windows 8 post, or some rumour about DRM on the xbox, or Stallman saying something dumb, or something about UEFI, and if all those fail then we find some random guy that quit a decade ago and writes a butthurt blog post.

Daily Microsoft bitch-fest in 5...4...3...2...1... GO!

Python... our ultra underground language that only the super secret priesthood of unix admins knows about?? You are letting our divine truth out to the unthinking public! You better believe you are going to get shunned at the next invocation.

Looking forward to watching the usual mental gymnastics from you guys trying to make him out to be evil or something. Bonus points for not reading a word he says.

You guys making this argument really need to start picking better examples.

They defined the PC as we know it including a lot of standards that persist to this day. It was immensely successful and allowed for IBM to dominate the personal computing space for years.

Was doomed from the start. IBM is equally to blame for its demise, despite the haterade that people on slashdot are drinking.

I seem to remember that involving more lawsuits than any sort of cooperation. In any case Java is currently a very popular language in the enterprise.

I've done it several times. It's much faster than dragging out a piece of hardware I'm never going to use again to burn a disc I'm never going to use again.

Don't know and don't care if this works for your bizarro OS of choice.

Cosmic rays go straight through the earths atmosphere. So an iphone on earth gets hit with the same amount of cosmic rays as one in space. Off the shelf computer hardware does indeed work just fine in space. You can watch people on the ISS using normal laptops and cameras all the time.

Ouch, pretty well every phone plan here comes with unlimited texting. Good luck with your third world phone plans.

There is a boxed copy, but interestingly there is no DVD in the box. There is a key and a URL to go download the software.

If you know they exist you maybe shouldn't say shit like this:

That Windows license wasn't forced on you. You made that choice with full knowledge of your options. Pretending otherwise is basically lying.

Of course the Linux version of the same hardware is more expensive. Windows PCs come with the bundled crapware that subsidizes the cost of the operating system. Linux PCs don't have the bundled crapware and therefore cost the OEM more money. Not to mention most people who buy the Linux version did so by mistake and end up returning it.

From the same quote:

What... the... fuck...

Not quite. Entity Framework is actively accepting contributions.