I tried Edge on my Windows tablet and wasn't impressed. The controls were smaller and harder to manipulate. My IE shortcuts were not imported to Edge, so I would have had to start all over.

I installed Windows 10 on my tablet, tried Edge, then uninstalled Windows 10 from my tablet.

The changes in Windows 10 make it more of a desktop OS, but make it much harder, imo, to start the programs you want on a tablet. The large buttons on the Metro 'Start' menu are gone. Apps open in floating windows. Essentially, everything became tiny and hard to manipulate with the touch screen.

It wasn't enough to keep Windows 10. Luckily there is an 'uninstall' option and my tablet is reverted back to 8.1 now. You have 30 days after upgrading to revert. The revert was quick, it only took about 20 minutes.

Aside from being meaninglessly recursive, it's also a definition I expect the FAA to ignore.

I would hope so, too, but Amazon is a large and powerful business now. It isn't the offbeat bunch of nerds selling books via the web and email that it was in 1998. The biz people have climbed aboard and there's government for them to spend on.

Aaaaand, I have now installed and uninstalled Windows 10 on my Asus Transformer Book.

My first observation is that they've3 nerfed all the advantages of Windows 8.1 on a tablet out of Windows 10. You need to poke at really small spots on the screen to bring up the Start Menu. The big friendly start buttons from Windows 8 are gone. It's probably an improvement on Windows 8 for desktop machines. It's rather bad on a medium sized tablet. It would be really really bad on my Dell Venue 8 Pro (8" x86 Windows tablet).

The uninstall was really fast, it took about 20 minutes to rip Windows 10 off the machine and bring it back to 8.1. According to the Uninstall Screen I accessed, it's only possible to revert to the old version of Windows for 30 days after you've upgraded.

I'm glad I uninstalled it and went back.

A better question would be, why do Chromebooks even have keyboards? Can't you stab at the ads on the Google page with your finger or the huge keyboard-sized touchpad?

I think you meant to say: "A lot of people who obfuscate standards-based marked up text with shitty scripts, ridgid layout and little widgets and dingbats call themselves web designers nowadays."

When I first started programming, it was on Teletype ASR-33 terminals, where there WAS no lower case at all.

The TRS-80 Model 1 had no lower case, either, unless you bought a hardware upgrade. I think it was a special ROM you added.

On my KVM, Scroll Lock switches to the next machine.

That's a really good use for it. It also has use in Excel.

Ka-Wank, Ka-Wank, Ka-Waa-Waa-Woo.

I was wondering why it was taking so long for a one-button Mac user to chime in.

Furthermore, this whole study seems to have used Mac Users who run Chrome as the whole basis for usage. That's a pretty rarefied sample.

I'd say get rid of those flipper keys on either side of the spacebar that have some weird symbol on them. Make them Windows keys, maybe, for people who've upgraded their Macbook.

I was thinking he was the poor sucker with a first generation iMac where the USB wasn't even 2.0. (and where the firmware is set so that it CANNOT boot from an external USB DVD-ROM drive)

Put some Firewire in that Altivec Unit and let's Retina our way to joyland!

This is Slashdot. Shouldn't the question be "What Percentage of your machines will you be installing Windows 10 on?"

I have machines that already have 8.1 that I will be updating, and machines with Windows 7 and XP that I won't be updating. In particular, my Asus Transformer (Windows Tablet) will be getting Windows 10 first because it's already an 80% touch based machine. (it has a keyboard dock with a touchpad, but is seldom used that way)

I'm holding onto Windows 7 on my desktop, too. But I am dowloading an ISO to upgrade to Windows 10 on my tablet. Once you've crossed over the threshold of Windows 8, you may as well jump right into the room. I suspect it'll be better than 8.1 on a tablet.

The assets of the company that goes out of business owing money are seized and if possible monetized to realize value for their creditors. This includes IP like corporate records which can include email.

We were all, at one point anyways, nerds on Slashdot. Nerds first, and anything else besides.

That's changed somewhat as Slashdot became perceived as being an 'IT' site. But it still holds in the best threads and topics.

"SoylentNews intends to be a source of journalism"

"Journalists" are the people who flunked out of Calculus, and couldn't get admitted to the English Department. So they transferred to J-School, where hanging out at the Lit Tables in the student union (No Nukes!, etc.) counts as homework.

I'm just an old redneck from the days of 300 baud, but I like the character set on a discussion forum to be clipped at 7 bits.

Dorks started fooling around with that eighth bit almost as soon as it was allowed.