Educational institutions don't pay anywhere near RRP for Apple products.

Android tablets are ALREADY here. Haven't heard of them? They suck. The ones that are coming, could be good, but they're not here now.

You obviously haven't actually used 7 (though your criticisms are somewhat more valid for Vista) if you think there's too many UAC prompts. :P

And therefore the smallest error results in zero marks.

So when /. is debating moves against piracy it'll yell "OH NO IT'S NOT THEFT IT'S COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT" but if it's an MS article...

It was user situation dependent. Firefox was reading all of a user's temp files to seed its RNG or something along those lines so if you had a lot of large temp files your startup time would be quite large.

Regardless, it still takes 5x Chrome's startup time with the fix so... peh.

Since you obviously don't know what a patent troll is: Patent trolls are entities/people who control hoards of patents but don't actually do anything.

That has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

Love how you try to equate to unequal situations there with a nice little ending statement. Doesn't work.

I thought the lack of adblock and noscript would be an issue when switching - but it really isn't. The much more streamlined, speedier experience just makes up for it (well, it doesn't "make up" for it since I realised the ads just don't bother me - adblock, solving a problem I didn't know I had!).

Why is the native version for Linux? Firefox has its roots on Windows.

Or it's just baseless conjecture.

Almost eight years ago.

Yeah, because people never imply things in their speech.

There is an option that you have to check to allow updates to things other than Windows.