So Microsoft has the responsibility to continue to support (a process which costs them a lot of $$$) XP forever simply because some customers paid for it 10 years ago and refuse to upgrade?

If you know of a car sold with 10 years included free maintenance, I'd certainly like to hear about it.

I think the real problem is money. Despite the critical praise of Half Life, it doesn't sell nearly as well as the other stuff Valve has gotten their hands into.

Maybe we can look forward to a new continent in the Pacific where our current floating garbage is.

So publishing classified government documents is somehow not stealing? Somewhere along the line, someone has to have stolen the documents, by definition, as they were classified.

The Times can't have it both ways. The philosophy behind publishing classified documents is that no information should be restricted to only certain people. They then can't turn around and try to enact draconian restrictions to their own information.

The reality is that they only believe in freedom of information when it suits their financial and political motivations.

After their fervent Wikileaks support, and their history of publishing classified documents, now they're on the other side of the coin with people publishing information that they want to have control over.

Seems like poetic justice to me.

The problem with your argument is that people DO buy new refrigerators. Just because an industry has reached a point where further innovation is not possible doesn't mean people stop consuming. Throughout XP's entire lifespan Microsoft sold, and continues to sell, copies of the OS. Their OS division has never even been close to losing money. Your contention that Vista and 7 are just money-grabs seems to run counter to all the people that use and love the features of the new OSes.

The reason that Microsoft, or any other tech company has to continue to innovate is because the competition is continuing to innovate. If they ALL reach a point where that's not possible; people will still be more than happy to continue purchasing products when older ones break, wear out, or they get tired of it.

I love the comments people make about the "bad acting" in the prequels. Because Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and even Harrison Ford are so well known for their great acting. For Hamill and Fisher, their acting in Star Wars was so bad that it was the beginning and end of their main-stream careers. How easily people forget the half a second of sadness Princess Leia shows when her entire planet is destroyed and the equal half second of sadness Luke experiences when the only parents he's ever known are brutally murdered.

You know the reason so many people think the original 3 Star Wars movies are so much better? Because they saw them when they were kids, and nothing could ever live up the childhood memories.

Now we can look forward to the definitive source on scientific accuracy to test if they're really possible...

Mythbusters.

Now, instead of just moving a piece of plastic around and clicking one or two buttons, we can use this much more simple solution.

You just have to remember what a one finger command does, what a two fingers command does, what a three fingers does, what a four finger command does, and what a five finger command does and you're on your way to input SIMPLICITY.

Oh, and make sure you don't touch the pad with an extra finger or you'll end up resizing your desktop instead of scrolling through windows.

I found the most interesting part of the video to be the SIMPLE new way of organizing windows. Now, instead of all those cluttered windows all over the screen, you can have the simple and easy to use solution of having them in a line with most of them not visible off of the screen!

And you can bring up a view that will show you the names of currently running programs! That seems so innovative, but I'm sure I've seen something a little bit similar to it before. Oh, that's right, I've been looking at something that does that everyday I've used a computer since Windows 95.