Microsoft makes a "cooperation" deal with companies to work together on their technology, steals the sourcecode/technology and then ends the contract.

This was the case with IBM's OS/2, Corel Word, Oracle's Database and Stac Electronics' "Stacker" where Bill Gates himself famously lied in a sworn testimony about the theft.

These are just from the top of my head, I am sure people can come up with other examples.

Are you suggesting uncle Sam has some kind of a Psychological Operations unit that tells lies to play with our believes?

This service attempts to make a connection to a website of your choice so you can see if it is just your ISP that can't access it.

" ... and a towel yes", he said.. " ... not that it matters much now" he continued with his mouth full of salted peanuts and frantically searching the sky for something.

You have a "profile", and you "post status updates", which your "friends" can "comment on" or "like".

No matter hot you look at it, if you remove the nice animations and colors you have the same system. The differences are not enough for people for switch.

Google needs to do something new and daring, and G+ isn't it.

I predict that there will be a Facebook-killer, but it will have to go where Google is afraid to go, it will be mostly a placeholder for content that you post where you want on the internet.

The media companies simply see it as a source of power and a new revenue stream, on top of everything else.

You would be amazed what can be done with computer forensics today. Or more likely, you would be scared.

With the same logic we can say that "shit" it not a polluant, and therefore we can dump it directly into lakes and rivers.

Users want "security features" that protect them from evil, not "security features" that protect evil from them.

Microsoft is scared that the shiny hardware that is required to run Windows will be bought and used to run (faster) with another OS. This has very little to do with protecting Users against anything but a lot to do with limiting user's options.

"[Microsoft] is the fox that takes you across the river and then eats you."

- Pete Peterson, former WordPerfect executive