Think.
This isn't going to hurt enterprise desktop development *at all*. Know why? Because people who write enterprise applications don't use the free version that's intended for hobbyists / students.

Legacy support is also not going away. Why do you think there is still a desktop / win32 environment?

But the money is soo sooo sweet.

>humans should be shining like the amazing end result of evolution that they are.

I was with you up until that sentence. Evolution does not have a direction or an end result. Considering how rare our kind of intelligence is, it's not even clear that it has lasting evolutionary value and long after we are gone bacteria will continue doing its thing.

>just because you don't understand something, doesn't mean it's bad.

In this case, now that I understand it, I think it's bad.

So why didn't they just sell Mac compatible hardware and let the user install the OS? Seems like many users would be willing to pay less for hardware if all they had to do was install OSX.

Maybe before 2003 or so. We moved on when they finally changed the gates/borg image.

At first I assume this was about people having to pay for OSX when they buy a powerbook that they are just going to run Win7 on.

And you would be wrong with that argument. Even if you assume MS is responsible for all the jobs lost at netscape and word perfect plus 10 other companies of similar size you would be wrong. Those people went on to get other jobs and life went on. Weigh that against the 10s of thousands of lives that MS money has saved and harm done just doesn't compare.

If you think Outlook's search functionality is a joke, you're doing it wrong. I use outlook as a way to help me remember everything. Their in line query helpers are great.

Wish I knew how to get my beak wet on this. I have a WP7 phone that I simply adore and I'd love to get paid to say nice things about it. Maybe Tech* can hook me up?