Read the rest of the article.They found that pinning is popular.

Good. It should be obvious by now, but that is what I do. I've pinned 23 items to my Start Menu: Assorted Libraries, Calculator, Command Prompt, Firefox, IE, Chrome, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.

If they don't have pinning or something like it ... (O-o)

You what else?!? Somethings don't have a context menu option to "Pin"them. Only LATER did I find I could still drag and drop something and Windows would pin it instead of of moving the link/program/etc. Yay for inconsistency!
/rant

Gah! Pinning to the taskbar! Horrible!

They took away* Quick launch, so I tried using the taskbar as my "go to place" for shortcuts, but pinning it to it sucked.

I therefore switched to pinning things to the Start Menu (even though there is no Right click - > "Sort my pinned items by name" option). Now they want to take it away?!? Not cool.

I've put a few hours of testing in with the Windows 8 Developers preview, and let me tell you, if users don't know how to use shit now, wait till they see tiles. Can you click and drag to swipe? Noooo. You have to use the scroll wheel. Can you ever reach the edge of the tiles by scrolling? Nooooo.


*Hid it/buried it/made it generally inaccessible

Judge went above and beyond in the scope of his/her ruling so far that he/she is blindly favoring the MPAA:

http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html

The article linked to is lifted from Gizmodo, word for word. Check the "From" link on the linked to site, and you'll see.

I switched from "Luna" (I think) to Aero, when I switched from XP to Windows 7.

I love Start Search, Aero Peek, Aero Snap...

On the otherhand, I'm not too happy with how MS combined the Task Bar with the Quick Start area. Grouping application windows on the task bar kind of bothers me. I wish I could group and ungroup application windows quickly, so I didn't have to chose between grouped or ungrouped. Pinning documents to icons in the Quick Start area is an odd metaphor. I think recent documents/files belong in a list somewhere else.

If you would like to continue tethering...here are details on the plan:
-DataPro 4GB for Smartphone Tethering
--$45 per month (this gives you 4GB in total, combining both your smartphone data plan for $25 and the tethering feature, $20)

Users don't always notice the speed gap because websites are sometimes tailored to mobile phones, Blaze said. The difference will become more obvious as users demand richer experiences and move to tablet computers with larger screens, said Guy Podjarny, chief technology officer of Blaze, whose business is helping companies increase website download times.

Maybe their customers are ISPs who charge by usage?

Windows Mobile 6.1 and 6.5 phones handle the Exchange Active Sync (EAS) protocol great. You can buy a mainstream HTC Touch HD2 or Touch Pro 2 and sync all you like on my Exchange server if you work in my organization.

There are two rasons why I use a Touch Pro 2:
1. Full EAS support.
2. Google has chosen to snub MS by making Android (for the moment, at least) support remote wipe and encryption only through Google Apps accounts.