So, what, you're just assuming the lawyer is a moron?

Your point about documentation is valid, but then again a cancelled stamp would have the date on it, too. It's not like news groups are the only thing ever that are datestamped.

The "day of Linux on the desktop" should have come when Windows XP was late. That opportunity was missed.

There was a second chance, just a few years ago when netbooks were on the rise like mad, and Microsoft didn't have an OS that could run on one (instead having to keep pitching XP for netbooks.) That opportunity was missed as well.

FWIW, I just reinstalled Win7 on my laptop. No date showing in the status bar by default, and I can't find any setting to enable showing it.

Then you (or possibly your employer?) changed the default. Because the date shows on a second line below the time in Windows 7, by default.

- No customizability. For example, I can't figure out how to have the clock on the taskbar also list today's date.

Point the First: Customization = bugs. For every checkbox in the OS, you double the time taken to QA. Windows has been reducing customization to ensure they can ship a quality product. (OS X has always followed the same philosophy.) So if that's what you're looking for, Windows isn't for you... but I also think if you were rational about it, you'd prefer a well-tested OS over one that's customizable.

Point the Second: Windows has shown the date on the Start bar by default since Vista. Please update your rhetoric to Windows OSes shipped during this decade, thank you.

I actually wonder if one of the reason Linux users think "Linux is just fine! It's just as good as Windows!" is that they're always comparing to a 10-year-old copy of Windows.

Well: 1) You can do anything you want with Windows, and it's equally "free" in the eyes of the consumer, so what's your point?

And of course 2) no you can't. Can I play Skyrim in Linux? (Yes, yes, WINE, whatever, the answer is: no, no I can't.)

When's the last time you used an Adobe tool? They can't build them for Windows or OS X now without huge flaws, obvious bugs, strange quirky behavior-- why do you think they'd be able to port to Linux?

Adobe software has been going downhill for 5 years at an incredible rate. The only thing saving their Photoshop monopoly at the moment is a lack of effective competition, it's certainly not anything Adobe's doing to keep it.

Because, seriously, I'm not giving those assholes business. But I'd like to donate.

Jesus, it was just a joke. Relax.

Yes and watch my new documentary: "Everything Is A Conspiracy Even Things That Failed On Their Own Merits!"

Find out who THEY are and why THEY don't want you driving electric cars!

Then you have an extremely limited knowledge of games, and I pity you. Chrono Trigger came out in 1995. There was a entire decade of story-based games before it-- including gems like Another World, Prince of Persia (and its sequel), most of the Lucas Arts games...