Who is Rutger, and why does he own a student? (samzenpus: back to school!)

Soulskill: at the very least, when you're writing for a large readership, you should set a good example and take the time to proof your writing. Otherwise your errors are magnified. I'm begging you.

Sorry Soulskill, but you need to have someone proof your captions, as they are consistently of poor quality. This one got the subject's name wrong, and appears to imply that the number 73 was an engineer.

I've worked with Windows 7 in various contexts, and I've yet to see any compelling reason to switch. Once Microsoft stops patching XP, I'll switch. By then Windows 8 will have been out for a while and hopefully some of the inevitable early bugs killed. Windows 7 does have some cool new features, but they don't come close to offsetting the network, interoperability, compatibility and user interface issues that send me back to XP consistently. When I'm finally forced to switch away from XP, if Windows 8 sucks, I'll be switching more systems to Linux. Dear Microsoft: if you really want us to switch: a) lower the damn price; and/or b) relax your rules about running multiple copies.

That's my prediction, anyway. Why is it always the people at the top who think a company would be better off without email? It has a lot of advantages over the alternatives, as this idiot CEO will soon discover. Basing company policy on what children think is cool is a very bad idea, unless you are making toys.

Worse, do the Slashdot editors ever read what they're about to post? What is this gibberish? "has found new findings odd features"

Which, as far as I can tell, seems to be that if something is brief enough, we can pretend that it no longer occurs at all. That's what she said...

First problem: if I'm running Vista or 7, why would I care abut the impending loss of support for XP? It would make more sense if it only ran under Windows XP. Second problem: assuming that the lack of support from Microsoft will somehow 'kill' XP is ludicrous. People will keep using XP until they have no choice but to switch, and while losing support will certainly be a factor (because new security holes will no longer be patched), it will be only one of many. Until Microsoft develops a useful alternative (which Vista sure as hell isn't) that's reasonably priced (which 7 sure as hell isn't), or someone creates a new, Windows-compatible O/S that's actually good and reasonably priced, XP will remain. If Microsoft really wants people to switch to their latest offerings, they should lower their damned prices. Low enough, and everyone would switch. The money Microsoft saves in support and the increase in sales volume would easily offset the loss of their greed-motivated margins.

Dear Mr. Capps: You hold in your hands the ability to compete with the dollar games. In fact, this problem is very easy to fix. What magic can this be? The same thing that businesses have been doing forever, when competitors are undercutting them: LOWER YOUR DAMNED PRICES.