They already had their own Eurovision Song Contest entry. Unfortunately they had to remove the word "Facebook". If you look for it, you'll find 2 versions, one with the name being replaced.

Actually given the current status it would be stupid for Facebook to do anything, people already do stuff for them for free. Just wait till someone else brings out a Facebook-Phone.

There are stores selling refurbished business laptops. Those are typically older and have broken batteries, but fully sufficient for the average consumer who doesn't need a battery anyhow.

Essentially there are lots of people who both believe that Windows is the correct operating system and have no idea what they are doing. That's why rating firms run on Excel spreadsheets. Huge Excel spreadsheets nobody can maintain.

Plus there is another thing which is more important than security, it's the social structure. You usually cannot questions others decisions, even if you have actual proof that you are right. That's not acceptable in most companies.

The combination is also common. You have some idiots starting with VBA and having half maintained Excel spreadsheets which only grow, but never shrink. Converting them would be near impossible, so even if you are able to change the consensus, there's nothing people can do about.

Working in a company which is like that, I can tell that this is extremely frustrating.

Are you the "grab as much money from investors and run" kind of startup? Then it doesn't matter.

If you are the "we want to build a sustainable business" kind of startup, then please as fast as you can, get rid of the cancer of "Office" software. Those packages probably are the biggest productivity robber you can have.
Then make sure you have all your data in open, preferably text-based formats.

Believe me, in a few years you'll be thanking me when either smarter start-ups with automation compete with you, or when your current brand of office software isn't maintained any more.

As long as there still is DRM, the printed book certainly won't disappear, except in the homes of a bunch of idiots who will be left without those DRMed files after a few years.
Postal mail still is essential to businesses as most of their workflows are paper based. In your usual company you have some computer system printing out some information on a sheet of paper. With e-mail you would have to scan that printout in before you can attach it, a process even harder than generating PDF files directly which is, if technically possible at all, quite difficult.

Diskettes may have died out in the world of web-design, but when it comes to manufacturing, many companies are stuck with some 1990s $100k piece of machinery getting its data via diskette only. In fact, every PC case I bought over the last few years still had a slot for a 5 1/4 inch diskette drive. They often even lack one of the front panels so you have to install it. Otherwise you'd have an empty space in your front.

Those things may all have long been gone in certain areas, but in the real world it's nothing like that.

At the place I work, we have some word processing systems named after a 1970s band. It looks fairly modern, it even has decent resolution colour screens and a semi-functional shell. It is programmed via macros in the word processing package. And unlike the Canon Cat, this one is really badly designed.

As if anybody still cares for Office. If you see Office in a company, that's usually a sign of bad management.

From Windows for Workgroups to Windows 2000, every version was able to join a domain. Only in Windows XP they deliberately took it out for some subversions.

Then ARM is the first non-x86 platform Windows is ported too without an Emulator. That makes those devices virtually useless in a serious enterprise environment, because none of your software will work on them. (Alpha had one)

This is deliberate.

Well, uhm, it currently has access to the hardware. If the hardware abstraction would move from the X-Server to the Kernel, it would actually probably be safer.

Nobody is talking about putting an X-Server into the Kernel, and even Plan9 with its filesystem based GUI doesn't. (On Plan9 normal programes can create virtual filesystem structures which can be mounted anywhere. It's the Plan9 way of providing an API)

Giving it a conspiracy look, one might interpret it as an attempt of the unwashed hordes trying to take over Linux. Instead of going the sane unix-like route of moving graphics into virtual filesystems, like it's done on Plan9, they want to essentially replicate X11, but without its good parts. Wayland is not network transparent. It still needs libraries to be linked with your software. What you get is a bit more gimicky graphics, but you loose a lot of important features.

It's perhaps not quite as bad as the proposed move to binary log files, but still it offers next to no advantage for quite a bit of cost.

Replication of functionality between the kernel and X11 could be elimnated easily, buy building an X11 server that accesses the kernel.