I think Microsoft is just sitting back waiting until Windows 8 comes out. Most people will learn about the new Windows and Metro no matter what, then they just have to be shown the phone that works like what they [now] already know (and, for Microsoft's sake, hopefully like).

And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

http://www.aolnews.com/2010/03/09/petas-euthanasia-rates-have-critics-fuming/

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=peta+euthanasia

While I think they should have both, consider this a failing of all other manufacturers not standardizing on a common port to compete with the iPod dock. The fact that I plug one wire into my iPod in the car and get audio, power, and control is a beautiful thing. Maybe there's a chance now with Micro USB becoming standard. The iPod dock and the consistency it provides accessory manufacturers is a huge advantage for Apple.

Also remember that we're coming up on 4 years since the iPhone came out and was ridiculed for not supporting Flash. 4 years of vastly increasing mobile computing power and memory. 4 years for Adobe to get its act together. 4 years to see why HTML5 video and animation is important.

4 years. If this is what we're seeing now, just imagine what Jobs was shown way back when the decision was made.

Ah, the supply side fairy tale.

http://www.factcheck.org/taxes/supply-side_spin.html

Friggin' Unix, that do-nothing OS.

Oh I know, and it may just be familiarity at this point but I still prefer Firebug. I'd rate Firebug a 9, Webkit tools 7 or 8, and IE9 a 4...not good but not completely useless like it used to be. At least there's a lifeline for those IE specific issues. Eh, maybe a 5, the script debugger is greatly improved and the network tools may actually be the best.

I'll pretend you didn't say anything about needing Expressions or Dreamweaver and recommend Firebug for playing with CSS on the fly. I've moved to Chrome for my personal browsing but it'll be a while before I use anything but Firefox for my main development work.

I'm so glad the IE team made the decision not to worry about the ACID test. It's only PR for geeks who'd rather care about a single number than attempt to judge on real world use.

IE9 is a solid browser which will of course fall behind with the slow IE dev cycle. But if they keep the pace from IE7 through IE9, IE10 will blow the others away.