BES offers a shitload of benefits if you want to use them. Blocking things like the camera or SMS, limiting WiFi connectivity, security configuration, password requirements, etc, on company owned and paid for phones is a requirement for many large enterprises. Additionally, ActiveSync isn't as feature complete with syncing in most cases (Android doesn't do tasks or notes for example), while BES provides complete bi-directional sync between BlackBerrys and Exchange. Remote software management, an always on administrator controlled VPN connection is another benefit.

We had issues with our Exchange server's gateway and it wasn't able to get to the internet, however the tunnel to our location that had BES was up and it had internet connectivity, so our BBs were receiving email communicating what was going on and who was doing what. Sure we could've done that with personal email or with BBM/GTalk, but this way we didn't need to.

BES is a pain in the ass when you don't need any of the above and all you're doing is syncing email, calendar and contacts. But those are all critical features in many places.

MS requires a CAL for each user accessing servers running Windows. Or they offer a site/enterprise license that removes the burden for individual CALs. They didn't/don't require a CAL for a box that didn't access the Windows Server.

I can't wait for the first law suit that requires access to all company email for the last three years.

1Q != 3 years.

Just because you can find a recent quarter where they did poorly doesn't mean you can understand the conversation you're posting in.

Yeah, bleeding money. Like 2.5B profit in 2010, 3.4B in 2011, , 1.1B in 2012.

I dunno about you, but I wish I were bleeding money like that. 7 Billion dollars is a lot of blood.

You are 100% incorrect. Android natively uses either IMAP, POP3 or EAS.

Didn't think of your second point. Fair enough.

But if your job is dependent on you having a certification, would you really leave it to the last 3 days of your certs validity to do the test? What if you fail, most certs have a minimum retry period of a week or so, don't they? Isn't this just a semi-inconvenient thing rather than the economy crushing madness the summary makes it out to be?

I don't think any of us are thinking that it's popular; we all realize that it wasn't popular and that's why it was cancelled.

We just realize that's it's so good it shouldn't have been cancelled.

Yeah, odd that being right keeps people feeling confident in their predictions...

I'm sorry, but you;'re incorrect about the wage gap being debunked "time and time again." While the wage gap is not 70cents on the dollar anymore, there is a significant difference in women's pay. In Ontario, according to Stats Canada, the gap is currently 25%. It's also the same in the US according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is worse than it has been since 2005.

I'm very sorry you feel discriminated against, but this supposed attack on male rights is horse shit made up by bitter people who cannot tolerate the fact that 1000 years of cultural manipulation by us white men is being undone.

The numbers of male nurses has increased incredibly in the last 30 years, and male nurses are currently making significantly more money than women, and are in higher positions.

There are massive campaigns to get more men involved teaching, and early child development. There's also employment campaigns to get more women involved in trades, including the more dangerous ones, those campaigns are primarily ones which you complain about in your first paragraph (scholarships directed at women).

Not to be that guy, but I wanted to know more about the acid thing, couldn't find it. It's actually Mercedes, BMW refused to put it in their cars. It also creates an incredibly toxic gas along side the acid.

More here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2307265/EPA-nominee-tough-questions-approved-new-car-air-conditioner-refrigerant-caused-ENGINE-FIRES-Mercedes-Benz-tests.html

When it's running there's a bit of chrome around the icon, but the size does not change. Multiple windows, the chrome changes to two or three panels. Active window is highlighted more than non-active windows.

The grouping I guess is annoying to some people, but I've never understood why; jumplists keep everything nicely organized and make it so that you can quickly identify the window contents. I guess the hovering is an additional step vs having a title, but when I've got 5 explorer windows, two Word documents, a few Excel sheets, a handful of MMCs and a browser open, the titles are useless to me anyhow.

With grouping off, you're right, it totally looks broken. the size changes, and it's all garbage. I feel like this is a user preference thing more than an actual UI/UX usability issue.

The Alt+Tab animations, do you mean the Win+Tab animations? The heinous, useless, distracting carousel thing? Alt+Tab is just the normal Windows Alt+Tab but with an Aero background instead of the non-transparent one.

The Windows 8 Start screen behaves the same way that the Start menu did; search is the key here, not clicking the icon.

And Windows 8 works, for the most part, like Windows 7, Vista and XP.

Getting out of Metro requires one click, and unless you're installing Metro apps, you never have to drop back into it.

Then stop upgrading your computer. Every single iteration of a program requires you to adapt to the new way things are done in it. OS' included.

You're using it wrong if you're still going into the start menu/screen to find and click on an app. Go back to XP if that's what you want to do. Since Vista, the only sensible way to launch apps from the start menu has been by typing the bare minimum number of letters to get the app to show at the top of the list and then hitting enter.

Aside from clicking out of the start menu at logon, and the annoying alt+tab business, I've encountered no UI issues that I can think of. Thankfully DisplayFusion automatically drops me to desktop at logon, and with alt+tab I'm usually switching between two or three active windows so the shit arrangement doesn't matter to me, much.

What things actually get in your way? What things have been removed in the UI?