Who needs Windows? You might as well use Linux then.

What other proof do you need???

Microsoft's accountants will eventually kill their mobile division just like they kill everything that doesn't generate sufficient cash flow, and that cash flow is considerable.

Microsoft's problems is that they are a victim of their own success.

They never see that they were used by an entire market sector to relieve the hardware OEMs from having to develop any software.

People, end-users, never bought their products. They bought the hardware, but there was no choice as to the software so it wan't a consideration.

They were never liked, they were never sought after, they were never thought about other than as something that came with the hardware.

They have almost no brand loyalty and no market presence (their ubiquity makes them entirely invisible.) Basically, nobody cares.

Unlike Linux, which is sought after by DIY computer geeks and sysadmins looking to squeeze more performance out of their boxen and who buy components from NewEgg or TigerDirect, or Apple products which are sought after by people who care about things other than specs and who make their pilgrimage to the Apple Store experience or buy on-line via iTunes, nobody really wants to put up with the crap Microsoft excretes from its cloaca in Redmond.

The new Microsoft super-phone will come with lighter, shorter and smaller tin cans and two strings for messaging redundancy.

The problem with Microsoft is that its being run by accountants, who might be well intentioned but have the creative soul of MP3 player designers, you know the "deer in the headlight" guys who never got that people just wanted to listen to their music, not play with their devices endlessly just to go from one tune to the next. (I have a cousin who was that kind of "early adopter". He also used to drive his car high as a kite while playing with the MP3 player and flicking the ash off of his roaches. Distracted driving ads were written for and because of people like him.)

Anybody who can seriously come up with an ugly brown Zune or a brain-dead Kin in this day and age should be chased from design meetings with a friggin' bull whip and a flame thrower.

What would you do if you were the head of a corporation, or, more to the point, if you were the chief bean counter?

Do you let the employees pay for their own phones so its of of your books altogether or do you pay to supply phones to your staff, with all of the supply and replacement problems that entails?

If its the employees own phones, it costs you NOTHING.

And I thought Microsoft was smart enough to know that they're not dealing with OEMs with vendor lock anymore... Oh well...

They're just shoving anything that will go down the pipe as some form of fluid to build pressure.

Thinking that there's even some magic recipe for forcing cracks in shale is the height is idiocy.

They oil & gas companies are just shoving in their waste products under high pressure and, low and behold, the shale can't take the pressure.

That happens to release some natural gas some times, if they drilled close enough to some gas pockets.

I'm glad I live on granite.

spooky action at a distance " (at the heart of quantum coherence) had never been further than his salad bowl...

If its earning less than inflation while you're holding it, DUMP it. Its costing you money.

Nobody wants to look at my ugly mug anyway.

I used my cat "Wiki" as my avatar until he died and now I'm using "Ixie" for as long as she lasts.

Seriously, there will be a market for both the Apple iPad with its larger surface (and iOS) and for the Amazon Kindle Fire with its lower price point (and Linux.)

Also, just as seriously, there is no mention of Microsoft or any flavor of Windows. Just sayin'... :-)