Pretending (against all evidence) that climate change is mostly due to "larger natural forces" that we're helpless against, is not going to make those changes go away. We can already see them beginning, it's very clear they will get worse, and we will have to deal with them one way or another.

Only by accepting responsibility, then tackling the effects we are ourselves causing, can we minimise the upcoming costs. Thankfully, independent studies have repeatedly shown this IS possible and effective, particularly if we act sooner rather than later, and in fact is significantly cheaper than allowing the worst of the changes to occur then trying to adapt.

Inventing a tsunami as an excuse for doing nothing when the plumber is telling you your bathroom is flooding because your pipes are leaking, is just foolish. When that flooding will spread to apartments below you as well, inaction verges on criminal.

Your software wasn't updates to win 8. How is the MS's fault?

Maybe you should check with the software makers of software you make before upgrading the OS?
"Talking about start up time, my main machine went from 50 seconds to 1 minute 20 seconds to start up."
People keep saying that, but no one can actually prove it and I have used it on 100's of machines and seen an decrease.

I hepl run a server test group with 100 PC. Win 7 and win 8 machines. Performance wise win 8 is clearly better, stability wise we have only seen issues with 7.

" it likes to do things such as take multiple *minutes* before task manager appears on a core i5 machine with 8GB of RAM and 50% CPU utilization or less."
something is wrong with your machine. OR I build machines that are magic and just work faster then yours with the same basic specs.

" Linux is not an option for people who need to use real software."
yeah, all those server running linux aren't running real software.

You are clearly a whiner and hater and probably just making stuff up to make your self feel important.

Just interface wise, everything under the hood is better.
I know someone that was t the meeting to decide whether or not to only allow metro. There were over 100 people in it. It was, apparently, a prime example of how a room full of smart people can talk themselves into a bad decision.

That said, I have found metro to be far easier and faster to use then the win 7 interface. A lot faster.
The people that seem to have the hardest time our people that can't break there think out of the antiquated directory/file way of thinking.
Obviously small data size, and an anecdote. So take it for what it's worth(nothing:)

What mouse?

Video games are trivial to get published.

Then why can I easily load windows on a Mac running OSX?

There are millions of OS. To engineer and test them properly probably wouldn't move the price much at all

Also, designing to it matures instead of ages save money over the long run.