Many corporations insist on IE only. Why? Becuase so many 3rd party applications use the IE engine, that you have to keep it patched and maintained anyway. Allowing additional browsers, that create little-to-no value for the company, is just and added expense and bad practice. (remember, software is supposed to fullfil a NEED, not a preference) The "IE is vulnerable" arguement holds no water, because if the IT Security team is doing their job, such exploits can usually be blocked through various security tools as soon as such and exploit is known.

Oh, puh-lease. Anybody using the RC gets a free ride in that they get to test the OS and test their software with the OS for free. If you don't want to help test a RELEASE CANDIDATE, then don't use it. Nobody's twisting your arm. Ubuntu is buggier than any modern version of Windows... why aren't you complaining about "testing" Ubuntu for free?

I suspect that Microsoft only cares about taking a hunk of the people who have interest in the "Google Docs" type products. If they even take 20-30% of that market, they will have ruined the momentum that Google has.

My guess is....they spent a lot of marketing dollars and found that people generally like the number 7.

Have you analyzed the meta tags, picture alts and context of the site itself? If results were as easy as counting words, everyone would have a search engine.

If you search for the same string on google, the result for "Why are Mac's so expensive" comes up on the very first page. Seems like just different algorithms to me.

I love articles like this! This same "study" has been shown on many other websites. Most of them fess up that the study was sent to 20,000 "IT Admins". Only about 1000 responded. So they have a 5% response to the poll. Second thing I love is that they dont define who an "IT Admin" really is. I know a LOT of "admins" who really have no clue what the direction of their IT department is on a 6-12 month view.

Its not that uncommon. They will break up the commercial into several small sets that you will see over and over again.

So you might see one 30sec spot that just has the part at the dinner table, etc.

They do this alot with superbowl commercials. During the Superbowl you might see a 1.5 minute commercial, and then for months after you only see parts of it.