I had a whole essay ready to go but I will distill it:

1 - Microsoft products are an order of magnitude better than is the crap that is google docs or libre office

2 - Its not the 90's anymore. Bill Gates has done an extraordinary amount of good with his money

(ps, yes I can't wait untill Ballmer is retired either)

As a guy not in IT:

Becuase us users resent your petty fiefdoms. Its 2011 now, the technology exists.

Doctors haven't cured cancer

Physicists haven't made a fusion reactor

Brain Surgeons can' t operate on Alzheimers

Rocket Scientists can't fly us to Mars and Back

News at 11

yes and what about phones that JUST MAKE CALLS!!

Can you honestly see this being used in an office environment?

Or for that matter, on a plane?

Yes, if you use gmail because search actually works.

No, if you use Outlook because their search is a dog.

Agree - if they had physical stores take up would have been a lot higher (also if they had provided a plan for it - Joe Sixpack is not used to paying $XXX upfront). The main reason for physical stores is that these days phones are quite a personal item. (does it fit in my pocket/hand/handbag/purse/?. Does it look "cool"). I think both factors combined meant that Nexus 1 was an underperformer, despite it being the leading phone of its time.

Google agrees with you, though the millions of people who didn't buy the Nexus-1 (the leading phone of its time) would probably disagree.

google: "me too - except we do it BETTER"

see http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=btaG034fJgg

oh and hoverboards would be cool too.

I hate the Facebook, try as I might I've had zero success in migrating my family and friends to superior services like twitter & google+. (I'm gen x btw). Reason being is my non computer literate family and friends can't cope with the cognitive dissonance of learning yet another www site on the internet. If they do manage to do so, then there's no-one there, except boring self-promoters (hello twitter!). So Facebook will be around for a long time to come and people like me who know there's better alternatives will still be forced to use it.

Getting back on topic, postponing the IPO makes a tonne of sense. The markets are in turmoil with Greece and Italy about to default. For an IPO of the size of Facebook, any sensible banker would wait and see.

Plus the USA has its election next year, so inevitably the pork barrel will come out. No doubt that will add a couple of digits to the user/revenue/ebitda mulitple that Facebook will be valued at.

sigh, such a typical slashdot response

If the question was "what's the best gaming PC for $1,000?", the answer would be:

1) if you're not running Crysis on your overclocked Amgia, (on some weird-ass linux distro of course) then you have no right to be asking, and obviously don't know what you're talking about.

2) No way in hell your mom is gonna give you the $1,000.

hmmm with the easily obtainable f/oss your kindle can read anything.

WHOOOSH!!

oops 1.8 ZB = 144 x estimated information content of all human knowledge.