Facebook?

Until they make a version that runs natively on Linux, you still have to buy (or acquire) a version of Windows. So there is some cost / hassle there for some of us, and the biggest reason I can't consider them as a development platform.

They probably do want to unify all their platforms. Then they can leverage their de facto monopolies to wedge into the tablet and Mobile markets where they have failed miserably. The possum in the wood pile is how many people will revolt from the new UI. Just because MS shills and bloggers like it does not mean the buying public will. It has had absolutely zero appeal on phones.

Don't forget the web variant, OWA. "Shit" is too kind of a word.

They don't have much else to talk about. Their sales suck. They are years behind the curve on most features that people want. Nobody cares (except MS employees, shills and bloggers), and the new UI is not doing a friggin thing for them. If that new UI has the same effect when it comes to the desktop, they will have even bigger problems. Its pretty tough for them to try to be in that market and get your ass kicked day in and day out. To have any hope of being a respected player, all they can do is talk. As pitiful as it sounds, it still seems to generate some press.

Oh please. I just read a survey that 2% of Europeans are even considering Nokia / MS. It is and was DOA.

Next years winphone looks a lot like last years Android phone. This is indeed great progress, but too little too late to matter.

Abort, retry, fail

Only someone who lives in a cave would not know about this.

Windows is also Operating System for Dummies, Desktop for Dummies and Internet for Dummies all in one convenient package. Malware authors know they have a much better chance of such people not updating their software and doing other dummy kinds of things. Its a natural fit.

Partially correct. There is private messaging.

"Law" implies some kind of due process. This is more how authoritarian regimes work, by decree.

Yea, I was thinking it was the lunatics running the asylum, but it might be lawyers, indeed. What a sorry state of affairs that this kind of BS is not stopped at the door. "Get the fuck out and don't try that crap again".

Don't forget about mobile, tablets and the like. Sucking hind titty there.

We, the people (ha!), have a moral obligation to not only ignore laws that are clearly designed to work against, but to subvert them through civil disobedience and any other means to render them impossible to enforce. Like prohibition ... eat, DRINK, and be merry.