Fix my phone or buy new shoes... hmm, decisions, decisions... (5 seconds later) - OK shoes it is.

(Sexism Disclaimer: I'd be "fix phone or buy new phone" which is probably similarly pathetic.)

I haven't RTFA of course but in my experience it's a little different for more complex tasks. I find I remember where to find things, and/or how to find things, instead of remembering things. Typing or toasting bread are lower level tasks than that.

It's like not memorising phone numbers, I store them in my phone instead of in my head. I used to know people's numbers off by heart, now I don't ever bother learning them except for one or two key people. I don't feel the loss of this, I still have the ability to memorise phone numbers, I'm just spending that time doing something more interesting these days (like working out how to back up my phone's contacts list...)

This is how:

Gillard FTW

Yo dawg, I heard you liked memes...vagina.

Sigh.

(I agree with you, especially about the sharks/lasers one, but this is the internet - you're looking for logic in the wrong place.)

The office suite contains more than MS Word, I can only imagine the screaming if I told users at my office that we were going to move away from Outlook, or if I wanted to take Excel away from the finance people.

I would have expected non-MS apps to deal with Word documents fairly well.

Plus, if it was more convenient and also faster than air travel, more people would use it. One hour from LA to NY would take about the same time as my regular commute into work from the suburbs into the city (a distance of roughly 25 kilometres, in traffic).

Build it in Afghanistan?

Don't most Android owners just call their phone a "phone", not an "android phone"? Where Apple owners who call their phone "my iPhone", so that we know they are cool?

I tend to agree that iPhone users are likely to be more prone to drop their phone into the toilet, but including "android" in the trend results might skew things.

I'd guess (feel free to prove me wrong) that only people who spent a lot on their phone try to find out more info if they break it, so they search for repair info if it was broken/wasn't working properly and wasn't under warranty. A lot of those missing "cracked android screen" searches probably ended up as landfill.

Aren't these results also biased based on market penetration (I mean the "high end" smartphone market)? You'd need to filter results for iPhones compared to only other phones of similar quality to get a result you could use to refute the GP's suggestion that an iDevices "is no more nor less likely to break than other good-quality stuff".

This is the best citation I can come up with to prove that market penetration impacts on the results:

Google Trends search for "blackberry cracked screen"

"Your terms - blackberry cracked screen - do not have enough search volume to show graphs."

No - he didn't mention yellow bicycles.

How about Rule 34a: If it exists, there is dodgy car analogy porn about it?

You're saying these submissions are limited to specific cultures too? It isn't summer here.

Don't underestimate, fine, but you probably should account for the time to transfer the data from disk to tape and load all of the tapes into the SUV

If he's talking about the modern day equivalent, then it's extremely unlikely that his system stores its data on the tapes. The data would need to be moved off the tape and onto disk to be useful so the time taken to do that should be added to the comparison.

A large SATA disk will store a similar(ish) amount of data to a tape. We're talking about data transfer not long term storage requirement so for the purposes of the thought exercise it would be easier to use large SATA disks, or maybe SD cards.

I am sure someone with no time on their hands has worked out the relative bandwidth of a station wagon full of SATA disks versus a guy with a suitcase full of miniSD cards catching a plane back/forward.

I've chosen to ignore the possibility that you were trying to by funny. "Woosh" away, people.

There are a few other safe vendors - VMware, Citrix, IBM? I am sure there are others that have a fairly trusted rep/advertise heavily in the Harvard Business Review.

Google (or bing search, if you really must) for "MCSE: private cloud". They've turned HyperV into a "private cloud" as per the direction VMware have headed, or that's what MS are calling it anyway - a private cloud. They're at least making up ground on the VMware and XenServer offerings.

My point is that they aren't always that far behind the cutting edge.

Um, no. You may end up with the best of both worlds though - "deploy this, it's pretty rock solid, it's from Microsoft" and at the same time "this product sucks as much as Vista did, typical MS".

No matter what you do, if crunch time comes you'll get the blame if it suits for the people above you to let that happen.

I'm not trolling here, or am trying not to anyway - I am a fan of some of Microsoft's stuff, and other parts of their product suite drive me nuts. I recently built a Forefront TMG deployment and had a lot of fun doing it, at the same time I'd rather be castrated than be a full time Sharepoint dev/admin. (Based on some of the full time sharepoint admins I've worked with, that might be a mandatory employment criteria..?)

:-\ Oh well. Maybe she has a sister...

I wouldn't have thought so.

I thought the overhead of Aero was one of the reasons the original "Vista capable" devices performed badly? Stripping pretty effects out of the interface doesn't seem that drastic to me. If it represents a slight performance increase, I'll take it.

I don't ever spend a lot of time staring at the windows 7 interface, I don't expect to with windows 8.