It kind of works. Addressbook contacts can only have two email addresses, which took on a new level of irritating recently when my wife changed her name. More annoying is the use of mbox format instead of maildir, which results in whole mail folders being selected for backup every time, so for me that could be an unnecessary few hundred MB every hour with Time Machine.

Yeah, exactly. I read it in a more negative way: they have no idea what they've copied to other sites, but they have copied something.

Is any of that relevant? Look at the share of operating profits: two months ago iOS was still over 60%:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/09/daily-chart-6

It also runs on OS X, although VMWare Fusion isn't free. I use it most days. VMs are portable to other host OSes either.

I don't get this VirtualBox is easier than VMWare business. I haven't used VB, but the VMWare desktop products are so easy to use that I don't see there being much scope to make it easier.

Why would they do that when they already have their own lossless codec?

Having been on Orange at work, and then transferred to T-Mobile, I find it hard to believe the EE's service will provide anything like this kind of throughput. You'd be lucky to hit 500MB downloading non-stop for a month.

With Orange, the 3G data service was frequently utterly unusable. Imagine coming out at Oxford Circus in London and trying to use maps on an iPhone and giving up waiting for it to load and it being quicker to walk around Soho in circles to find your intended destination. Or taking the train to Edinburgh and data connections timing until shortly after leaving Newcastle when suddenly the connections starts flying (bandwidth shaping or over-subscribed?)

On T-Mobile, when my connection stalls, I find I have a T-Mobile Orange signal. Forcing it back to T-Mobile fixes the throughput. Recently a colleague was changed to EE and seems to be only getting Orange's data service.

Yeah, .Net 2.0 is such a new toy. The story says:

I'm mainly a VB.NET person with skills from the .NET 2.0 era. Is that it?

At 37 I'm younger than the person who wrote this... my skills in a Windows world are based in the realms of C++, MFC, COM, etc. .Net and everything from Microsoft since then just get easier. The kids in my team these days don't even know how to think outside their little sandbox (pardon the pun). When did this person start their career - at the age of 32?

How about the number one priority: hire somebody to run the IT department who has experience of this.

How is this any different to the way they behaved more than 20 years ago when they sued Microsoft over Windows?

What's the turn-over? How many old timers are still active or even lurking on here? Life and career are so busy for me now I barely have time to read the headlines on here.

That would be everybody who speaks English except for Americans. Not just the French (I assume that's who you were referring too in your puerile comment)

For most of the English speaking world, a "meter" is a measurement device, not a unit of measure.

China's a country of over a billion a people of different ethnicities and cultures, which you can't really look at it through the lens of averages or generalisations. The difference between rural China and Shanghai is far greater than the difference between Shanghai and Hong Kong. You might as well ask: why don't the people of the US rise up and demand better when their is so low?

No they're not. VW are crushing everybody at the moment, in terms of units sold:
http://www.economist.com/node/21558269

Not sure what this anti-Microsoft rant is all about. Microsoft licensed the technology long before IE came to dominate the browser market. Andressen also went to develop Netscape (forefather of Firefox). That business failed worse than Microsoft. So what?

Ahhh, translating between code pages...