The fact that all the feedback they received during development pointed to the OS being a steaming pile of donkey doo doesn't mean a thing apparently. "Let's just dress up this donkey doo and tell people it's great! It'll work. They do the same thing with music all the time! Get some crappy band who plays crappy to mediocre music, dress 'em up, make a couple good music videos, pay for some good radio play, and promote them on iTunes/Rhapsody/etc, and people will think they're great! We'll sell more than enough to make up for the money doled out to promote them!" "Wait... what? It didn't work? What the F***?!?!?"

Right on the money... so the question then becomes "What is Windows 8 setting the groundwork for?". I shudder to think of what's next.

You've hit the nail on the head. Where was the help this young guy needed beforehand to get past whatever anger he harbored?

And they'll definitely be supporting it until then, I think. I really can't see Win8 getting much support or success in the corporate world. It's been said many times in many corners of the internets that Win7 will be the next XP... I say it already is.

I call it the ISOD (International Screen of Death)... for obvious reasons if you've ever seen it. If you've never seen it, just Google 'mac kernel panic'.

This! You hit the nail right on the head with every point. Thank you sir.

Do the government officials in California truly believe that the larger retailers (Amazon) won't find a way to circumvent this legislation, just as they avoid paying federal taxes? Microsoft pays a very small fraction of the state taxes they technically should owe the state of Washington, for example, as Apple does in California. Granted, they aren't retailers in the same sense as Amazon et al, but they do have a good percentage of online retail income.

Guess that's better than temporary insanity...

As a frame of reference, I'm also with Century "NO" Link with 10mbps DSL, and pretty rural. Indeed, if I had ANY other viable choice, I would leave CL in a heartbeat, as their service is terrible. However, my latency is typically around the 30-40ms range when I am connected, so if you're getting ~300ms, then there is an issue somewhere. Given my history with them, most likely the problem is on their end. My neighbor is with them also, and also has the 10mbps package, and we will both simply lose connection at random times throughout the day, almost every day. I've had their techs out many times over the years, and the problem still exists. In fact, just this last Friday it was down for more than 4 hours. Sometimes it's 4 seconds, sometimes 4 minutes... unfortunately, sometimes it's 4 hours too. I call every time there is a disconnect, yet they can't seem to find an answer. They're just awesome... or not. Switch providers if you can!!!

Hit the nail on the head. Period... end of discussion. Thank you!

It isn't just about what's on TV, but also the channel packages that are forced upon the us in order to get the channels that we might actually WANT to watch. Rather than letting us pick only the channels we want, we are forced to get a package that includes 500 channels... 490 of which we'll never watch, 5 more of which will be watched once every other month, 3 that will be watched once a week, and 2 that might get more regular viewing. If we could customize our content, that would go a long way toward fixing what's wrong with TV.

It _would_ make sense, which is why it didn't happen that way. I used to love Best Buy, but these days I will almost go out of my way NOT to purchase from them. They seem to have forgotten what made them a great place to shop, since these days they are anything but, and it's a shame.