Please list one or two. I have never seen a single Microsoft app that has advertisements, are "buggy as shit", or even require payment. Let alone all three!

Fixed that for you.

Obviously there are differences and RT isn't for everyone.

Does that justify spreading lies about it on Slashdot? Come on. I realize it's cool to bash Microsoft here, but this is a bit much.

Last year our local atheist group had a booth at the city festival which attracts about 100,000 people over a three-day weekend.

The neighboring booth, a city initiative to increase corporate recycling, was manned by what was obviously a Christian.

I had allergies (it's an outdoors event), and EVERY time I sneezed (or anyone else nearby) the man would shout:

GOD BLESS YOU

as loud as he could. And, whenever he recognized friends from church walking by, he would go out of his way to yell to them in a similar manner.

He never once even spoke to us directly, other than the passive-aggressive sneeze blessings.

Another similar survey did just that. Instead of asking people based just on religion, they added "rapist".

http://atheism.about.com/od/atheistbigotryprejudice/a/Atheists-Trusted-Less-Than-Rapists.htm

The URL spoils it, but yeah, atheists were trusted LESS THAN RAPISTS.

If you can tell me a few of the "extra steps" you're taking in Windows 8, I'll be happy to suggest keyboard or mouse shortcuts that will make you happy.

Windows RT indeed has a desktop.

It has Windows Explorer.

It has Internet Explorer.

It has Control Panel.

It has Microsoft Office 2013.

And they're all so close to the Windows 8 versions that if I showed them to you, you'd think I was using a Windows 8 (non-RT) device.

Quit spreading lies.

It amuses me to think that some low-level IT guy from Twitter might one day go to Paris for his honeymoon ... only to get arrested at the airport until a $50 M fine is paid.

Except that students often get the full version (including Access and developer tools) for $49.

Home users get it for $149, for up to three PCs.

And anyone who uses Office at work with site licenses often gets to take it home for $20 or $0.

And if you want to restrict yourself to just the web client, Office on SkyDrive is free.

Because I've used it at friends' homes who have an X-Box and a Windows Phone.

Can't I love something that I don't have?

Normally I'm all about accuracy, but a progress bar that shows 0% for some time is quite disconcerting.

It makes me think the process has either halted or is waiting for me to do something, especially because it's right at the start.

I'd much rather see it at 10% right away.

And if you consider the time it takes the user to download the installer, click through the launcher, etc, then they're probably more than 10% along anyway.

The user's experience is more important to the user than the accuracy of a progress bar. If they leave the process feeling good about what happened, you've done your job.

I'm not advocating for a completely random indicator and I believe the time between 10% and 75% (or 90% if you prefer) should be as accurate as possible. But the inside and outside 10% should be gimmies for various reasons.

I'd be thrilled, except that I still have at least $200 invested in PS3 Rock Band DLC alone.

I think the classic geek mistake is being made here... that just because it isn't right for them, it's not right for anyone.

I don't own an X-Box (I have a PS3), but after hearing about all of the interactive and extended things it can do, I'm really wishing I would have bought the X-Box instead years ago.

I love the idea that it can act as a simple extender for my Windows-based home network. I know the PS3 can do this, but I've never been able to get it to work perfectly.

I love that I can control the Xbox now with a Windows Phone, using Smart Glass.

I'm interested in how the games and achievements from my Windows Phone can interact with the X-Box.

Lately I use my PS3 more for Amazon Prime videos than anything else. And I've spent more money on DLC, movies, and songs than I have on video games by a factor of 100.

These are all things that might be viewed by some people as wasteful, non-essential, non-gamer things. But to me, they're important.

The public opinion of the Progress Bar would be considerably more favorable if programmers would simply treat 100% as if it were 75%.

In other words, do all the stuff you have to do, measuring progress and whatnot, but when you're actually at 80%, report yourself at 60%. Likewise, when you're at 95%, say you're at 70%.

Then, only when you really are completely finished, you jump from 75% to 100% in under a second.

Complaints gone.

What would a company like Mozilla have to do to offend our privacy concerns anyway?

Companies like Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Yahoo have all kinds of information on us. It's part of their business model to walk that fuzzy line between privacy and profit.

But Mozilla, with a browser and a few other auxiliary apps, plus a website that very few people even use beyond downloading apps, just doesn't have the capacity to piss people off like the other companies do.

I might as well say that New Egg has an excellent privacy record when compared to Microsoft and Google. Or The Onion. Or the florist down the street.