In most cases that I have seen, management would tell IT to block the nag screen in some way and business would continue as usual. IE6 will prevail until great robot uprising destroys us all. Of course, the great robot uprising will have been caused by a worker-bot stuck using IE6 contracts a piece of malware and it spreads amongst the other worker-bots.

You are either making a very bad and potentially misleading analogy or you have no idea how vaccines work. If the latter, please hand in your posting card on the way out. If the former, welcome fellow /.er!

And nagging to the desktop users being held back by the IT department does what? Or do you just not read the posts that you are replying to?

With a battery like this, my Sprint EVO might last a full workday on a single charge!!!

This isn't a genetically-enhanced super virus or anything, it is a common virus. Granted, assuming the process does not disable the virus, there is the slight chance that an exploded (or improperly disposed of) battery could infect a nearby field, but it is far more likely that the virus . We are talking about a 10-fold increase in capacity here, though. That is huge. Assuming it scales linearly, the Nissan Leaf's 100 mile average capacity would be expanded to 1000 miles. I drive a ton for work, and that means I could still travel for a week on a single charge. Now, lets just hope this isn't vaporware and can be implemented without increasing the cost of production by more than the capacity increase.

How many Android phones do not have a custom UI? Or are you not referring to things like TouchWiz, MOTOBLUR, and Sense? Also, for every big android phone of the month like EVO, Galaxy S, Nexus One, G2, or Nexus S, there are at least 20 new phones with near minimum specs and Android 1.6 or 2.1 if you are lucky. Don't get me wrong, I love my EVO, but with graphically intensive games it helps to have less hardware and software differences to compensate for. If they only target, say, phones with Froyo and 1 Ghz or faster processor, they are limited to Nexus One, EVO, Droid X, Droid 2, G2, and maybe a few others(IIRC the US Galaxy S phones do not have 2.2 yet, but the European models do).

Can't watch the video ATM, but unless they have radically changed their goals I don't think the point is to completely replace the desktop. Programs such as Photoshop and Visual Studio are not run by the masses and I don't believe they intend to kill those off. Most people use their computer for email, web browsing, web video, and maybe some light document editing. All of these are completely possible with just a web browser and google apps. This type of usage on netbooks and nettops are the target market for Google here. Until broadband is universally much faster and cheaper I don't think we will see a replacement for powerful desktop apps for video editing, photo editing, and programming.

Personally, I just hope someone makes a good OS based on Chromium OS but for dual-booting. It would be nice to have quick access to the net when I don't want to wait several minutes to come out of hibernation or longer for full boot.

Chrome OS is a Linux-based OS. Maybe you meant without a full Linux desktop environment like KDE or Gnome?

As long as they are willing to eat at Denny's (or whatever the UK equivalent).

WOW64 is what I have always seen it referred to as, but Wikipedia had the following:

"Alternatively "WOW" may also refer to support for running 32-bit applications on 64-bit versions of Windows - known as WOW64."

This is why I included it in my comment. In any case, WOW does not refer to "userland code...ported from Windows 9x".

Yes, and Windows on Windows is (was) the component used to run Win16 applications on the 32-bit platform. Here is a wikipedia article on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_on_Windows

It needs some better citations, but it is basically the same thing that is in MS certification textbooks.

I agree, but Office and Internet Explorer are not good examples, especially IE. Internet Explorer is updated via the standard Windows Update, and upon installation of Office, you are directed to Office Online where there are several links recommending the use of Microsoft Update instead of Windows Update. Your post is true for the myriad of other Windows software that does not update via Windows Update or Microsoft Update; like Flash, Adobe Reader, Java, TurboTax, all the crapware preinstalled on PCs, etc.

What Microsoft should have done, is have something like apt where software can(with user approval) add a third-party repository for updates via Windows Update. That way they are not seen as controlling what software gets updates and when, but provide a means for software to automatically update without installing yet another utility that runs all of the time. This would also help clear some crap from the notification tray.

Plus that survey assumes that they know they are using OSS. There are tons of firewalls, content filters, spam filters, etc, that use linux but have a nice web interface and/or Windows-based management tools. For a quick couple of examples, the Barracuda and Watchguard devices that I have worked with are all running linux.

WOW does not refer to the userland ported from Win9x, it referred only to the components used to run win16 applications written for Windows 3.x. In 64-bit versions of Windows, they now use "WOW" or "WOW64" to refer to 32-bit application support.

Well, Slashdot is not a collective hive-mind on any subject, but with regards to the copyright infringement of music, the infringing party is normally not doing the infringing for commercial benefit, and the rewards are monstrous. For example, after 2 appeals, Jammie Thomas now owes the RIAA $1.5 million for 24 songs. This, on the other hand, is a case of commercial infringement, and the infringing party was asked to donate a small amount of money to the Columbia School of Journalism as compensation. The infringing party then responded rudely to the request and made some pretty bold statements. Sure, she probably should not have received that level of harassment, but if that is enough to fail the business, it was doomed from the start. If you want to start a small business doing anything, it is your responsibility to understand your legal obligations. Would you say it is a tragedy for a small food stand run by a couple neighbors to be shut down for not following proper health and sanitation procedures? Should we feel sorry for them because they were ignorant to their obligations?

Now, she comes out with a boat-load of excuses and a half-assed "apology". And she wants everyone to feel sorry for her? I think I will just sit back and enjoy watching her "tragedy".