I remember looking at their back catalog when I was considering whether to go work for them. Nothing. Everything they had were either franchises squeezed out of their originality by having over ten installments in each, or one-off cashcows based on popular movies at the given time. No originality whatsoever. Ubisoft have gone the way of EA.

Let's hope that's the beginning of a trend rather than an isolated case. Not that $40 matter much to me on a $1000 machine, but I'd never ever want to give them to Microsoft. If I ever get a Windows discount, I will donate it to the FSF or some other free software project.

Examples?

Let's do the math. Windows with IE, $200. Windows without IE, $400.

Therefore, cost of IE alone: -$200.

So that's how much IE is really worth!

I don't understand how it is legal to enact a law whose text is not public. Somebody please explain!

But if they cannot do caps, at least they won't be able to advertise more than they deliver. Right now they advertise lightning speeds, but only until you hit the cap.

So are these coming to Europe any time soon or will they be for the Asian market only?

Eight hours on a battery at a 200$ price point? Windows is dead.

Heh, the US has it easy. Try finding anything preinstalled with Linux in Bulgaria.

I long for the day when Microsoft's greed will not be able to set the direction of anything.

Microsoft did it: they managed to make ODF scary - it may or may not work. It was a brilliant FUD move.

Until they decide to actually support Linux as they should, they must at least offer the ridiculously simple option of no fucking OS whatsoever, with a nice warning for the general population that this option is only for people who know what they're doing. How hard is that?

he gets a big glass of water, takes everything off

I stopped reading right there.

Some people use tabs for keep related pages into one window, while another set of related pages (but not related to the ones in the first set) sits in another window. There is probably some other UI concept that covers this case, although only time will tell if it works better than tabs.

I, on the other hand, mostly use tabs as a task list. If there are N links on a page that need processing (i.e. search results), I will quicly go over them with a ctrl-click, and get N tabs. Then I will start prcessing each, pressing ctrl-W when I'm done. This way I do not have to click back and forward, and I do not have to remember were I were if I decide to pause.

I can't see anything replacing tabs for the latter, short of some convoluted craziness that will only exist to "have something different". Anyone want to prove me wrong?

It took my about 750 ms to get this one. Beautiful!

What's your point?

Just because Linux allows for customization, it does not mean customization is necessary. And while technical users will customize, most people will not.

Besides, cstomization takes time and effort. And while I've customized the hell out of my Gentoo desktop, I could not be bothered to do something like that again on a netbook. On anything other than said Gentoo desktop, the default Ubuntu experience is all I've ever wanted.