If you want to see windows melt all you have to do is wait. If you're in a hurry, bypass the firewall.

In a world with Nuclear Boy Scouts I'm not comfortable with home appliances that create antineutrinos.

Believe it or not, the CIA has quite an active cupcake special interest group. They're not all trying to find ways to make their microwave mind control ways penetrate your tinfoil helmet. Well, not all the time anyways. Some members of the cupcake SIG might be working on that too.

Yes, you're modded troll for a fair reason. But this is a nice spot to put that for about that cost ($1943) Backblaze makes a box that you can put drives in up to 180TB, that you can take with you in the event of an emergency. You can even fit three of them - and switches, PDUs and the rest - in an armored roller case like we use to roll about pre-built demo server and SAN solutions. That's a half-petabyte of raw storage, in a rolling case. A pair of those geographically separated with a good 10Gbps fiber link ought to do for most Enterprise storage needs, and software synch is free. The fiber and 10Gbps NICs would cost more than everything else (10G NICs, fiber and drives not included in unit cost).

Modern Windows will run as well on this hardware as Google Chrome would on a TRS-80. The efficiency of the software counts too.

That's what people said about the Galaxy Note. Somehow though last August they hit 10 million sales after less than a year. Many billions of dollars in revenue will help soothe the pain of being made fun of.

Actually when Android first came out phone makers didn't want to make a high-end "candybar" phone because it would be ridiculously expensive, so Google paid to have one made and the demand proved itself enough that phone makers came onboard and Google could retire their own-brand phone. Now Android is the number one smartphone OS, nearly 3x ahead of its nearest competitor and by itself over two thirds of global unit sales. This is probably that evolution again.

OEMs ought to buy a hint one day and when Google says "we're thinking of making an X..." leap into that briar patch. God knows OEMs have made enough failed Wintel and Windows Phone products to hit their career fail quota, and on the winners they make bupkiss, nada, zilch. Google doesn't want to own-brand their products and they're not great at it, but if OEMs will stand in the the way of progress Google needs must march around them and move on. Waiting and begging for people to let go of their Windows obsession was for the old way when Google was not a more influential, successful and bigger company than Microsoft is. Google are becoming less patient with impediments to their vision of the future. Once it was "we think this might be neat." Now it's "help or get out of the way."

Driving Google to get good at product manufacturing, sales and delivery is not a good incumbent device OEM survival strategy. If OEMs make them do that, Google will be as good at it as everything else they set their minds to. I.E. Google will eat the entire client device OEM ecosystem if they must to drive progress. They'd rather not - the progress is what they want and if the OEMs will deliver it they can put their effort in other places. But if they must, they will.

It's a notebook smaller in every dimension than the Macbook Air with higher resolution, the same processor and RAM. Storage is lighter, but that's OK because ChromeOS / Linux doesn't require as much storage. This is not like the Surface Pro that requires 35GB of storage for the OS, Office crudware and recovery partition - the OS probably takes 3GB altogether and wouldn't even install on this little space. It's about the same weight, slightly less battery life, comes in a 3G wireless version that Macbook Air doesn't. Mini Displayport can drive a nice 30" high-def monitor, or your bigscreen with an adapter, just like the Macbook Air.

Not quite sure what you're on about with Outlook and Exchange. Both of those are going to cripple themselves to not play well with anything that isn't Wintel until their dying day - which will because of this be sooner rather than later. It turns out that "Outlook and Exchange" are not quite the definition of "email" except to the history impaired. The sort of machine that used to serve as an email client wouldn't even make a decent watch now, and it used to be the size of a refrigerator.

The small local space is perhaps the point. You can install a real Linux on it if you want to and run ChromeOS in a virtual machine. The processor even supports VT-x. That would be real nice. Since it's already Linux you can count on the drivers. You can remote then to any sort of machine you want to interact with. But any sort of Windows on the local client device is just not going to work for lack of drivers and as you note, storage space. This is not a box to put your pirated Windows 7 on, let alone Windows 8.

If you want to complain about something on this device the I/O features don't include USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt, so it lacks even a full gigabit of connectivity to data in the outside world. There are a couple dozen people in the world who are going to be disappointed by that.

They broke compatibility with every update. But only for the programs they wanted to compete with. That is how they won with office. Now they are breaking compatibility with everybody all at once.

If Nokia still sold Symbian, it would still take 20% of the smartphone market. Even if they didn't change it. People really liked it for some reason.

If Microsoft's billions could make a compelling mobile product, it would have done so already.

Thank you. You have encapsulated in a single post why Microsoft is failing - while trying to defend their choices. That is a meta fail.

Intel has it. They're just not selling it to you. They have to figure out how to prevent us from running webserver VMs on this hardware before they release it. Unfortunately for them it's a lost cause. The people making these decisions really don't understand the mechanics of the situation, or how clever software can extract the utility of a GPU and deliver it to a cpu. Intel is now run by business geeks who really don't understand the tech. From here the end is clear.

I think ISVs are on to their "culling" scheme, and eager for a level field.

Intel sells server chips into the HPC market. These guys can run LINPACK on a TI99, and would if it gave good metrics per watt and dollar. Intel has a corporate culture to protect their server CPU margins by not "cannibalizing" it with alternatives that cost less and do more. Same on desktop.

Their problem is that if they won't eat the slow-moving members of their tribe, there's another tribe who will.

Intel has a cabinet where a whole bunch of innovation is stored up against a firm competitor. Now might be a good time to pry it open.