They're used to microing from all that Starcraft.

I still wear one. I even use the scheduler. I love having the little 2-week preview with dots on the days with events (a dot on the current day will blink). It sucks that Casio discontinued them not too long ago.

Well that part just goes without saying, really.

To everyone suggesting blasting the landing zone flat, have you considered what sort of scientific data we could recover from from a site that's been razed with Earth explosives? If this ice is enough to ruin a spacecraft, then anything capable of dealing with it on a scale needed for a safe landing is going to fling contaminating detritus for probably miles. So we could land, and... then what?

So we've got OCR nailed. What NP-hard problem do we dupe the spammers into solving for us next? Can we throw halting problem at them, or should we work up to it with traveling salesman first?

Increasing goodwill to sell more hardware, and burning a bit of revenue to rake MS over the coals a little.

It's still handy to have it back on a tablet. In 8, you can right-click the lower-left corner of the screen to get a nice shortcut menu, but with no spatial presence, it was pretty much impossible to tap-and-hold the corner. Now in 8.1 there's at least a target for your finger to open that menu.

Certainly not that keyboard with the keylogger embedded in it!

Well, we can't trust that copy/paste hasn't been back-doored.

As far as you know. (Spooky music goes here.)

If only there were some sort of pocket-sized device one could use to test for voltage.

Alternative solution: build the thing with the flash drive protruding from a transparent acrylic box/panel.

I like spreadsheets, and Excel absolutely has its place, but I'm not going to use a garden shovel to dig a quarry.

The problem is if they cede the home/consumer market, the average non-IT staff member will become familiar with something else from their personal use. Now as an IT manager or CIO, you can decide to either gravitate toward what's more mainstream (assuming software vendors fill in the necessities, which is typical), or increase training spending to keep end users on the legacy platform nobody uses at home anymore. You can't make that kind of organizational switch overnight, but eventually the IT staff will also migrate toward the new popular platform, and then staff expenses will go up (I'm often tempted to learn Cobol to soak up maintenance programming contracts). It's just not feasible to turn your back on mainstream consumers and expect to maintain growth in enterprise when talking about these kind of horizontal markets.

I've got Crohn's disease, so my ping times are faster.

Unencrypted volumes can be easily modified when mounted on a different system; film at 11.