I agree! Windows 7 built on what XP offered me and perfected it. I waiting until this year to go XP -> 7. I'm sure the Start Orb/Menu will be back in Windows 9 anyway. Touch screens are wonderful for tablets, but horrible for desktops - my monitors are 2+ feet away, my shoulders will get tired reaching for those silly tiles. Also, using a touch interface on a non-touch device is maddening, anyone who has used a recent BlackBerry OS on a non-touch BlackBerry can attest to that :-)

Also, my touch screen iPhone is always dirty, trying to read the text in Order & Chaos Online through the smudges can be really hard...does anyone even want that on their desktop monitor?? I get annoyed when the guy who works for me comes into my office to show me something and puts his nasty, dirty paws on my screen... I don't need an OS to encourage this behavior.

In the future of tomorrow, where everything is built by robots, I think I will need to own a few robots to eek out a living.

I hope I can still buy a new PC off-the-shelf with Windows 7 in a few months after Windows 8 is in a fully deployed nose-dive.

I used to think they could pry XP Pro from my cold dead fingers, now it will be 7 Pro that I want to keep for the next 10 years. We are running 8 on some test machines in our Enterprise test lab and Yikes, not a good business/productivity environment!! (we are finding users lose track of what they are doing when the switch applications, and no Start Menu?) I will be holding onto my Dell 7 Pro install media for a long time.

Windows 7 may be the best version since XP. I don't plan on going to 8. I will be waiting for 9 unless they mess that one up too.

Just took me back to my junior high / high school days. Thank you!

I'm in the same boat here. iGoogle.com and my.yahoo.com are my two main homepages when I launch Chrome. I use their bookmarks features quite often. Last year Yahoo! messed with the bookmarks on my.yahoo.com and tried to force everyone to use the Yahoo Toolbar to manage them. I nearly left Yahoo, but eventually they gave into their user requests and allowed them to be managed from my.yahoo.com again.

A very valid point. Does IBM AIX support wifi?

Now I want to get a $15 Belkin and just use it as a yard sign. It wouldn't be connected to the internet at all.

I think I saw that episode too.

Here in Nevada, they run anti-texting-while-driving commercials about every 15 seconds on television. The car has a custom plate that reads: TXT L8R

Why don't the use 1680x1050??

"There’s a big difference between mostly empty and all empty. . . . Now mostly empty is slightly filled. All empty—well, with all empty, there’s only usually one thing that you can do.”

“What’s that?”

“Go through his clothes and look for loose change.”

This is exactly what my son does as well. Used games are king. I feel bad for the future though because everything is becoming more and more "App Based". Download to the DSi once and you can't resell it. Or iPod/iTunes game-play based. Of course, the games are cheaper, so it could be a wash even without the resale value.

I am interested in how you meditate and what results you have observed. I am 36 years old and want to make sure I don't turn old and grumpy before my time.