I guess it's a good thing that the holodeck safeties are on, otherwise the phasers I replicated up would be FATAL to these drones.

Are you kidding? I still deal with at least one customer a week screaming that Win 8 is "not suitable for purpose" because, amongst other things, it has no Outlook Express.

All I need now to manage my inbox better is to not have to flip open a laptop to create a new filter whenever something comes through unlabeled on my tablet.

Not seen Into Darkness yet, but seriously, I have my doubts on this review. First Contact was incredible.

I never use an MS product aside from the XBox by choice, and I use OSX daily, but I think Bill Gates is a legitimately OK dude. I think if he made a return to MS, he could really turn things around for them, particularly with the lessons that Apple has taught the industry.

Also, it occurs me that such an obviously massive geek could be the antidote to the ultra-consumer tech. industry.

Reader fans can liberate their data and they've had years of free service. I know, because I am one. But if making pissy comments on a /. article makes you guys feel better, who am I to deprive you of that?

Consider this: would a company dedicated to RSS, in the way that Evernote is dedicated to notes, have been able to maintain a free service for as long?

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Top form, timothy.

The customizer has pretty serious rollover issues, IMO. But otherwise, they're very nice keyboards.

Look out, grandad! Those darned kids are on your lawn again!

This is pretty much how I view all markets. If microtransactions were so distasteful, there'd BE no market for them. For my part, I only buy games that I've heard good things about, and I haven't paid for any DLC in around a year, and I'm primarily a console gamer. There's plenty enough information out there that nobody can really claim to be "suckered" into buying a game that's poor quality, or half-or-more DLC.

Also, Penny Arcade writes with similar sentiments: http://penny-arcade.com/2013/03/01/microtribulations

I don't think it's necessarily an omen of man-/mouse- kind's rise to the seat of overstretched cyber-fascist galactic superpower, but certainly "not the Borg" is questionable. I think the Borg themselves would find fault with such a statement.

I did read the summary and wonder whether the guy is an Arthur C. Clark fan.

The follow-up mission carries a monkey. He's the pilot.

You are simply seeing a continuation of a trend that started when the original Wii release afterglow wore out.

This happens pretty much every update cycle. The new OS is still terrible and unfamiliar and incompatible, and the old OS still has good availability. The only difference this time is that somebody wrote an article about.

For the record: I'm an OSX, Android and 360 user. I don't particularly LIKE MS, but this is not the world-shaking revelation that the article and the rest of the comments are going to make it out to be.

AND SO... IT BEGINS.