When Google purchases a company and then kills it, leaving a hole in the market, that leaves room for medium sized companies to expand and for startups to come back and serve the general demands and niches.

That's an awfully pleasant thing to bring up. OK, back on topic!

My company purchased 73 surface devices roughly a month ago. Out of those, over a dozen have locked up or discharged themselves in a matter of half an hour. The rest are behaving themselves. I do not know how this speaks for their stats as they are either cherry picked, or my company alone got the "1 in 100000" devices (based on their sales numbers), but we did not report these numbers to Microsoft, so I am unsure of how they are coming up with their estimates!

He would have been far better off spending the time and energy to study and improve himself not only to do better in academia but concordantly in business. In the amount of time he spent hacking, he could have aced everything. Instead, he fails miserably, demonstrates his moral fibre, and shows that he will excel at nothing but politics.

Sad.