Why didn't some Microserfs leave the company, take their inside knowledge, and build a "Microsoft Linux"? Such a product, with great support for WINE and Mono and so on would have opened up all sorts of paths for true innovation?

OK, so M$ finally scored with Xbox, but the largest game platform these days is Apple's iOS, see ya later. They finally won a war only to learn they conquered a small planet. As for another old tech, M$ has been killed in the renewed Browser Wars with the ascent of Chrome. The ubiquity of apps that require IE inside of corporations can only last so long and then M$ will fade from the browser market. Micro$oft has turned into "that stuff I use at work" while people are computing everywhere else with everything else BUT Windoze. See ya in the history books.

I am a devoted Dvorak keyboard user, but I have to still retain my QWERTY capacity as I don't want to be like "that guy that insisted on Dvorak". Also, as the Wall Street Journal recently pointed out, my Blackberry is QWERTY only. I put new stickers on the keys of my ergonomic keyboard, but not on my laptop keyboard. I just type Dvorak from memory on the laptop. It can be tough though with passwords.

Just in case you need it, in Windows go to Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages Tab > Text services and input languages > and find US Dvorak or US English on the list of input keyboards.

The original post should have been picked up as a West Coast troll...

Carl's Jr is a hamburger chain that ran TV ads for at least a year stating that their chicken was from whole pieces of chicken because "Chickens don't have nuggets." Obviously, there is no such thing as a "Carl's Jr. chicken nugget". The other bit of irony here was "indescribably delicious". That was a reference to the amorphous nature of "chicken nuggets".

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