In another words, a bloated gas guzzler (Score 1)

Remember when cars got bigger and bigger till the gas crisis at the end of the '70s? They guzzled so much gas at a time when the price per gallon skyrocketed. Now Microsoft proposes electricity guzzling computers in order to run their fat and inefficient code?

Now electricity prices are going up and demand is close to capacity. If everybody has to buy a big damn electricity hog of a computer just to run an operating system, we're going to trip more circuit breakers. The air conditioning systems are going to have to work harder too!!

Microsoft still hasn't learned to write better designed and more efficient code. Which is why Linux will win out because it can run on all those older computers with ease. In a slow economy, who's going to spend the buckaroos on an expensive computer to use office and internet applications.