First of all, this wasn't an "accidental suicide", it was an accidental death.

Second of all, putting "wii" in the title is highly misleading and is typical of today's media which is more interested in tabloid journalism, trying to grab everyones attention by assuming all your readers are more responsitive to these kind of headlines.

My respect for Slashdot just went down a few.

I for one welcome our undersea, coconut wielding, overlords.

There's been a few documentaries on the Discovery channel where they've not only mention how intelligent they were, but even suggested they might have emotions.

This is all we need, a conspiracy about a conspiracy.

"That second extreme is not a typo: Microsoft really did time an upgrade that took 20 hours and 20 minutes. That's with 650GB of data, 40 applications, on mid-end hardware, and during a 32-bit upgrade."

So from now on, all I'll hear is how Windows 7 takes "...nearly a day" up upgrade, based on these extremes.

Wow! Yahoo looks a lot different than it used to.

"They ARE fixing UAC, and they ARE slimming down Vista. I quote from the article."

They ARE NOT slimming down Vista. They are selling a whole other product.