Now that CarrierIQ is also found on the iPhone (albeit in a harmless version), this is now considered Slashdot news. As long as only Android was affected it was apparently not considered newsworthy.

The visual design of the Windows 95 UI was a poor copy of the visual design of NeXTStep. Of Course NeXTStep had a decent OS underneath as well. So maybe you would have liked NeXTStep even better ;-)

...Mac Hardware. ( A bit more expensive than other distribution media. ;-)

Other vendors don't have such an expensive dongle to make money with.

Yeah: deep down C is just machine code with a couple of features such as a readable syntax thrown on top... What a fantastic improvement!

The vast majority of people do not want to learn how the system works. Only nerds want to do that. The vast majority of people want to use a computer and maybe they want to use it to learn something else (e.g. a spoken language), but when you make that task more complicated by having them learn how the system works, they are put off.

It seems, that some windows configurations will break this. However this is not universal, and your sweeping statement is unwarranted.

In my setup at work, there is *no* problem for me working in a windows evnironment!