They are building 100s of millions of them. Here you go https://www.voanews.com/a/on-w... Now do they have your permission to go ahead and work on other priorities

If you read the source you can see that a lot of them are three wheelers (e-rikshaws)

Honestly this attitude makes no sense. when somebody gets fired mostly it is due to their own incompetence or because the company is not doing well. in either case there is nothing the employee can do about it right away. It is better to accept it, work hard if you are found wanting, and try to find another job...

But if the passengers were allowed to keep their phones switched on, I am sure some of those phone would have been able to pick up signal somewhere along the way.. I know it flew on vast stretches of ocean, but at least there was some chance it was possible when they were flying low somewhere near the land.... What were your thoughts

I don't know where you are getting your data. But IE 8 + 9 has around 45% market share http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/03/01/internet-explorer-continues-growth-past-55-market-share-thanks-to-ie9-and-ie10-as-chrome-hits-17-month-low/

I call bullshit. We have have around 400,000 Outlook installation. We have seen hardly any issues. Whole MS office support staff is around 6 engineers.. Come on....

Okay. Lets do some simple math. Microsoft has spent 10000(Staff)*36($/Hour)*2000(hours/year)*5 (years) = 3.6 Billion Dollars. Lets bump it up to 5 billion dollars. Now the client division pulled in around 3.3 billion dollar profit in the last year 4th quarter http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY08/earn_rel_q4_08.mspx. Lets assume 50% of it is due to Vista licensing. This means they need around 3 quarters to make up all the money they spent on Vista.

Now the home for you. Write down. Go and calculate how long vista has been in the market and how long ago they broke even on Vista.

Also remember among those 10K staff, i doubt there will be more than 5 K engineers and managers who are directly working on Vista. Many of them would be shared resources and adminstrative staff.

Don't have to learn Hindi... I am an Indian and employed in Bangalore. You don't have to know Hindi to work in India. Many in my company don't understand Hindi. But all of them speak English. So don't bother learning Hindi.

The first and the foremost goal of OLPC is to educate kids in the third world nations. Whatever other goals anybody has should not come in the way of this primary goal. OLPC is an educational tool. We in the FOSS world are using this tool to promote our ideals. There is nothing wrong with it. But we should not cloud the primary goal of the project just to promote our world view. If the primary goal of the project is best served by using Windows XP, OSX or any other OS, then that OS should be used irrespective of OS's open source/free software status. And about the argument that kids will not be able to view source and learn, why do we assume that the kids wants to learn computer internals or software development? Majority of those kids will not end up in software domain. They will end up being doctors, architects, other engineering fields, manual laborers, Govt servants, etc. Even among those who end up in software development field, a fraction might be interested in OS internals and development and have the required aptitude. Why are we holding the remaining 99% (yes the statistics taken out of my ass, but show me any other statistics which says there are more than 1% of general population is interested in learning OS development) for ransom? Source code for all the stack running above Windows is still available and can be viewed. Windows does bring the advantage of being used most in the real world. This might prepare the reamining 99% kids to grow up and be employable in the real world. We in the FOSS world should not let our ideals and principles cloud our view of real world. Flame away