Key phrase here is "Java Virus". Admittedly Windows maybe should have a better sandbox to contain evil like Java and its amazingly huge and numerous security holes but it really was Java and not Windows. Java is a stinking pile of (insert your favorite word here) or at least the current Java SE from Oracle is. Java is the current low hanging fruit, it was Windows, then Office, then Flash and now Java. Uninstall it or at least make it so it doesn't run automatically when you go to some web site serving up hacked ads with virus embedded.

While I agree with you pretty much totally I just had to chime in on this. Server 2012 aside from its interface oddities due to relation to Windows 8 is awesome I think. In every way better than 2008 R2, which was pretty good itself. I especially love the new Hyper-V and storage stuff. Live migration at any time with any hardware / storage is amazing and it is FREE in the box!

I run a 3 node cluster with about 30 production VM and 40 TB of disk all on Hyper-V R2. This supports 1000 users with almost perfect uptime. Just wanted to get that out of the way so you can't just shout me down as running a small setup.

In the current version VMWare wins with virtual disk live migration, something Hyper-V doesn't do yet. However with Windows Server 8 and its Hyper-V feature set I think parity between the two offerings will be much closer. Also I will guarantee Microsoft wins on pricing for features, since they are all inbox rather than add-ons.

I question what you were doing wrong? My first guess is you didn't bother to look up hotfixes for newer Intel / AMD CPU's. The most common cause of crashes with Hyper-V, maybe VMWare is immune to new hardware issues because it doesn't fully utilize the feature set? As for RAID corruption, I am not quite sure how Hyper-V could have caused this. Maybe driver issues or firmware on the RAID box?

I am not saying Hyper-V is going to instantly replace VMWare in all enterprises. However I think you paint a questionable picture of its ability to run in a production Enterprise environment.

I would love to see something to support this. I was on a university campus this weekend and I was curious about this myself. I actually counted PC vs Mac as I walked around and at best Mac was 20%? While I won't argue that Mac is gaining ground I would say a blanket statement like this is not quite correct. I think learning and being comfortable with technology is more important than learning either the Windows / Mac / Linux way to do things.

Also many of the implied exclusive features are built into windows as well? Lastly, um Steam I shall quote from https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?p_faqid=98
"The Mac version of the Steam client will be released in April, until that time we will be unable to provide support for Mac issues.
For more information, please read the following news post:
Valve to Deliver Steam & Source on the Mac
Please note that not all Steam games will be available on the Mac client. Availability will be determined on a game-togame basis."
Right now Steam runs 0 of the games and who knows what the future holds there.

I work at a school as a network admin where all the students have tablets in 7-12 grade. I get a few similar questions from parents every year, some even implying that the school caused the problems they are having at home and should fix them. The best course of action as others have mentioned is interacting with the kids. Over the shoulder parenting / net-admin works the best, if that fails taking away the computer works well too. However there are some technical solutions that I have helped some parents implement that are fairly non-techie friendly. I will say up front this will sound like a Microsoft commercial which is because it is what I have experience implementing. I am sure there are other solutions I just know this one can work. In Windows 7 it has some pretty good parental controls (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/features/parental-controls.aspx) and then you can further supplement it with the Windows Live Family Safety (http://download.live.com/familysafety). These two together do a really good job of time based controls and logging, there content based controls aren't as good but are functional. As far as backup you can use a Windows Home Server (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx) to handle that and it will also do some nice shared storage. The cost of this setup is really just the hardware / os and potentially the WHS box. The features are just built in and are intended to be non-techie friendly. I know they are since I have had parents implement them on their own and tell me they work.

I have to agree for me at least. It gave me 33 down and 38 up which is pretty close to my FIOS 35/35. Even with the problems outlined in the linked review I think the collected data placed against a given providers claims would be useful on a large scale. I wonder if the collect the ISP based on ARIN data?

Try DVDFab, it has Path Player to find hidden titles. Specifically to deal with this issue.

My prediction is that the RC will be officially released at 9 AM PST on May 11 when it is announced during the first keynote at TechEd 09 in LA. It well leak earlier, but I think it will officially go live then.

I would love to have students using something like the Kindle right now. Or even just digital texts on a tablet. The problem is the publishers are scared to death of E-publishing since they make a huge chunk of their money on the actual printing / binding not the content. We have had a really hard time moving to e-books because of this. Also it requires the teachers to shift to new texts which can sometimes be hard.

My fault for using terms interchangbly that shouldn't be. When I said Proxy I should have said caching. I was actually curious if your device does caching to shrink internet bandwidth for redundant hits based?