Windows 9 would become known as "Windows nein " and not just by German speakers. It would confirm and confirm the eclipsing of Windows.

In any dual boot arrangement the install sequence is important. Windows 7 bullies other systems on disk. If you install Windows 7 on a system with Ubuntu, Windows will offer to completely format the disk and if you reject that, it disables booting of Linux as Windows uses its own MBR loader, which disables the Linux GRUB boot loader. It won't trash the Linux partition, but will make it invisible! Repairing the bootloader is a chore and not straightforward. However if you install Linux after Windows, the Linux bootloader plays nice with Windows and offers a choice of OS on booting.

This story looks like a Microsoft troll. The link to the story http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=1329&zoneid=12 does not provide any link to NASA as a source. Without a source we must suspect a hoax. Sending a 4MB OST file to space back and forth sounds incredible, bandwidth wasteful, as information as text would be very large at 4KB per transmission. 4MB could be 2000 pages of text.! I have exchanged emails from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on a yacht using SSB radio and a Pactor modem http://www.scs-ptc.com/shop/categories/modems-en at 2400bps. Why, because bandwidth over a HF radio link is limited. There are many lightweight email clients and command line equivalent email clients that can communicate without the noise associated with animated smileys and gifs. The message is important, straight ASCII, tells it all. The medium here is not the message.

From Eircom and other ISP's viewpoint, blocking torrent access reduces their traffic substantially and leaves more bandwidth available for spam! Priceless!

If it lands in your backyard, you will have a building site.