Mind you in saying that the only sites I've found which sell cheap games in Australia import from the UK or US.

While the big name retail stores in Australia are nearly always really expensive, when you shop around a bit you can normally find pretty cheap places. My local computer store for example got $2333AU all up for the software category on the article, where their US shop got $2120 and their AU shop got $3183 - and thats with me including the price of Project 2010 standard from Microsoft's AU site rather than my shop, because they only provided 2010 Pro there. So while it's definately more expensive when you go to retail stores and the like, you can nearly always find good prices shopping around a bit.

Most machines from 2007 will support Win8. Hell my desktop is 5 years old, I'd be pretty pissed if Microsoft considered my quad-core desktop w/ 4Gb of RAM not good enough to run their latest OS. Yes I understand it's hardly an entry-point machine, but ML does drop support for any Mac pro from before *2008*, which (if you got a higher-end machine) does include some very decent quad-core hardware. I do think Apple needs to be a little kinder to people with older hardware, especially considering how meager some of their improvements are in ML.

To be fair, most of the machines that ML drops I'd hardly call archaic

Whys he been modded down... hes right. First generation Intel Macs ran the core duo - a 32bit processor. Lion requires 64bit (Core2 and up)

I see where your coming from, but I guess the keyword is *updated* antivirus program. By a similar token why bother with any security at all if malware can exploit it anyway.

I see where your coming from, but I guess the keyword is *updated* antivirus program. By a similar token why bother with any security at all if malware can exploit it anyway.

Jokes aside though this is awesome. Regardless of Microsoft's motives, an open future for computing is a good future.

The reports are just coming in... and yes, it is indeed a cold day in hell!

I'd say most of Microsoft's software problems stem from the fact that they tend to over-complicate all their software. While sometimes a good thing (I'm sure all the backward compatability and hardware flexibility in Windows was no easy task) I'd say its probably keeping them from being the company with the most stable and reliable software. I'd personaly rather a desktop system with occasional issues than one with little/no backward compatability (MacOS).

Yeah my laptop has a high res screen (1920x1080 on a 15" panel) and with my DPI set to the next highest setting (110 or 120 dpi - don't have it in front of me to check) most applications are fine but there are quite a few that mess up a fair bit and were obviously hardcoded around 96dpi (I'm looking at you, iTunes).

I heard several Munich city officials were later admitted to hospital with chair-related injuries

Are you using the LTS releases? I havn't used the 6-month releeases in ages (due to the number of bugs) but I've been using the current ubuntu LTS for months now and havn't really had a problem with bugs at all.