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Windows is a dead OS walking. My humble advice is instead of learning Wish, get a Linux VM and start moving your skillset, aps, ets.

Romney never played the game to win, but to show there are even worse alternatives than the black Bush.

Any1 can come, but if he has a different opinion than PG on politics, "he" gets silent banned.

Than you can't watch movies, which may mean you can't communicate with regular, standard, movie-watching people, which may mean you can't get any business/job, which may mean you die of lack of money/healthcare/etc.

C'mon let's keep real. This is like saying: as long as you don't drive a Bentley there is no difference between an Audi and a Kia.

Well the future is hypothetical by definition, isn't it? MS has two choices now - invest in R&D and try to secure new markets or make maximum profits for it's shareholders from exiting markets. MS may not "need" to cut spending but every billion they spend on projects like Kim, Bing, Surface is a billion that could've been dividend or share's buy in.

Yes, that is now. But if Surface and a few more extremely expensive attempts fail, sooner or later MS will have to close the lab, fire many developers and concentrate on extracting value from it's existing shrinking markets.

Yes, that's exactly the case for engineers/designers/project leaders ;-) Smart people have a choice and IBM is a poor choice for anyone with ambitions, beyond a steady paycheck.

Unfortunately some people use words, without knowing their meaning:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothesis

Yes, it does, from my point of view. It's just another boring, suits-driven consultancy avoided by the really smart people.

MS is not a startup, that can go by with a promising product. It needs massive amounts of sales and with the current strategy Surface is not going to get them. IMHO MS should allocate an enormous amount of money, like $20T, just to get market share. Sell Surface way under component value, stop the stupid non-business use licensing of Office, take the risk to secure long-term high volume contracts with component vendors.

One of MS problems is there are no high DPI tablet panels on the market now. Apple has prepaid for all non-Samsung production and Samsung is keeping theirs for their own tablets.

IMHO steveb is the type of manager that can milk existing customers/markets, but not effectively lead MS in a full scale war vs Google, Apple and Amazon. The only way I can see MS not becoming IBM 2.0 is billg return.

Is it dangerous to use a high output power charger, like the HP TouchPad one, with a low consumption device, like a phone?