And people accuse Apple of fleecing their customers.

The ending is great.

The best Windows ultraportable is a Macbook Air? Shocker.

Moneyquote: "PC manufacturers, like Vizio, can copy Apple’s focus on industrial design, but they can’t imitate Apple’s soul."

Interesting. Sounds so familiar, like another computer company has doing this for years. Can't place my finger on it, tho.

Moneyquote: "Only 56.81% of visits to TPM (November 2011) come from devices or computers using the windows operating system.

For points of reference that number was 75% in Nov.2007. And it’s fallen steadily each year since. By most standards that’s a pretty precipitous drop."

It was nice knowing ya, Windows.

Shameless.

Sounds like Microsoft is sick of getting their mediocre ass kicked by Apple.

Moneyquote: "The bad news is that Microsoft has lacked the guts to cut the cord entirely. Every time the classic Windows 7 interface pops up, it looks like a drunken uncle at an otherwise elegant family wedding. Here’s where the live demo started to break down. Microsoft proudly showed off Windows 8’s (comprehensive) power management features by calling up the Windows Task Manager. Would it be a beautiful Metro-ized tile, like all of the System settings panels they’d shown off? No: SPLAT. It was an old Windows window, plopped right on top of that lovely Start screen that I was still admiring."

Moneyquote: "There is no room in the future for Flash."

Paul Thurrott is a huge Windows fanboy. If he's throwing in the towel, wow....

Geez.

They still don't get it.

I'm reminded of Gene Hackman's line in Enemy of the State; "You're either incredibly smart or incredibly stupid.". And we'll find who's what in a few years time.

In WIndows 8, Microsoft has changed the Blue Screen of Death, to a black one. The catch? This means the acronym will remain the same; BSOD.