Like they aren't already calculating the sales from Lighting to USB adapters and cables they'll be selling.

This guy's company has at least one excess headcount, namely him. Let him try living like the rest of us for a year and then talk about how headcounts at companies are "excessive".

My car is from just a couple of years before the whole infotainment center thing, but it does have a few voice commands for making hands free calls, and god is it terrible. I can't imagine people wanting to PAY to listen to what is essentially a phone message tree. "Press 1 for Customer Service" "Press 2 for Grocery" "Press 3 if Your Floor Had the Gas Leak" "Press 8 for More Options"

This phone might be great for blind or vision impaired people, but for everyone else, I expect the charm will wear thin very quickly.

Nah. Way too much potential to mine that sweet sweet personal data. Neilson only wishes they could get this kind of info about what people watch.

The consumer loses. The consumer ALWAYS loses in cases like this.

And is this child sex ring in the room with you right now? Could we talk to the child sex ring?

I just hope the WI government doesn't give Foxconn another thin dime until they can show some actual results. Like some kind of product rolling off assembly lines or just SOMETHING.

And racing electric golf carts... leaving them wherever they ended up when the charge ran out.

You can still get the perpetual license version of Office. Sure, they don't advertise that it exists very heavily, and it only gets bug fixes and security updates instead of the slow drip of new features like 365, but it exists. The Slashdot Deals version of Stack Social is running a promo right now where you can get a license for $36US.

No, that was Microsoft OFFICE 365, which was to differentiate between the subscription based version and the "we begrudgingly still offer it, but you really want to look at the shiny new Office 365" perpetual license version like from days past.

I was shocked to know that this existed in the first place. Like so many others before it, I only found out it existed when it was announced it was going away.

TPM has its uses, the UI is subjective, and you can use the Windows store as much or little as you want. The only exception would be people using the "S" mode Windows, which can be switched off if you want.

I really don't understand people's need to bash Windows. Why not just find something that works for you and not waste the time and energy worrying about what other people are using? And even if you just can't resist the urge to troll, at least take a modicum of pride in your work. There are plenty of things wrong with any OS that you don't need to resort to no-effort, subjective, and/or misleading/wrong talking points. You could talk about how Linux exists in a perpetual "almost there" state for the average user, and has existed in that state for the past 20 or so years because everyone keeps reinventing the wheel. Or how macOS is terrible at managing large numbers of open windows. If you want to complain about the Windows UI, you could at least say how every subsequent version does a half-assed job of converting the old widgets to the new look and you end up with this hodgepodge of different styles from different design philosophies.

What flavor kool-aid do you prefer? Grape, Strawberry, or maybe Cherry? Does one flavor do a better job of masking the crazy pills being mixed in?

You'd think so, but you're probably giving far too much credit to people. You ever look around at your place of employment and wonder how anything gets done since so many people don't seem to have a clue what they're doing? It's not just where you work. Stupid shit goes on all the time, pretty much everywhere. I could very easily see this being a case of some low paid and overworked secretary emailing someone the wrong file, and the recipient of that file just blindly copied and pasted the text into the back end system to feed into the website.

Will we finally get a Global?