To never have to work Helldesk again?

Sign me up!

(I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords if they'll take over the most stressful jobs)

Have to admit...

While I'm a Windows user and administrator (there is no 8, only 7!), I have to admit I rather like the Mint Cinnamon I set up for my sister when rebuilding her old laptop. Most stuff did, indeed, 'just work', and it was easy to pull the packages she needed. Not so sure about packages I would use, but enough to do everything she needed just fine. Even the wireless was happy to play right out of the box.

If (9 minus 1) is the way of the future from now on, mark me down for a likely penguin convert next time I have to replace my box (if I can't find an old 7 license somewhere).

FirefoxOS

Haven't googled yet, anyone know if they're planning a desktop version?

Only I've got a spare older desktop that would be great for testing that out...

Now...

if they would just stick to their original intended purpose.

Interesting...

Does this affect our theories on the rest of the Universe's nature at all? The requisite balances of dark matter and dark energy?

Does this same phenomenon look to be true for other galactic cores?

Er... what about those of us who donate directly to a charity rather than going through a site? Don't we skew the numbers?

Auto-updates

Howabout a silent-install package, either of the self-extracting exe or a good ol' msi file, that could be distributed by my patch management server?

If they did that instead, I could endorse firefox on my network.

browser wars...

I find Firefox 7 to be a big improvement. And while I presume Chrome has 'em, I really really like tab groups.

I've had... not zero, but damned near zero issues with my plugins for the last several iterations of Firefox.

Still looking forward to 64-bit, though...

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Kudos on having a -good- CEO!

And, it's so irritating when a company is selling your company a product, that you're expected to support in-house (for most issues) after rollout.. but you can't get any IT data from them until the product is purchased.

@AC, 1548GMT:

<quote>Make _the technology_ serve the end user. The department is there to keep the stuff running, not "serve" the end user. You similarly don't want to turn IT departments into "shops" that cater to "customers". That way you get the end user claim he's always right, which causes all sorts of systemic pains later on. You want to have your IT department _work with_ the end user to tailor a solution, which is what your example did. So I'm a pedant, so I work in IT.</quote>

Spot on!

GPPs adding function

Discovered GPPs - and specifically, Item-level Targetting (will you be covering that?) just a few months ago.

I've found GPPs to be incredibly useful in enhancing the level of control and security compliance in my network - policies that I used to have to kludge an ADM template together for, I can now perform via GPP. Their mere existance lets me simplify management of my non-GPS policies immensely, and some of the additional features like Item-level targetting let me consolidate policies heavily without having to keep a script file updated with every name change, etc, as the network evolves.