Windows 8

Our users love it, including the new start menu. I guess not being technical, they are were not so easily swayed by bitter techies. Who'd have thought that IT staff would be more resistant to change than the business?

So profits are up across the board, despite the shrinking PC market. Not bad for a company that many commentards on here have been writing off for years.

No surprise

People are starting to realise that e-ink isn't actually that great compared to a modern LCD screen, especially if you are not doing most of your reading in direct sunlight.

Generally, the massive amount of functionality that a tablet provides compared to a single purpose device like an e-ink Kindle more than makes up for those rare times when then tablet isn't practical for reading on.

"Interestingly, however, for web browsing over cellular networks, Android actually edges iOS, with 34.4 per cent of all mobile web traffic versus 32.8 per cent for iOS:"

Andoid users are smart enough to use the correct device for the correct task. If you want a full browser experience, desktop/laptop is still the best. So when in the office/home, it is probably stil the case that a lot of people use a ful lsize device with a full size keyboard and monitor, and of course support for all the major websites and technologies (obviously this won't be the case for long, but for now it is probably a valid assumption).

Perhaps people who spent hundreds on an iPad feel that they need to use it, even when better options are avaiable, to justify the expense?

Great choice

Well, better choice than for the prequels anyway!

It does do iPlayer though...

Still doesn't detract from the overall review though.

"..employing Windows Server Datacenter Edition. For these organizations "8 extra Windows Server instances" comes "free" and the cost of server resources required to run the entire System Center suite is just a rounding error."

I thought Data Center comes with an ability to run an unlimited number of VM's. Where does the limit of eight come from?

Really?

How many of those are stock, and how many are rooted?

Marked "read later"

...With instapaper.

Who cannot read?

"The figure doesn't include freebies, either."

So all of you talking about freebies, go back and read the article.

Personally I think this is fantastic news. More people reading (even if it is trash) is always a good thing. I know that I have read more books this year already than in the last three years combined.

Why is he offended?

GoT is more entertaining than the circus that was his time in office..

Striping across SAN units?

"This includes Array Software 6.0, which turns the disk clusters into a SAN and automatically virtualizes and optimizes the placement of data on the arrays."

So this means that as well as striping across disks, we can strip the entire thing across several Equallogic units? I hope so, we have been waiting for that..

Lewis Page in...

A race against time for Lewis to convince people that journalists know more then climatologists about the climate. Shot in 80's style, which cheesy music, freeze-frame effects, and plenty of rubbish special effects, and of course Lewis completely and utterly misinterpreting even the most basic whitepapers.

The ending is a race against time after Lewis is buried under an avalanche of his own making (from print outs from conspiracy sites), and he is rescued just in time to be mocked in public again as he gets his next article into El Reg.

Yawn

Who cares what Gartner say? The only thing Gartner seem to get right regularly, is that idiots will pay to listen to the garbage they peddle.

Can't come too soon.

Price fixing by the publishers is inexcusable, and I hope the judge throws the (e)book at them.

News? Or advertising?

I am guessing that MS paid for this article :)

Still, I signed up, it is about the only training I will get at our place this year, despite being expected to upgrade all our desktops to Windows 7!

Gartner...

The ones who predicted that we would have stopped using mice by now, and that Vista would be the last major version of Windows?

What about the rocket??

If they can get the shuttle to orbit, can they get the Lego City Rocket (3366) to to the moon? I for one want to see them try.

Please no.

Surely the device has encryption anyway doesn't it? Good is truly awful..

"So, the world's climate is changing.."

Wow, that sounds like a bit of an admission from you Lewis. Did you get hit by a big plank over the weekend or something?

The characters are all the same size??

Still, it looks good :) Considering the LOTR films are rated 12 though, is there not a slight mismatch between the product and the age of the target audience? Or do a lot of parents let younger kids watch the LOTR films?

So they are still melting then?

So the ice is still melting. And that is some kind of victory for those who say that it isn't? How exactly?

Skylon, why not?

Given the huge stacks of money wasted on other projects, why not spend it on Skylon? It has a much better chance of a return on investment, and lets face it, Skylon is a damn cool name.

Great device, wrong fruit

I still like my playbook (free for me, it is the companies). Wrong kind of fruit for the "too cool for school" crowd, but the size and UI make this a fantastic device for me.

Portable enough to stick in my coat pocket, reads my kindle books, plays my movies, plays my music, lets me read my gmail (either via the app, or the browser), and has a proper browser.

Good enough for me.

People really should try one before knocking it.