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Agreed - its a stinking turd, but at least it's not oscommerce :)

I think its a naive attempt at describing worker processes and application scope. if you have a worker process per endpoint which is common with .net apps and lots of endpoints, its quite hard to balance resources. This is true. In PHP, none of this is of consequence.

Now I've got a tiny (280mb deployable, 5 hosts, 37 application pools, 5000 in flight requests 24/7) behemoth on my hands and I can testify its an arse pain to manage resources.

Th problem is whatever you do you're locked into an ecosystem of some sort. Even open source software. Have you tried building a portable c program on windows, Linux and OSX? Java is the least painless thing but we all know that's just another ecosystem.

The bit people forget is: stop procrastinating and build some shit.

To be honest, most people really don't give a shit. The next cigarette or pay day is far more important. Perhaps I'm getting old, but there are more important things to worry about.

Businesses do go to war regularly against nations. Its pretty much how the mineral, precious stone and oil industries work.

Afghanistan looks like a useless chunk of dirt until you dig some holes.

If Microsoft did it, I'd probably laugh a bit at the irony simply because its how the EU operate.

Well what do you expect them to do?

I think they would be batshit insane to do otherwise.

Are you serious?

I wrote an x86 NT utility back in 1996 on NT4 (with no service packs). It still executes and works perfectly on an x64 Windows 8 machine.

That's a mere 17 years ago.

There are two APIs now. The old one isn't going away either.

This is welcome news. At least they are listening to people these days.

Yes but Microsoft activation can make than damn hard if they want to.

Actually this is not true on windows phone 8 and windows RT. The only requirement is that you use the native API which means the browser back end will need to be ported to it.

This may be or may not be hard work.

Seriously you can turn all that on if you want. My keyboard has a volume control.

And use PowerShell ISE as your command line.

Agree with this. Surface RT is painful. Especially office.

Same thing, but I dislike Windows 8 in the same way I hated the bad bits of vista. I'll live with it if my ThinkPad dies big time though. The concept is really good but the execution is a bit clunky.

I'm quite happy with the tiles concept. In fact I'm typing this on a Lumia 820...

Windows Blue I imagine will iron out these issues. I have some hopes that it will be the next windows 7.

Never had that problem!

I can't tell the difference in speed between a 2007 Lenovo T61 and a 2010 MBP.

Works fine for apps. Windows 8 actually makes distinction between documents, apps and settings.

Which is still an issue for a lot of people who depend on them.