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In the future, webRequest will only be able to read network requests, not modify them.

They're doing it to increase browser speed. How wonderful of them. It's not like you *have* to install extensions that use this feature or anything. And most/all of their clones will follow suit.

In The Future, I guess I won't be using Chrome-ish. Lynx, here I come! (Or maybe not.)

DO NOT DISABLE DEFRAG

"Configure defrag if you have an HDD. Completely disable defrag if you have an SSD. (it should be done by the OEM, but, check nonetheless)"

WINDOWS 7 AND UP HAVE MORE INTELLIGENT DEFRAG THAT DO NOT DO WHAT YOU THINK IT DOES WITH SSD DRIVES

The MFT WILL logically fragment over time, and there is a MAXIMUM level of fragmentation that the NTFS MFT can handle, at which point it will cease functioning properly (read-only, writes fail, etc)

Other OSes solve this in different ways, but all have similar issues.

Also, disabling defrag STOPS TRIM runs!

DO NOT "OPTIMIZE" SSDS

https://www.howtogeek.com/2568...

More in depth technical info about what windows defrag actually does on SSDs: https://www.hanselman.com/blog...

it's just like disabling services on modern windows - 99.9999999999% time, it hurts perf, doesn't increase it

Also, from a security perspective, for 20k workstations at a federal contractor, we use Edge as the default and only have it invoke IE for compat modes (we also provide chrome and firefox, but due to the extra exploit mitigation technologies in Edge we're forcing any links spawned from email/applications to open in edge first)

example of exploits mitigated by edge/win10 : https://blogs.technet.microsof...

The current situation is as I described

So, in your mind, what is .Net Core then? Scott Hanselmann is a Microsoft developer and evangelist, he works on the Microsoft Web platform. Here's an article he wrote when the Microsoft Team decided to change the name of the .Net Framework version 5 to .Net Core 1.0. So, yes, according to Microsoft, the .Net Core supersedes the .Net Framework, but Microsoft will, and must, maintain the Windows specific version of the .Net Framework.

.Net Core is the .Net Framework. It was created to do two main things, tidy up stuff and go cross platform. This was the main goals from the start. It supersedes the version 4 (the fact that it was originally named .Net Framework 5.0 should be a hint). Microsoft called .Net Core .Net Framework 5 until the first release candidate. Renaming it to .Net Core is one of those things that development organizations do every now and then. I am sorry that your religious hatred is so important to you that you are incapable of using Google.

Now, as I said, it is critically important for Microsoft to maintain the legacy .Net Framework since it is Windows specific and contains features that are not easily portable to a cross-platform framework. It is still a legacy framework however, and even though it will co-exist with the new release of the .Net Framework, called .Net Core, it is not meant to be used for new application development except where the Windows specific features are required.

Where's the link to Microsoft?

A couple above. Also, you can try this which will give you a wiki that, among other things says: "ASP.NET Core is a free and open-source web framework, and the next generation of ASP.NET, developed by Microsoft and the community. It is a modular framework that runs on both the full .NET Framework, on Windows, and the cross-platform .NET Core.". Is there anything you are still wondering about? If you don't know how to use Google, please ask an adult.

Generate your own certificate, sign your scripts using the cert, and then add that certificate to your Trusted Publisher store.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/...

Or, fucking set your Execution policy to "RemoteSigned," and anything you develop locally won't have to be signed.

Or, fucking stop FUCKING WHINING ABOUT EVERYTHING.

If you don't know the answer to these questions, you DO NOT have a need to do this, and you're just bitching to bitch. I'm an infrequent and occasional PowerShell developer (e.g., it's only tangentially related to the work I do day in and day out as a Release Engineer), but I found answers to this question with exactly 50 seconds of fucking web searching.

Jesus christ.

I mean seriously... M$ is doing a great job on that... check here:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/...

Oh?

Powershell not only has caught up these days to shells

For OS X, I don't know about defrag at all, but I do know that Apple has been late to add TRIM support. Right now (as of 10.10.4) I believe you still have to run a shell command to enable it, or did as of January this year, and more complete support is expected with El Capitan.

Windows 7 (and later) had TRIM supported added via Windows Update back in 2010, but it was disabled by default in most cases (the bios must be using AHCI mode, which was less common then). There have been updates since both from Windows and OEM manufacturers that make it much more likely to be enabled today. Generally, Windows does the right thing here. Additionally, Windows is smart enough to know the difference between an SSD and an HDD and won't try to background-defrag SSDs very much (see here: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/...)

I don't know of any **mature** file system designs that are explicitly optimized for SSDs from day 1, but I'll be surprised if one isn't in development.

This is more of a Linux thing, Windows users are mostly locked to the OS-provided console UI, but there are a couple apps out there. I used Console2 for a bit, which has a bunch of features over a standard Console window, then I found ConEmu which is what I like to use now. I configured it to work like a Quake-style console which is fun and easily accessible.

That page does not list these two cookies:

mbox=session#1440619645928-786416#1440611516;
QSI_HistorySession=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.danskebank.dk%2Fda-dk%2FPrivat%2FPages%2FPrivat.aspx~1440619560049

It's clearly ASP.NET, and WebForms. The dump is the Request.ServerVariables collection, and if you need to debug issues it's fairly standard. If you need to put it in production code, though, you always put it on a server that your load balancer will skip, because that should not be seen, at all, by anyone.

But how would you get someone else's session? It's impossible.

Scott Hanselman has one suggestion as to how it might happen, and it's 100% code errors.

There's a comment there "You just found the famous TLS bug :)" So maybe not impossible. Windows uses Thread Local Storage to store things like static variables. The thread handling the request might change, and ASP.NET properly sets the .NET Thread data (and HttpContext data for MVC applications) every time it processes an event so it should all line up. But, static variables are thread-locked, so they can transfer between request handlers. That's the TLS Bug referenced there. It is possible to access someone else's session data if it is stored in TLS (static variable is one possibility).

So, this is not "a lot of crying over nothing" - it could be very serious. Having said all of that, it is very unlikely that you would see someone else's information consistently with that bug - it might show up once and go away.

Two weeks after I initially found this critical vulnerability, I took the time to find a way to report it to them (on August 26).

HTTP_SOPSESMTTS = 2015-08-26-20.03.26.132946
HTTP_SOPTID = 2015-08-26-22.07.44.322171

If this were replay data for load tests or unit tests, it's unlikely that the dates would be the same as when it was reported. The user admits altering some of the data, so we can't draw concrete conclusions there.

A security professional wouldn't draw attention to *possible* leakage of Basic Auth, because that's really unlikely at the SSL interface behind a username/password login. At least a knowledgeable one, I think.

If the IP address were a load balancer, the User agent should have matched what the user expected. Dynamic content hosted by a CDN/edge provider? If the data changed, it's probably dynamic. So, what is the conclusion?

I don't know, but it doesn't sound like something that can be dismissed so nonchalantly. If users were getting each others' sessions, we would likely have heard about it, since it happened for two weeks. That's the only thing I can conclude, but that supposes that the news would have made it to international press.

Remember Silverlight? The "Flash Killer", it was an excellent toolkit for writing distributed applications quickly. Performance was excellent. Many big names "bet the farm" on it. Until Microsoft walked away from it, too.

In favor of HTML5. Its funny how the tables turn as soon as Microsoft does something, now pushing open standards in favor of proprietary blobs is a bad thing. They pushed Silverlight until HTML5 was capable then stopped supporting it and released it as open source.

Remember Windows Phone 7? The next big thing (tm) and they ditched it, for WP8, and all the devs were screwed. Again.

Please explain why you believe "devs were screwed", here is the experience documented by an actual dev.

Why is the XBox 360 not compatible with the original XBox?

Because the 360 has a completely different architecture to the original. This is not something new in the console world, developers want to write games specifically tailored to the hardware using architecture-specific strategies. The hardware improvement between the consoles was not enough to fully emulate the original XBox hardware in software on the new console.

Why is the XBox "One" not compatible with the XBox 360?

For the same reasons as above, however they have manage to get enough performance out of an emulation layer of sorts to be able to do backwards compatibility, it just requires the permission of the developer for distribution reasons. This is made easier since much of the games of today rely on GPU programming and while the GPU architecture is improved in the more recent console it has an AMD chip that shares many of the underlying subtleties with the AMD GPU used in its predecessor.

With every console generation, MS has been screwing the developers.

If you write software that depends on specific hardware obviously you can't expect that software to work when the hardware is different...duh!

My understanding is that there isn't a direct relation between what's being read from the sensor and what is actually in the blood. The glucose sensor just senses the amount of glucose in the blood. So if it gives a reading of x, and then gives a dose of y units of insulin to counteract, it doesn't know that you're going to start running in 1 minute which will decrease the glucose levels further than it expected to based on the amount of insulin delivered. So, now you're going to be low on glucose. The only way to do that is to add glucose to the blood. Assuming this system does this, it can bring the blood sugar back up. However, it also doesn't know about the chocolate bar you just ingested which will again add glucose to your system in the near future.

For a system like this to work, it has to make constant tiny adjustments to your insulin and glucose levels to ensure that it always remains in a certain safe zone. Scott Hanselman did a pretty good write-up a few years back. It's really kind of depressing when you look into the current state of affairs. The diabetes industry seems to be more concerned with making money than actually solving people's problems.

C# isn't as limited anymore

And it's way more generous than Java. Microsoft is promising it won't sue for anything developed on a .NET runtime. Not their .NET runtime. Any .NET runtime, even those not developed by Microsoft.

".NET Runtime" means any compliant implementation in software of (a) all of the required parts of the mandatory provisions of Standard ECMA-335 – Common Language Infrastructure (CLI); and (b) if implemented, any additional functionality in Microsoft's .NET Framework, as described in Microsoft's API documentation on its MSDN website. For example, .NET Runtimes include Microsoft's .NET Framework and those portions of the Mono Project compliant with (a) and (b).

So, basically, they're explicitly promising not to pull the shit that Oracle pulled with Google over Java. But because Microsoft killed their Pappy some people are developing elaborate conspiracy theories over how, really, their promise not to sue is somehow a bad thing.

Microsoft fully supports Node.js. See e.g. this and this.

The rest of what you said is just nonsense. Children born when the first browsers that had DHTML and allowed generation/manipulation of the DOM with javascript appeared are now graduating high school. Yes there were compatibility issues, but it definitely wasn't Node.js that solved that problem.

Node.js is just the latest virtual machine tied to a specific language. It has about the same potential to make .NET irrelevant as it has to make Java irrelevant: none.

Actually, according to Scott Hanselman who works at Microsoft, they are doing the opposite, making full featured .NET plugins for Eclipse, Sublime and even emacs and vim. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/OmniSharpMakingCrossplatformNETARealityAndAPleasure.aspx

The image does not imply an SSD.

It simply states that writing log files that are never used/read/etc will wear an SSD OR slow down a mechanical disk by fragmenting it.

Also, Windows will defrag an SSD once a month:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/...

1. Unlike previous versions, in this OS, you have to have a hotmail/live/outlook.com account to do the first step - logging in. Something that wasn't required in Windows 7. I had a Nokia Lumia Phone previously and had no issues w/ that, but the requirements are different. In Windows Phone 8, having that profile enabled me to just transfer everything to a new phone if needed.

No. You don't. There's any number of ways to configure it not to require a Microsoft Login.
Here's the steps with screenshots:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/...

I agree its stupid and designed to lead you into creating/usding a Microsoft account, but its trivially easy to bypass.

2. The apps ain't much different either. Contacts - w/ phone#, just like in Windows Phone? Are they retarted - this is a PC. Yeah, one can Skype, but there's a separate Skype app for that. Doesn't need a separate Contacts list

How is this a "problem".don't use contacts. Right click on it, unpin it from your start screen. Done. That said, for people who drank the MS kool-aid and bought a phone and signed in with their MS Live account -- easy automatic sync from phone to PC to Tablet ... etc. Is it useful? To someone probably, to me? Not at all, but I don't use the MS calculator app either, but I don't go around complaining about it.

3. Weather - see #2. On a phone, it makes sense. On this, how is it any better than the sidebar that Vista had? Oh, and now PCs/laptops, like phones, want my permission to determine my location. Naah-ah!!!

See number 2 above. Really, you are complaining about the selection of bundled freebie apps? Weather is at least marginally useful, its the ONE tile I let be "live" on the start screen on my HTPC.

4. When you do log into Windows, you are confronted w/ the Metro screen. Yeah, you can install Classic shell, like I did, but that won't change that.

8.1 lets you boot directly to the desktop if you prefer. Its simple setting change.

5. For me, the last straw was that my palms would rest on the trackpad, and while typing, sometimes the charms bar on the right would pop up, along w/ a network panel somewhere in the south west of my screen, inviting me to enable the wi-fi or whatever. It's irritating if you are in the middle of something else & are forced to tap the trackpad to get rid of it

Agreed. Hot corners are stupid. I hate them too. You can disable a couple of them in 8.1, but (last I heard at least) you can't completely turn them off without 3rd party utility/hacks.

Following this, I decided to bite the bullet and install PC-BSD, a DVD of which I had gotten some days ago

Here we go...

I initially had some issues, since it wouldn't recognize either my mouse nor the wi-fi. So I had to get another mouse, and an ethernet cable, and then disable UEFI, and then install it

Sounds like a clusterfuck to me.

Of course, I'd be happier once FreeBSD/PC-BSD supports Wi-Fi on this laptop.

The last straws for windows 8.1 was the charms bar, and a weather app you didn't need, but apparently network support is only a "nice to have"? Get real.

Typing however is a charm, since PC-BSD doesn't recognize the trackpad, so it never comes in the way and I don't need touchfreeze or anything like it.

You realize you can turn your trackpad off in windows too right? You don't need touch freeze, you can disable it outright in device manager. Not to mention other options depending on the trackpad.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/... azure storage comes with a cdn AND you can process / transform uploads with very little boilerplate using WebJobs. See the link for a code example.

One (slightly obtuse) solution for this is to run Visual Studio on a remote machine, and connect to is with Remote Desktop. You can even install Visual Studio on an Azure instance if you're so inclined, and connect to that. Not the best of solutions, but certainly a somewhat decent work around. Personally, I still do all my development on a real desktop, but for portable computing, the Surface fits me just fine.

Does iCloud let you provision a Linux VM server in minutes?

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/content/binary/Windows-Live-Writer/550abded8a10_CEC4/image_17.png

Perhaps you're thinking of Skydrive.

From Scott Hanselman, who actually depends on this sort of stuff to stay alive:

"It's WAY too early to call this Insulin Pump an Artificial Pancreas"

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ItsWAYTooEarlyToCallThisInsulinPumpAnArtificialPancreas.aspx

Read the article, it is very interesting and he makes some very compelling arguments as to why this is a bit too much hype...

Check out this Hanselman blog post for a way to do it:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CDNsFailButYourScriptsDontHaveToFallbackFromCDNToLocalJQuery.aspx

Also, some discussion on SO:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5257923/how-to-load-local-script-files-as-fallback-in-cases-where-cdn-are-blocked-unavai

Not only that, but there's a lot of other problems with quality of life when you're a diabetic. Scott Hanselman (has a podcast, works for Microsoft) has mentioned a few times that when he travels the world he ends up eating at Subway all the time, because it's the only place you have a really good idea of how the meal is going to affect your blood sugar. Imagine going to a foreign country and not being able to eat any of the local cuisine because you don't know if it's going to send you into a coma. It's like being a vegan, except that breaking the rules means that you end up getting sick. Vegans can usually find something to eat at almost any restaurant. But for people with diabetes, it can be quite difficult to eat at a lot of restaurants, especially non-chain restaurants as they usually don't have any nutritional information (nor are they required to).

That's rubbish. Type 1 Diabetics can easily eat the local cuisine. All we need to do is to take a smaller dose before the meal, then test soon after the meal and add a corrective bolus. I eat different food every day and travel extensively and have no problem. You don't need to restrict yourself to a limited range of food unless you want to - and if so, don't blame the diabetes for that.

Not only that, but there's a lot of other problems with quality of life when you're a diabetic. Scott Hanselman (has a podcast, works for Microsoft) has mentioned a few times that when he travels the world he ends up eating at Subway all the time, because it's the only place you have a really good idea of how the meal is going to affect your blood sugar. Imagine going to a foreign country and not being able to eat any of the local cuisine because you don't know if it's going to send you into a coma. It's like being a vegan, except that breaking the rules means that you end up getting sick. Vegans can usually find something to eat at almost any restaurant. But for people with diabetes, it can be quite difficult to eat at a lot of restaurants, especially non-chain restaurants as they usually don't have any nutritional information (nor are they required to).

You chose Java. Do you prefer back doors?

C# has T4 templates that allow you to use C# to write C# code. Think about that with regard to LINQ, database model generation, and reflection. It's very powerful if you install intellisense support. Without that, you'll go insane because it's hard to otherwise make sense of where the generated code starts and your template ends.

I just wish Windows had something as nice as Time Machine on OSX.

File History is Microsoft's new Backup and Restore replacement in Windows 8...from what I understand it is like Shadow Copy used in earlier windows, but more at an entire volume level. This is what I read about it and it seems painless enough for parents: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Windows8Step0TurnOnContinuousBackupsViaFileHistory.aspx

Visual Studio 2010 was awesome. Visual Studio 2012 is a sea of all caps menus, grey and such a minute dash of colour that makes partially sighted people like me wonder if they hallucinated it or got up too fast...

Seriously MS, fix it, along with the Coal Bunker/Snow Blindness colour schemes. I am not on a beach in Malibu, or the cockpit of a B2 on a bombing mission FFS!

You know you can change the color and font scheme with an extension?
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/YourColorfulVisualStudio2012WithTheColorThemeEditorVS2010ColorsToo.aspx

Libertarians are just as guilty of that and far more obnoxious about it. That's why people don't like you. For example Scott Hanselman posted on Google+ that he couldn't get healthcare because of a pre-existing condition and within hours there were libertarians all over the thread quoting Thomas Jefferson at him and trying to tell him that the system was fine because anything else would be communism.

Sometimes you guys need to try a bit of empathy instead of being endlessly selfish and unbending. Yes we all know our governments are broken, however looking at how broken most of the world's governments are I'm pretty happy with mine. I don't have to bribe anyone, I don't have armed militias driving me out of my home, I can read and write, I live in a country where getting sick doesn't carry a huge financial penalty and the roads that I use to get to work are tarmac and regularly maintained.

Haven't run into any Unity3D, have they made anything i might have heard of?

Unity3D is an engine. But of course there is also the extremely popular Steam platform which is much higher visibility and even high profile titles like Neverwinter Nights. And of course thousands of small utilities all over the net for various things.

One of the first things i do after installing the new hardware is to see if any of their software needs updating and frankly i have yet to see one since i quit including .NET by default come back with .NET installed in programs and features, I just haven't.

Your anecdotal evidence does not seem typical, not to mention the .Net framework is installed by default on any >= Vista install anyway and isn't in Programs and Features and can only be 'turned off' (but not really uninstalled) using the Turn Windows features on and off.
There is this statistic which comes from things like Windows Update telemetry and represents the percentage of Windows PCs that use Windows Update that have .Net installed.
Alternatively there is the statistics from the DriverGuide visitors but they are over 18 months old now.

And of course Mono comes on Ubuntu installs by default too as many apps have a dependency on it.

VS itself is also growing "more free" as time goes by. On one hand, there's web edition of VS Express, which is slowly growing in features that were previously only available in paid editions - in v11 it's (finally) going to get unit testing, for example. And then there's also the free WebMatrix, which basically tries to steal the "no-framework PHP" cake.

It's not just developers and managers as groups. Remember, that these days Microsoft is a huge organisation and is full of many different divisions. There's Windows, Office, XBox, Windows Phone etc. amongst many others.

The guys that are responsible for this move are the "Web Dev Div", who are a sub-group within the "Developer Division".

It contains many people, including guys like Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack (who recently left to join GitHub) etc., who have always done things that don't seem very Microsoft-like, like releasing ASP.NET MVC as an open-source product - albeit one that didn't accept outside contributions - back in 2009 along with such moves as bundling things like the open source jQuery library with Visual Studio and openly committing improvements back to the core project without trying the usual embrace, extend, extinguish tactics.

Within certain parts of Microsoft, they can, have done, and are continuing to do some very interesting, worthwhile and generally community-friendly (and not-so-evil) work.

That's already possible, if you are using vhd images.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/LessVirtualMoreMachineWindows7AndTheMagicOfBootToVHD.aspx

Here.

Lots of interesting comments there, and yet MS keeps fueling the fire.
HTML(5)/JS is still too much work compared with SL for LOB apps.

I don't see SL going away any time soon.

> Google Chrome opens one process per tab? That's a new one for me - I could have sworn it used threads, not processes.

Wrong: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftIE8AndGoogleChromeProcessesAreTheNewThreads.aspx

And it got WORSE after tiny usb thumb drives get popular.
With the standard old plug you have to force to plug in up-side-down. These tiny fucking drives just slip in either way effortlessly.
Now the 1st thing I ever check with lusers usb problem is always their plugin orientation.

iTunes on Windows can be very difficult to use. Some people find it easier to use C# to fix issues with their music library then work directly in iTunes.

We have to be patient with the big dinosaurs. Word travels slowly inside such a large company.

1 June 2001, Ballmer's legendary comment, "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works."

From the comments in TFA, 8 April 2002 - FUD from Juan Gonzalez, General Manager of Microsoft Peru gets shot down in flames by Congressman Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez

20 February 2003, David Stutz, retiring group program manager, "delivered a kick in the pants to his former employer" saying "Microsoft is in danger of being swept away by open source"

12 May 2004, Windows Template Library (and Windows Installer XML) posted to sourceforge. The blogosphere reels in shock. Even slashdot isn't sure what to think.

I got bored at this point, but there's lots more popcorn-hour fun and games as this large corporation tries to deal with a rapidly changing industry.

• Baby smash!
  As babies smash on the keyboard, colored shapes, letters and numbers appear on the screen. Baby Smash will lock out the Windows Key, as well as Ctrl-Esc and Alt-Tab so your baby can't get out of the application. Pressing ALT-F4 will exit the application and Shift-Ctrl-Alt-O brings up the options dialog.

Baby Smash!
It doesn't perform too well and it isn't exactly the most scintillating app in the word, but it prevents* your kiddo from deleting all your files with a random mash of the keys.

* Sometimes, despite the claims of the author, smashing the keyboard will minimize the app, leaving your computer vulnerable to infant shenanigans. Does not happen very often, though.

I've been using BabySmash! from http://www.hanselman.com/babysmash/ with my 7 month old since she was around 2 months old.

She can press any key on the keyboard to get sounds and shapes/letters. She absolutely loves it.

I'm now looking for software that is slightly more advanced, but there seems to be a lack of games in this age range...

Scott Hanselman has a couple of posts that are very similar to what you're looking for and easy to setup.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VirtualCamaraderieAPersistentVideoPortalForTheRemoteWorker.aspx
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SkypingTheWifeFoolproofVideoConferencingWithYourFamilyWhileOnTheRoad.aspx

Scott Hanselman has a couple of posts that are very similar to what you're looking for and easy to setup.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VirtualCamaraderieAPersistentVideoPortalForTheRemoteWorker.aspx
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SkypingTheWifeFoolproofVideoConferencingWithYourFamilyWhileOnTheRoad.aspx

Actually Scott Hanselman has a better option using Skype and a dedicated PC he uses to talk to his family at home.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SkypingTheWifeFoolproofVideoConferencingWithYourFamilyWhileOnTheRoad.aspx

Doesn't take much to set up and would probably get one most of the way there.

Here is some info: Building an Embodied Social Proxy or Crazy Webcam Remote Cart Thing

Check out the HP MediaSmart server. Agreed, it is not linux powered, but hey, 52W is pretty good right ? Here's some statistics (I googled and found this link) available: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PowerConsumptionOfTheHPMediaSmartHPHomeServer.aspx -Venkat

Not as bad as Scott Hanselman saying I'm going to Google that on Bing. Can't remember what the date was, but he said it on his podcast.

word from the inside that one of the effects this could have will be Microsoft employees being allowed to use open-source software internally, along with the ability to contribute to said projects under this CodePlex Foundation

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftCreatesTheCodePlexFoundation.aspx

1. Installation. You do have to decide with Snow Leopard if you want to upgrade or clean install--it's just that normally that decision is suggested for you. Anybody competent enough to be upgrading their operating system should know that typically, inserting the disk while booted will start an OS upgrade, and booting from the disk will allow a clean install. There's also no mention in this section of the fact that of course Snow Leopard won't have any driver issues; Apple has a limited set of hardware to work with, while Microsoft has to deal with everything. I think Microsoft's solution of installing basic drivers, then getting the correct ones through Windows Update, is a lot better than the alternative of installing most or all of the possible drivers you might need, bloating your installation a several GB.

As much as I hate to say it, I'd give that category to Apple simply because Windows 7 will refuse to upgrade from XP. This means that, while you can salvage some documents, a Windows XP to Windows 7 upgrade involves reinstalling all your applications.

Of course, I can't just give this category to Apple without mentioning that upgrading from OSX 10.4 to 10.6 using the $29 upgrade disk breaks the EULA on it, even though it will work.

You should check out this comment that Scott Hanselman posted about the other day:

        At this point, I'd like to take a moment to speak to you about the Adobe PSD format.
        PSD is not a good format. PSD is not even a bad format. Calling it such would be an
        insult to other bad formats, such as PCX or JPEG. No, PSD is an abysmal format. Having
        worked on this code for several weeks now, my hate for PSD has grown to a raging fire
        that burns with the fierce passion of a million suns.
        If there are two different ways of doing something, PSD will do both, in different
        places. It will then make up three more ways no sane human would think of, and do those
        too. PSD makes inconsistency an art form. Why, for instance, did it suddenly decide
        that *these* particular chunks should be aligned to four bytes, and that this alignement
        should *not* be included in the size? Other chunks in other places are either unaligned,
        or aligned with the alignment included in the size. Here, though, it is not included.
        Either one of these three behaviours would be fine. A sane format would pick one. PSD,
        of course, uses all three, and more.
        Trying to get data out of a PSD file is like trying to find something in the attic of
        your eccentric old uncle who died in a freak freshwater shark attack on his 58th
        birthday. That last detail may not be important for the purposes of the simile, but
        at this point I am spending a lot of time imagining amusing fates for the people
        responsible for this Rube Goldberg of a file format.
        Earlier, I tried to get a hold of the latest specs for the PSD file format. To do this,
        I had to apply to them for permission to apply to them to have them consider sending
        me this sacred tome. This would have involved faxing them a copy of some document or
        other, probably signed in blood. I can only imagine that they make this process so
        difficult because they are intensely ashamed of having created this abomination. I
        was naturally not gullible enough to go through with this procedure, but if I had done
        so, I would have printed out every single page of the spec, and set them all on fire.
        Were it within my power, I would gather every single copy of those specs, and launch
        them on a spaceship directly into the sun.

        PSD is not my favourite file format.

Sorry, I meant processes, my bad.

I thought each new user opened window/tab was a new process.

Although it appears that "New tabs spawned from a web page, however, are usually opened in the same process".