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Congrats.  Say goodbye to good nights sleep.   When you goto Build (if you are allowed to go still) you will probably be looking forward to sleeping more than the tech sessions.    My 3 kids are grown up and you realize how much you can miss the times when they were tiny and helpless.

@cbae: Good point.  They should have struck a deal where both could keep on making money.  Now Samsung is going to sue Apple for 4G LTE.   It keeps going like any war. 

The problem is greed and overblown egos.   Then you have enablers like the attorneys who want to make their money.  In the end a compromise is the only solution.  Samsung is just too big to take what the court decides in one particular case.   Apple will be cutting a deal soon.   Also,  the Apple story is going to get old and another Iphone does not improve that much on the old one.  It is becoming a commodity.  Samsung knows how to engineer the device and that is worth alot too.  Apple gets credit for some of the ideas but not all of them.  In the end I see a cross license deal.  Samsung pays some money but not over 1 billion.

So last year at Build they give away a Samsung Intel Tablet and now they will give away a Microsoft RT Tablet made by LG and a Samsung Windows 8 phone.   Only thing left is to give away the XBox 720 with windows 8 to top it off and get all the developers rolling.

@wkempf: You have this absolutely correct. 

There is a reality here that takes over when you have a patent and want to take on a GE or Microsoft etc.   These big corporations will flood you with legal paper and counterclaims.  Their whole purpose is to drain you financially so you have no money left after paying legal fees.   It takes so long to sue someone that time is not on your side either.     The only hope for the little guy is to be ignored or get bought out.    The patent system does NOT work for the guy with an idea anymore. 

This reminds me of when they made booze illegal and we started to have bootleggers making their own booze.  

Eventually Microsoft will put that start button back in.   Just because they did not put it in even as an option shows some arrogance I dont understand.   These guys on top get egos and think they can control outcomes to their liking.   It wont work.   The good news is new markets get created to fill the need.  Its not just Microsoft and some of its Execs but happens at Apple and Oracle etc.

But after all these speculations, I really want to see DevDiv finished the Win8 wave and continue with their own adventures for projects survived the Sinofsky reset.

Exactly what I look forward to.   Lots of developers all up in fear about Win 8 but cooler heads prevail and move technology forward again and not backwards.  

@felix9:Maybe Mary Jo Foley has the inside scoop.   I would think something will leak soon.

So with Nokia announcing their Windows 8 phone in September,  I am thinking the guys and gals going to build will get a tablet (WinRT) and the new Nokia windows 8 phone.   On top of that the XBox 720 will also be distributed.  Microsoft is tired of Google out doing them and is going all out.  i cannot give out my sources but if you were lucky enough to get in Build things are looking good!

I like it on my tablet that I received from last years build but like many others it does not work well on my laptop.  Windows 8 will work well for new phones and tablets to compete with Apple.   I am pretty sure that once this is done, Microsoft will address the desktop and LOB apps etc.  

If you dont like it dont buy it.   Thats the best way to show your frustration.  Its not like Microsoft makes automobiles and cannot turn on a dime when it has to.   Its just software and they will do what makes sense to make money.

I have to agree that http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/ is nicely done.   Nice find.