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Wow, Paul's so much better than Max... you should have him every week

It was a new editor, I had the same reaction and it won't happen again (I hope).

Excellent points and good logic.  FYI: the figures I mentioned are from the article.

I watched myself while trying to put myself in your shoes and you all are right... I'm coming off too marketing-like.  My apologies, fellow niners.

To the point about bias, however, I really do believe in using the best technology for you.  So while the iPhone is not for me, I will never deny its absolutely superior web browsing capabilities.  And I will even admit here in this public forum that I prefer GMail due to its simplicity and integrated chat that many of my friends can often be found using.

I am a technology enthusiast first, a Microsoft employee second, and Charles' friend third.

That's really a question of how you prefer your browser should behave on the first load... are you looking for instant content or a quick load with the ability to find something else?

If it's the former, MSN makes sense... the latter, live.com.  But hey, you obviously know what you're doing and change the homepage quickly to what you like, so BOOM good on you .

I live mesh sync my entire OneNote notebooks folder to my desktop... works like a champ! 

1) Scarily, that's BEFORE her coffee.
2) You want an answer here or in the next episode?
3) All hail IE8's "in private" surfing mode
4) Quite often a debate heard amongst 'softies... the reality is we're a volume company that builds platform (most of the time... since yeah we do the Zune and Xbox, but those are different).  So we build Windows for a plethora of PCs rather than our own custom one.  And Windows Mobile runs on more types of devices than you can shake a stick at.  Is it annoying at times? Yes.  Does it have room for improvement? Absolutely.  But we do always trend in the positive direction...

The super unofficial answer: if we made our own phone, what would stop hardware manufacturers from getting peeved and using an alternative OS?

I don't know whether to be glad you guys pay so much attention, or....... well, I'll just be glad.

Hah, thanks!

I can't believe I read that whole thing.

Now I'd like some ice cream.