I'm waiting for the 1TB version (black, with BlueRay drive), personally.

Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro.

Please tell me there's some sort of single player campaign, or at the very least, two player co-op... I *loathe* multi-player PvP games. I don't ever want to play games with complete strangers... I tried for a while, but there's just too many damn assholes in the world. I want to either play by myself, or co-op with…

Shit, I never got SimCity 4 traffic flow to make any sense.

Think they'll spend any time making their actual simulation function? Especially with regards to pathing?

First, Windows Defender and MSE are among the best out there. And second, it's far more than just those... the OS is far more locked down, with a lot more inherent security built in... and better, more secure default settings.

There was a very good reason to dump Areo... first, it was starting to look dated and silly, and second, all that processing of transparency and gradients and drop-shadows used CPU and degraded battery life. Windows 8 is highly optimized top to bottom to make laptop and tablet batteries last longer.

What a douche.

Frustrated with the great many video games that used cutscenes rather than gameplay mechanics to tell their stories

"Soda" is a white powder used in baking.

No, Windows 8 doesn't "suck" because it requires training. EVERYTHING new requires training. That doesn't mean it sucks.

You didn't read very carefully.

As others have said... make sure you have Windows Update configured to update all Microsoft software, not just Windows... and then run Windows Update over and over (rebooting in between as necessary) until there are no more updates to apply.

No, there really isn't a valid reason. It's mostly ignorant fools bashing what they don't understand. I know this for a fact, because I had several coworkers who bashed Windows 8 constantly... until the office upgraded everyone from Win7 to Win 8.1. After I gave a one hour training/orientation, everyone upgrade,…

There are two feature removals that really annoyed the hell out of me (and still do):

... you're being sarcastic, right?

LifeHacker itself rebukes you:

It works fine.

I was thinking it was smart-glass... draw on the glass to draw on the screen...

It was just an example.... given 50% of the world uses IE, not a bad one. :-)