@Platypus Man: it's faster, can install addons without restart since their introduction, an individual tab does not take down the browser, it's always responsive even after hours with 100ds of tabs, releases all memory of each tab as it goes. it renders all sort of html5 and css3 very well, and understands all the…

@Joe: that is no choice. you talk about all or nothing. that's no choice. i want choice on HOW, and WHERE, and who i trust.

it's no niche at all. esp. on a mobile phone, tablet, or laptop. it's not pornmode, it's shared-user-mode. it's about "can i quickly check my mail, can i quickly check my facebook, can i, can i??!" and you can say yes, start 'pornmode', let the user use it's logons, do it's stuff, and then you just close, and return…

@Joe: while your point is well and right, you completely moved away from my point: why should i HAVE TO trust an arbitary capitalistic company sitting in the united states of america for my personal data?

@Justin: while typing facebook it suggests facebook.com to go there directly. for diaspora it suggests joindiaspora.com directly.

@Joe: no. at least i have a choice, where. i can have it on a hosting service i trust, a home server, a server of a friend, of the company i work on, etc. at least somewhere in my country, or the continent i life on.

@Dhaman: especially it sounds like a really bad disease.. :)

@Marand: indeed. compromised system = lost allready. but the windows firewall is all about protecting from getting compromised (and that's why it's inbound only by default), and thus a nice helper tool (similar to uac. once something's admin, you're doomed anyways if it goes wrong). the trick is ALWAYS to prevent the…

@Marand: it could theoretically happen AFTER encryption, but i think it would need two encryptions to make THAT secure, then. else the allready encrypted but not verified client could then spy the rest while waiting for verification.

@wanderingrabbi: no, you can see the mac addresses while they search for a network afaik. so you would have to wait for the user to turn on the laptop. before it connects, it should show up the mac. not SURE i am, that is..

@Marand: i know, that's why the /sarkasm is at the end.

and we go through the same windows pcs once had to go trough, again.. hope all the others are ready for the big continuous efforts it needs to make your stuff really secure. it's big work on microsofts side since years. and while they got much better at it, there's never 100%, there's never "done".

@Arggh! there goes a...snake a snake!: at first, i laughted. then i noticed, indeed, gizmodo COULD be a good movie :)

@infmom: no. i don't do that. but i know that the people making the change surely thought about it, had some idea in mind on how it's ment to help you use your pc more quickly, more simply, more easily.

@TomXP411: no cpu is doing anything while playing back bluray, so you're obviously still not having a clue. my cpu is never doing anything, watching bluray, watching hdtv, even playing older games. (and that's the core2duo, not the i5).

mac filtering is great. no one can change the mac adress. /sarkasm

@TomXP411: uhm, we're not talking about your cheapest netbook solution here. we're talking about ordinary real desktops. i have an i5 and it's gpu delivers VERY well. i have core2duos and their onboard gpu's serve my media center very well. the next generation will serve all 2d and 3d needs even better.

@SacredByte: uhm, the new startmenu is all about not needing to click around, but being fully controllable by keyboard, too. much faster than the old one.

@infmom: i prefer efficiency, too, which is WHY I USE THE NEW START MENU.

@Kaiser-Machead v.2.1.2: then again, if all scheduled tv crap gets scheduled on the internet, too, why should i go to the tv anymore? win-win :) (not that i WOULD actually watch tv..)